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Current Projects

Hen's Teeth (40') a Breton Requiem Mass for voices, baroque viola, harp, recorders, celesta and portative organ

2009

Paul's Case (80') an opera for six voices and piano

St. Eustace (2-3') for voice, viola da gamba, troubadour harp and portative organ
Commissioned by Christopher Williams, premiere 5/09 Dance Theater Workshop

St. Vincent
(5-6') for three voices, baroque viola, recorder, banjo, troubadour harp and portative organ
Commissioned by Christopher Williams, premiere 5/09 Dance Theater Workshop

St. Jerome (3') for seven voices
Commissioned by Christopher Williams, premiere 5/09 Dance Theater Workshop

2008

The Bear and the Dove (14') for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, bass, piano and tape
Commissioned by Christopher Williams and the Bard Summer Music Festival

Lady Titiana (6') for soprano and piano

Bells for Bartleby (4') for bass and piano

The Black Riders (5') for soprano and piano

Forman (4') for soprano and piano
Daisy Press, private residence 2/14 New York, NY

Wildflower (15') for two sopranos, harp, synthesizer and tape
Princeton Composers Ensemble, 4/29 Princeton, NJ

St. Laurence (7') for voice, bass viol, cello and percussion
Commissioned by Christopher Williams

Keats (4') from The Romantics for soprano and piano
Daisy Press, private residence 2/14

 

2007

Poe (3') from The Romantics for baritone, soprano and piano
Daisy Press and Patrick James, private residence 2/14/08

Shelley (6') from The Romantics for baritone and piano
Patrick James, private residence 2/14/08

Wordsworth (8') from The Romantics for high voice and piano
Daisy Press, premiere Makor Cafe 2/22 New York, NY

Coleridge
(4') from The Romantics for high voice and piano
Daisy Press, premiere Makor Cafe 2/22 New York, NY

Brave Men Sail* (12') for large chamber ensemble
Commissioned by the Present Music Ensemble, premiere 6/07 Milwaukee, WI

Etude 6 (6') for percussion quartet
So Percussion, premiere 2/27 Princeton, NJ

2006

Tir Na nOg (11') for 2 cellos, 2 percussion, celesta and synthesizer
Commissioned by Christopher Williams, premiere 2/23 Princeton NJ

Saint Pancras from the Golden Legend (10') for voices, 2 viola de gamba, chimes and electronics
Commissioned by Christopher Williams, premiere 12/06 Dance New Amsterdam, New York NY

Quiet Songs* (12') for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, double bass, piano and tape
The NOW Ensemble, premiere 12/06 Princeton NJ

Six Owen Songs (55') for two sopranos and four-hand piano plus electronics
The Owen Quartet, premiere 10/06 The Greenwich House New York, NY

2005

Our Year: Spring (13') for solo piano (or piano four-hands) plus electronics
Commissioned by Jeffrey Edelstein to celebrate the wedding of Julia D'Amico and Stuart Rockefeller
Premiere by the Composer at Kykuit Estate, Pocantico Hills, NY 6/05

Patience* (10') for orchestra
Commissioned by the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra, premiere 5/05 Princeton, NJ

Etudes* (22') for solo piano
Janelle Fung, premiere 3/05 Princeton, NJ

2004

Match-Up* (12’) for percussion quartet
So Percussion, premiere 12/04 Princeton NJ

Songs for Girls* (22’) for two sopranos, record player and four-hand piano
Princeton Composers Ensemble, premiere 4/04 Princeton NJ

Felix* (8’) for orchestra
The New Jersey Symphony (reading) 5/04 Princeton NJ

Untitled (Canons for M.R.) (23’) for five channel tape and five micro-cassette players
The Danish Radio at Vor Frue Kirke, 4/04 Copenhagen, Denmark

2003

Best (sound installation) for 24 pairs of headphones and four tape recorders
House of Sound, 10/04 Mendel Music Library Listening Room, Princeton NJ

Eight Plus* (20’) for mezzo-soprano, alto flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano/synthesizer, and percussion
The Non Sequitur Ensemble, premiere 11/03 Princeton NJ

Triple* (30’) for organ, synthesizer, and two percussionists
Princeton Composers Ensemble, premiere 10/03 Princeton NJ

2002

Finishing (15’) for chamber orchestra
Ensemble Synapse Chamber Orchestra, premiere 5/03 Montreal, Canada

Consolations (25’) for two percussionists
Traces Percussion Duo, premiere 10/03 Princeton NJ

2001

Sweet (17’) for small chamber ensemble
New Music New Haven, 4/02 New Haven, CT

Circle Stories (13') for orchestra
The American Composers Orchestra Whitaker Readings, 4/01 New York, NY

2000

Soar-Stop (8’) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Eighth Blackbird Ensemble, premiere 7/01 Norfolk, CT

Dim (23’) for vocal quartet and nine players
New Music New Haven, premiere 3/01 New Haven 

1999

Small Pictures (13’) for string quartet
The Zapolsky Quartet, premiere 4/00 Horsens, Denmark

Midnight Pictures (8’) for orchestra
The New York Youth Symphony, premiere 5/00 New York, NY

Fifteen Pictures (28’) for 11 instruments
Eastman School of Music Composers Forum, premiere 3/99 Rochester, NY

1994-1998

Tonight in the Hub of the World (12’) for orchestra
Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, (reading) 12/97 Rochester, NY

Ballade (10’) for piano
John Root, premiere 7/97 New Brunswick, ME

Camerata (23’) for string orchestra
Eastman School of Music Composers Forum, premiere 11/96 Rochester, NY

Rustbelt (11’) for woodwind quintet
Eastman School of Music Composers Forum premiere 3/96 Rochester, NY

Chamber Concerto (22’) for string orchestra and piano
The Cox High School Orchestra, Gregory Spears soloist premiere 5/95 Virginia Beach, VA

 

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