Music

This page contains a chronological list of my compositions. Click on the titles for score excerpts, and feel free to contact me for additional information or if you would like to perform a piece. Many full scores, parts, and recordings are available upon request. I also offer services as a composer, arranger, orchestrator, and engraver on an individual basis.

Drum Circles for three djembes, 2011
Duration: 4′
Premiere: Patrick Kennedy, Hunyong Kim & Rich Weismantel
May 10, 2011 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

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My Grandmother’s Love Letters for tenor and piano, 2011
Duration: 4′
Text by Hart Crane
Premiere: Robert Ariza – tenor & Kristin Barone – piano
April 5, 2011 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

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This Mortal Coil for Pierrot ensemble plus percussion, 2011
Duration: 9′
Premiere: Lunatics at Large
March 1, 2011 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

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Three Psychodramas for piano, 2010
Duration: 3’30″
Premiere: Sunny Knable
December 14, 2010 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

I. Octave Compulsive

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II. Suspicious Thirds

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III. Scherzophrenia

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In Search of Melody for orchestra, 2010
Duration: 5′
Reading: Queens College Orchestra – missing cl. 2, bsn. 2 & pno.

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White Funk (Under the Influence) for string quartet, 2010
Duration: 4’30″
Premiere: Dynamic Motion String Quartet
October 12, 2010 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

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Shofar, So Good for flute, 2010
Duration: 1′
Premiere: Chia-Ching Mao
October 12, 2010 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

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Now We’re Cooking, theme for piano, 2010
Duration: 1′
Commissioned by Katie Bowers for YouTube video series, Kitchen Kids

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Floating on the Breath of Time for chamber orchestra, 2010
Duration: 3′
Based on the second movement of Haiku
Reading: Queens College Orchestra

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Haiku for shakuhachi (or flute) and guitar, 2010
Duration: 9′
Premiere: Austin Shadduck – shakuhachi & Sarah Soller – guitar
April 13, 2010 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

I. Music in autumn

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II. Floating on the breath of time

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III. As a falling leaf

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Three Melodies for Three Violins, 2009
Duration: 3′

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Freeflow Phoenix for oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, 2009
Duration: 4’20″
Premiere: Second Instrumental Unit conducted by David Fulmer
December 8, 2009 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

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Komuso for clarinet, 2009
Duration: 4′-5′
Premiere: David Bridges, Bb clarinet
October 6, 2009 @ LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College

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Follow That Mustache! for wind ensemble, 2009
Duration: 3′
Commissioned by Joel Smales and the Binghamton High School Wind Ensemble
Premiere: May 20, 2009 @ Helen Foley Theater, Binghamton High School

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Three Studies in the Style of Bach for keyboard, 2008
Duration: 4′

I. Gigue

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II. Chorale Prelude

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III. Fugue in D Minor

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Reconstructing Babel, electroacoustic work for CD playback, 2008
Duration: 4’23″
Based on a text by E. E. Cummings

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Coming of Age for wind ensemble, 2008
Duration: 5′
Reading: University of Rochester Wind Symphony

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Wash, Rinse, Repeat, electroacoustic work for CD playback, 2007
Duration: 5’25″

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Waltz for Debby by Bill Evans, arrangement for big band, 2007
Duration: 4′
Reading: Eastman Jazz Ensemble

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Happy Trails for SATB saxophone quartet and jazz piano trio, 2007
Duration: 5′

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Wind Quintet, 2007
Duration: 3’30″

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Pure Imagination by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
arrangement for small jazz ensemble, 2007
Duration: 5′

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Night Song for mezzo-soprano and string quartet, 2006
Duration: 3′

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Die Nacht for soprano and piano, 2005
Duration: 2’30″
Text by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

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Costa del Sol by Nobuo Uematsu, arrangement for large jazz ensemble, 2004
Duration: 6’30″

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Song for the Viola for viola and piano, 2004
Duration: 3′

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A Piano Trio That Never Was for AATB saxophone quartet, 2004
Duration: 3’30″

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“My Grandmother’s Love Letters” from White Buildings by Hart Crane

There are no stars tonight

But those of memory.

Yet how much room for memory there is

In the loose girdle of soft rain.

There is even room enough

For the letters of my mother’s mother,

Elizabeth,

That have been pressed so long

Into a corner of the roof

That they are brown and soft,

And liable to melt as snow.

Over the greatness of such space

Steps must be gentle.

It is all hung by an invisible white hair.

It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air.

And I ask myself:

“Are your fingers long enough to play

Old keys that are but echoes:

Is the silence strong enough

To carry back the music to its source

And back to you again

As though to her?”

Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand

Through much of what she would not understand;

And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof

With such a sound of gently pitying laughter.

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