Chamber opera inspired by a real program that reunites families separated by immigration policies at the U.S. – Mexico border, but only for three minutes.

Based on a grandson of the Armenian Genocide searching for his roots.

Musical portraits of 5 true stories of child boat refugees. Based on the book of the same name by Mary Beth Leatherdale and Eleanor Shakespeare.

Chamber opera based on the life and work of Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti set on his last night with wife Fanni before his WWII conscription.

Narrated poem by Kareem Lotfy with string quartet about an Arab Spring refugee.

Multi-media work with media projections by Kate Duhamel based on Vandalized Doors series by sculptor Al Farrow.

Multi-media work based on the diaries of Takuichi Fujii and Kamekichi Tokita from their WWII incarceration at Minidoka Relocation Center.

Multi-media work inspired by the life of Roma painter and writer Ceija Stojka who survived three concentration camps.

Song cycle based on eye-witness accounts of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Text from a poem by Kiyoko Nagase about a mother visited by the ghost of her son lost in the atomic bombing with melodies from the film score to Nagasaki: Memories of My Son.

A two-act opera. Act one, “Krystyna,” tells the story of poet Krystyna Zywulska in Auschwitz. Act two, “Gad,” imagines the renunion of homosexuals Gad Beck and Manfred Lewin torn apart under Nazi rule in Berlin.

Chamber opera based on an imagined reunion of the ghosts of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso as they discuss culpability of artists in WWII occupied France.

Song cycle based on the poetry of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger who died at 18 in a Nazi labor camp.

Based on Wiazanka z Effektenkammer by lyricist Krystyna Zywulska written in Auschwitz.

Based on the journal of Manfred Lewin written for his lover Gad Beck, who tells his story in the film Paragraph 175.

Song cycle based on the life of writer Krystyna Zywulska from an interview in Barbara Engelking's book Holocaust and Memory.

Based on the history of Sephardic settlement at Thessaloniki and an anonymous poem from a resident who survived Auschwitz concentration camp.

Based on the story of boys at Terezín publishing a clandestine journal Vedem.

Song cycle based on the poetry of Yaakov Barzilai, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.

Based on the poetry in a notebook of Mordechai Gebirtig.

Arrangement of the song by Israeli singer Chava Alberstein based on the poem written by Pole Binem Heller for his sister, who died in Treblinka extermination camp.

A musical tribute to Schwarz’s maternal grandparents, Rudolf and Jeanette Weiss, who were murdered at a concentration camp in Riga, Latvia.

Duet between actor and singer based on the journal of Manfred Lewin written for his lover Gad Beck, who tells his story in Paragraph 175 (film).

Musical setting of poems from the Vilna Ghetto by Abraham Sutzkever.

A musical tribute to cellist David Tonkonogui, a teacher of Schwarz’s son Julian.

Musical setting of six texts by Pola Braun written in the Warsaw Ghetto and Majdanek concentration camp.

Musical setting of Holocaust related poems by Anne Ranasinghe and David Vogel that focus on father-child relationships.

Musical setting of five poems written in Sachsenhausen concentration camp compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz.

A snapshot of the pre-war world of East European Jewry, living on the edge of the abyss.