His music for the ballet, Wahzhazhe: An Osage Ballet, portraying the story of the Osage people, was premiered in August 2012 in Tulsa and Bartlesville, OK and performed at the Smithsonian National Museum for the American Indian in March 2013. Symphony No. 2, Oklahoma Peoples in Trial and Triumph, which recounts the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the E.W. and Lydie Marland story, the Tulsa Race Riot, and the Dust Bowl, was premiered by the Signature Symphony and Chorale and the Cherokee National Youth Choir in November 2011. Buffalo Run, commissioned by the Tulsa Youth Symphony, was composed to celebrate the American buffalo (or bison) and their connection and essential value to the American Indian way of life, and to depict their near demise and rise again, These works are in a series of original compositions based on Oklahoma history, which also include Lonely People of the Osage, a choral setting of words by Oklahoma poet and Pawhuska native Winston Weathers, which received its New York premiere by the Gregg Smith Singers in 1994; Will Rogers Self-Portrait, for chorus and orchestra, commissioned for the Will Rogers Heritage, Inc. and the Claremore Community Chorus; Prairie Dreams, a one-act opera about pioneer Oklahoma; and Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano, depicting the Oklahoma landscape through the eyes of a native warrior, commissioned by the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association during the Oklahoma state centennial in 2007.