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CATALOG OF WORKS AND SCORES:

These pieces are either currently considered fit for public consumption, or were performed publicly at some point. Scores are available for most performable pieces in .pdf format, and parts are available on request. Download Acrobat Reader here if you need it. Any performers or ensembles wishing to perform any of these pieces should contact me to let me know and to make arrangements.

Waiting In The Tall Grass

Flute, Oboe, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Viola, Bass, Piano, Percussion

2007

Lots of polyhythms and textural layering, structured with aperiodic tiling.  The first section is rich and lush, and the second switches over to a rock-out featuring a drumkit.  "Waiting In The Tall Grass" was commissioned by Relâche, Inc. for the Relâche Ensemble with the generous support of The Philadelphia Music Project.

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Command and Control

Tape

2006

Conceived as a full-length album, and produced using rock production techniques.  A variety of instruments, acoustic and electronic  are featured.  Total running time is just over one hour.

Systems of Preference or Restraint

Two Keyboard Instruments

2005

For two pianos, two harpsichords, two organs, or two of any other keyboard instruments.

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Mercator Projection

Piano, Oboe, Bassoon

2005

Composed for Hanover, NH's “Classicopia.”

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The State, Recumbent

Bass Flute, English Horn, Trumpet, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Bass

2004

A nocturne of sorts, written for trumpet player Jimi Michiel's Fall 2004 NEC recital.

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Two Pages for Lee Hyla

Piano

2004

A short piece dedicated to my NEC composition teacher.

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Sarajevo

Soprano. Alto, Tenor, Bass, Piano, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Bass, Tape

2004

The first act of a three act oratorio on Sarajevo and Internationalism. Act II will be the 1984 Olympic Games, Act III will be the siege of Sarajevo, and these will be followed by a short Coda on the NATO Kosovo campaign.

Pulse-Point

Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano

2003

Starts off with pulsating swells, and evolves into overlapping melodies. All one movement, about 12 minutes in length.

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String Quartet

String Quartet

2003

Three movements – fast, slow, fast.

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Invisible Architecture

Orchestra (double winds)

2003

Roughly 10 minutes long, for a medium sized orchestra. Broken into three main sections, each of which features on of the choirs. Sections are separated by big lush chorales.

Score

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Chorale

Two Player Pianos

2003

Somewhere between Nancarrow and Ligeti.

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Mille Regrets (After Josquin)

Tape

2003

Stretched out recording of Josquin's "Mille Regrets" layered with synthesized sounds and percussion.

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Ex Nihilo

Piano

2002

Short piece based entirely on shifting, evolving tremolos.

Score

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Piano, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Bass, French Horn, Tape

2001

Five movement Oratorio. The text is excerpted from the book by William Blake, and the tape is recordings of two English professors reading excerpts and discussing the meaning of the text. Post-minimalist/romantic hybrid.  These audio files are excerpts only.

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Distance Over Time

Two Pianos

2001

Three movements. Post-minimalism infused with romanticism.

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Cerulean Black

Tape

2000

Slow, pretty piece with a granulized choral sample as its basis.

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Stepwise Motion

Tape

2000

Percussive piece composed at Dartmouth. The source material is banging and stomping in a stairwell and on a fire escape.

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Suite for Solo Cello

Solo Cello

2000

Three movements. The first is very fragmented and employs many double and triple stops, the second is less fragmented and all pizzicato, and the third movement arrives at a very cohesive and vicious ostinato.

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Sacred/Profane

Live electronics with Max/MSP

1999

Composed in Dartmouth's Bregman Studio, this piece uses a line from a piece of Renaissance polyphony as its primary source, and juxtaposes speech of Latin from the text against more contemporary speech.

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

Piano, Soprano

1999

Atonal lied with text by e.e. cummings (hence the absence of capitalization in the title.)

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Piano Trio

Piano, Violin, Cello

1999

One movement Brahms-esque piano trio

Critical Mass

String Orchestra

1999

Slow Romantic string orchestra piece with long, flowing dramatic lines.

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Music, When Soft Voices Die

Piano, Voice

1998

Romantic style lieder. Text by Shelley.

Scherzophrenia

Solo Piano

1998

Three movement culmination of a study of atonal technique. The first movement is based on a six note motif provided by David Rakowski. Second movement is slow and pretty. Third movement is based on continuously evolving ostinati. All of the movements experiment with switching between non-tonal scales.

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