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Music

Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 1  2016 25’
1)  Opening Gambit or Striving Openly
2) Yukimizake
3 & 4) Ostinato Impromptu and Fantasy in b

Divergences 2015 8’
String orchestra

This Point Forward 2012  8’
Premiered by the Chicago Composer’s Orchestra
American Prize Finalist

Choral

Named Nameless  2006  25’
SATB, flute, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, strings
1) In the Wide World
2) Dao ke Dao
3) Yosis Olayich

Vocal Music

Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 2016 6′
Mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, piano

Three Songs  2013 10’
Mezzo-soprano and string quartet
1) Ativan
2) Game
3) You’ve Come Back to Me

The Way to Hell 2008  4’
Mezzo-soprano and piano

Songs of Love and Transience 2007  15’
Mezzo-soprano and piano
1) Prelude
2) Ditty of First Desire
3) The Moon Appears
4) Silence
5) Madrigal
6) Song of Departing Day

Five Haiku  1999   12’
Mezzo-soprano and piano
1) The Traffic Light
2) Walking
3) April Light
4) Pouring Rain
5) Quiet and Still

Chamber Music

Ecstatic Fury 2020 5′
Cello Quartet

Clouds Over Tallinn 2019 6′
2 flutes, bassoon, double bass, electric guitar

Useless Machines for Thinking, Dreaming, Feeling 2019 10′
Clarinet, violin, cello
1) Blue Angel
2) Crimson Dream
3) Mind Fire

Daughters of the Moon 2019 5′
Clarinet, violin, cello

Urbanisms 2019 13′
Bari sax, elec. guitar, violin, double bass
1) Nonomon
2) Fade to Grey
3) Toxic Grace

Uplift 2019 6′
Clarinet, violin, viola, cello

Adrift 2018 5’
Electric guitar and piano

Marginal Capacity 2018 5′
Cello and piano

Pas de Deux 2018 12′
Cello and piano
1) Casa Mas de Miquel
2) Melité
3) Scant, few

Striations 2018 5′
Brass Quintet

Of Leaks and Mirrors 2015 12’
Flute and percussion
1) Paracosm
2) Aridity
3) Persystemic

Inner Visions 2014 12’
Flute, clarinet, alto sax, cello
1) What We Worry About, What We Can’t Help
2) The Ascent
3) Galactic Drifter

Deep At Sea 2013 4’
Flute, clarinet, piano, marimba

Time Drips 2013 8’
Viola and piano

Momentary Moments 2012 13’
Cello and piano
1) The Thirteenth of Never
2) My Kind of Honky-Tonk Bar
3) Whitespace
4) March of Time

Three for Zhou B.  2011 12’
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello
1) Open My Door
2) Life
3) Group Dance

Intone 2009 6’
Guitar, violin, cello,

Cellphone Variations 2007 4’
Clarinet, violin, cello, bass

Fantasy on Irish Themes 2007 8’
Flute, French horn, violin, cello, piano

Signs 2006 20’
Flute, clarinet, alto sax, violin, viola, cello, piano
1) Trespassers Will Be Shot
2) Slow Children at Play
3) Speed Hump
4) God is My Co-Pilot
5) The Customer is Always Right

Sawtooth Hammer 2005 5’
Double Bass Quartet

String Quartet No. 1 2001 15’
1) Attrition
2) Veil
3) Impelled

Three Contrasting Movements for Flute, Cello and Piano 2000 10’
1) Contemplation #23
2) Loud and Fast!
3) Calm, With Waves

Dissonance Still Talking 1999 13’
Clarinet, violin, cello, piano
1) Dissonance
2) Still
3) Talking

The Numinous 1999 6’
Violin and piano

Piano Duo and Solo

Pessimistic Utterances 2015 8’
1) He’ll Raise your Taxes
2) Neuter Everyone and Let Nature Run its Course
3) New Yorkers Don’t Go Out in the Rain

Summation Piece No. 2 2010 9’
1) Short Meditation
2) Less Short Meditation
3) Return of the Son of Key Signature

Sound Advice 2004  13’
Two pianos
1) There’s No Time Like the Present
2) Look Before You Leap
3) Haste Makes Waste

Summation Piece No. 1 2000 12’
1) Mostly Cloudy
2) Hardly Tranquil
3) Reflective

‘Scapes 1999 15’
solo piano
1) Retrospection
2) People
3) Waltz Surreptitious
4) Spire, As Seen Through Early Morning Mist
5) Restless Night
6) Made in Hong Kong
7) Distant Metropolis

Six Moods for Solo Piano 1999 12’
1) Slowly, With Freedom
2) With Humor
3) At a Medium Pace
4) Lyrical, With Light Intimacy
5) Fast and Playful
6) Plaintive

Solo Instrument

Half State 2015 6’
Solo flute

Meditation for Solo Cello 2014  4’

Film and Theatrical
Devil’s Food Cake 2020 10′
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

Dreaming Grand Avenue
2019 51′
Flute, clarinet, 2 violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, percussion
Music for feature film

The Man Who Was Ill 2019 12′
Violin, cello, piano
Music for short silent film

Ageless Animals 2015 5’
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Music set to images from Chris Marker’s La Jetee

1001 Afternoons in Chicago – A Radio Play 2012 60’
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, bass, actors
I contributed 30’ minutes to  this collaborative project

The Heart of the World 2009 5’
Film by Guy Maddin
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

Manos de la Muerte 2005 20’
Film by Dave Less
Solo piano

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