SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
All works published by Ganesa Music, except *where otherwise noted
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Orchestral/Large Ensemble:
Tempelhof Etude (2011) a concerto for orchestra 15’
Commissioned by Susan Bloom and Eddie Jacobsen for The Knights Chamber Orchestra.
Premiere June 20, 2011, Naumberg Band Shell, Central Park, NYC
Emerald Waltz (2010) a concerto for orchestra 5’
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, 35th Anniversary commission
Premiered May 16, 2010, Greater Boston Vineyard Church, Cambridge, MA
In medias res (2009) a concerto for orchestra 22’
Boston Modern Orchestra Project commission
Premiered May 22, 2009, Jordan Hall, Boston
Double Concerto (2008) for 2 violins & orchestra 27’
Boston Modern Orchestra Project commission
Premiered March 29, 2008, Jordan Hall, Boston
New York premiere April 1, 2008, MATA Festival, Brooklyn Lyceum
Chance Encounter (2007) for soprano & 12 instruments, in public spaces 35’
Funded in part by Creative Capital
Premiered September 28, 2007, Seward Park, New York
The Right Weather (2003-04) for chamber orchestra and piano soloist 40’
American Composers Orchestra Whitaker Commission
Premiered February 27, 2004, Zankel Hall, New York
The Trojan Women (1999, rev. 2003) for string orchestra 12’
String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC) commission
Premiered May 10, 2003, MATA Festival, NYC
Weill Recital Hall, May 20, 2003
Cape May Pictures III (2003) for orchestra 16’
Cape May Festival commission
Premiered May 22, 2003, Bay Atlantic Symphony
Cape May Pictures II (2002) for orchestra 15’
Cape May Festival Orchestra commission
Premiered May 21, 2002
Roam (2001) for orchestra 9’
Composed while in residence at Copland House, Cortlandt Manor, NY
Reading by the Minnesota Orchestra, March 13, 2002
American Composers Orchestra Whitaker Reading Sessions, April 15, 2002
Premiered February 6, 2003, New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Cape May Pictures (2000) for orchestra 21’
Cape May Festival Orchestra commission
Premiered May 25, 2000
unfinish'd, sent (1999-2000) for soprano and chamber orchestra 10’
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, MATA Festival, NYC, April 12, 2002
Pacific Music Festival, Sapporo, Japan, July 26, 2000; Aaron Kernis, conductor
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, June 3, 2000; Derek Bermel, conductor
Tantrum (1997) for symphonic band 7’
Moorhead State University Wind Ensemble commission
Premiered February 9, 1997 at Moorhead State University
Lux (1996) for orchestra 12’
Winner Omaha Symphony Guild International Competition 1998
Premiered April 24, 1999
Chamber/Solo:
Roman Holiday Blues (2011) for solo cello using two-bow technique 7’
Commissioned by Frances-Marie Uitti.
Premiered February 2011, Issue Project Room,NYC
Double Duet (2010) for saxophone quartet 15’
Commissioned by Larry Hewes for the Washington Saxophone Quartet.
Premiered October 1, 2010, Arlington, VA
Graffiti dell'amante (2010) for string quartet and soprano 5-30’
Commissioned by Market Square Concerts.
Premiered February 24, 2010, Market Square Concerts, Harrisburg, PA
Gargoyles (2009) for solo flute 6'30"
Commissioned by The National Flute Association, Inc.
Premiered at The National Flute Association Annual Conference, New York
Scene & Aria: Layover in CDG (2009) for clarinet, violin and cello 6'
Commissioned and premiered at the Chamber Music Conference & Composers' Forum of the East
Bennington, Vermont
The Project of Collecting Clouds (2009) for amplified chamber ensemble (cellist/narrator, violin, clarinet and percussion) 10'
On a poem, "Hour," by Christian Hawkey
Commissioned by and premiered at Town Hall, Seattle
Elegy-Portrait (2008) for solo piano 15’
Commissioned by Premiere Commissions, Inc.
Premiered May 5, 2009, St. Bartholomew's Church, NYC
Synopses (Nov 2006–May 2009) for solo instruments
3–6’ each
Short pieces (15 total) written for members of Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
Premiered at Club Café, Boston during course of Music Alive residency.
The Lay of the Love and Death (2006) for baritone voice, piano and violin 25’
Commissioned by the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation
For baritone Jesse Blumberg and violinist Colin Jacobsen
Premiered March 22, 2006, Alice Tully Hall, NYC
Presented by Premiere Commissions, Inc.
