Orchestra
The Presence of Magic 2021 6′
Piano Concerto No. 1 2016 25’
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
Opera
La Jetée 2020 75′
Vocal Music
Mute Testimony 2022 6′
Baritone and piano
Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 2016 7′
Mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, piano
Songs of Perception 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) The 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
Cosmicomics 2023 60′
1) All At One Point
2) At Daybreak
3) Nothing, and Not Much
4) The Light Years
5) The Stone Sky
6) Without Colors
7) As Long as the Sun Lasts
8) Daughters of the Moon
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
On the Verge 2023 6′
Alto saxophone, electric guitar, piano
The Sorcerer 2023 9′
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, electric guitar, piano
Can’t Stop 2023 5′
Electric Guitar and piano
Don’t Look Down 2023 6′
Electric Guitar and piano
Enter Light 2022
Clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello
Hieroglyphs 2022 5′
Bass clarinet, trumpet, French horn, trombone
If It Bleeds, It Leads 2022 6′
Bass flute, bass trombone, double bass
On Motion 2022 17′
1) The Atom-Smashers
2) Basho’s Pond
3) La Cascade
Alto saxophone, piano
Hot Streak 2021 8′
Cello and piano
Sonic Walkabout 2021 4′
Flute, alto saxophone, violin, cello, piano
1) The Real World
2) Greetings from America
3) Elegy for Five Missing Floors
Home Sounds Like 2021 6′
Cello and narrator
Abstraction 2021 7′
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, vln, vla, vc, bass
The Marble Palace 2021 6’30”
Bass clarinet, violin, cello
Useless Machines for Thinking, Dreaming, Feeling 2020 12′
Bass clarinet, violin, cello
It’s Complicated 2020 2′
Clarinet and piano
Ecstatic Fury 2020 4′
Cello quartet
Uplift 2019 6′
Clarinet, violin, viola, cello
Urbanisms 2019 12′
Bari sax, guitar, bass, violin
Clouds Over Tallinn 2019 6′
2 fl, bassoon, electric guitar, double bass
Daughters of the Moon 2019 6′
Clarinet, violin, cello
Marginal Capacity 2018 4′
Cello and piano
Striations 2018 5′
Brass Quintet
Adrift 2018 5′
Electric guitar and piano
Pas de Deux 2017 10′
Cello and piano
Sonata for Flute and Piano 2016 14′
1) Breathless
2) Contained
3) Integrale
Of Leaks and Mirrors 2015 10’
Flute and percussion
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’
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
On Levitation 5′
Electric Guitar
Half State (alto sax) 2020 6′
Half State 2015 6’
Solo flute
Meditation for Solo Cello 2014 4’
Film and Theatrical
Foil 2023 15′
Commissioned by the Sound of Silent Film Festival
Songs About Buildings and Moods 2023
Main title and ancillary music for PBS series – first season.
Devil’s Food Cake 2020 20′
Commissioned by the Sound of Silent Film Festival
Dreaming Grand Avenue 2019 (Feature film)
Directed by Hugh Schulze
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