Start (2005) for solo piano 25’
Commissioned by Andrew Armstrong
Van Cliburn Competition Invitational
Premiered August 10, 2005 at The Stone, NYC
Hurry (2004) for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano 15’
Commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the Harbison/Upshaw Workshop
Premieres October 10, 2004
Kafka Songs (2001-03) for voice and violin, one performer 25’
Commissioned by Carla Kihlstedt with funds from NYSCA
Music At The Anthology, NYC; The Stone, NYC;
Polestar Gallery, Seattle; Zankel Hall, NY; Look & Listen Festival, NYC
Midtown Passacaglia (2003) for solo piano 3’
Commissioned by Merkin Hall for Lucy Moses School
Premiered November 11, 2003 at Merkin Hall, NYC
Wait (2002) for piano with drone 7’
Contrasts Quartet commission
Premiered at Merkin Concert Hall, New York, January 29, 2002
The Trojan Women (1999, rev. 2001) for string quartet 12’
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Miami String Quartet, April 5, 2001
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Domaine Forget, Quebec, August 26, 2000
Here (1998) for baritone, clarinet, electric guitar and electric bass guitar 7’
TONK multi-media ensemble commission
MATA Festival, January 19, 1999
Gaudeamus Festival, Netherlands, September 11, 1999
Genesis Again (1998) for soprano and violin 11’
Tenderloin Opera Company, San Francisco, commission
St. Boniface Church, November 1, 1998
Bang On A Can Festival, New York, May 3, 1999
Spooky Action at a Distance (1997) for viola, bassoon and piano 8’
Fondation Royaumont, France, for the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
Premiered September 27, 1997
The Great Plasto-Dio Dada Drama for solo percussion (1997) 13’
1996 Composers Commissioning Program, American Composers Forum
Premiered September 7, 1997, MATA Festival by percussionist Lee Ferguson
Lux (1995) for dramatic soprano and 13 instruments 12’
Winner ASCAP Grants to Young Composers 1996
Commissioned by the Bronx Council on the Arts
Premiered May 1997 by the Bronx Arts Ensemble
Electronic/Electro-Acoustic:
Machina Mundi (2000) for six voices and digital audio 19’
Western Wind Vocal Ensemble commission
New York State Council on the Arts commissioning program
Premiered February 8, 2000, Music At The Anthology, New York
A Collective Cleansing (1999, rev. 2000), for solo voice and digital audio 15’
Civitella Ranieri, Italy, September 26, 2004
UC San Diego Search Event, October 2002
The Cutting Room, New York, May 10, 2001
The Knitting Factory, New York, January 7, 2001
American Music Week, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 2000
The Kitchen, New York, September 2000
World Conference on Breast Cancer, Ottowa, July-August 1999
Opera and Music Theater:
Spooky Action at a Distance (in progress), a chamber opera 45’
Erik Ehn, librettist, Tenderloin Opera Company
Workshop: INFANT Festival, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, June 2000
The Trojan Women (1999) music for Euripides' tragedy
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
JoAnne Akalaitis, director
Spring 1999
The Electronic Ordo Virtutum - Act I (1998) 14’
electronic music-theater piece written and performed by the 4-member Hildegurls
Lincoln Center Festival, July 1998
Phrenic Crush (1997) a chamber opera - Erik Ehn, librettist 70’
Premiere Production: Haas Foundation Creative Works Fund,
San Francisco State University, August 1997
Ideas of Good and Evil (1996), 3 music-theater pieces
for 4 instruments, singers, actors
Developed in residency at University of Iowa, Spring 1996 with Erik Ehn, librettist
Apology (1991), a ballet for four voices and three dancers 9’
Commissioned by the Carrie Nedrow dance company
Premiered at Brooklyn College of Music, June 21, 1991
Choral:
Lamentations for a City (2004) for mixed chorus & English horn 16’
Commissioned by Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble
Premiered November 11, 2004, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
Letter to Anna (1998) for a cappella girls chorus 6’
San Francisco Girls Chorus 20th Anniversary Commission
Premiered October 30, 1998
From 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1996) for chorus & percussion 16’
New Choral Music Award Commission from the Dale Warland Singers
Premiered April 19, 1997 on the Dale Warland Concert Series, Minneapolis, MN
*Spinning Flax (1994) for a capella treble chorus and soloists 5’
Winner ASCAP Grants to Young Composers 1995
San Francisco Girls Chorus commission
Premiered at "15th Anniversary Celebration" Concert, San Francisco, June 4, 1994
Published by Boosey & Hawkes – “Conductor’s Choice” Series 1997
