compositions

recent

A moonbeam is just a filtered sunbeam (2020-21) 58'
an album created out of improvisations on violin, viola, piano, bowed piano, bowed wine glasses, and slate, with field recordings and processing

Little Jimmy (2020) apr. 29'
For two pianos and two percussionists

Transgressions (2018-19) 10-13'
For violin and viola

Duo for viola and cello, with any number of violins (2018-19) 14'
For viola and cello, with any number of violins

I have a lot to learn (2019) 4'
For solo piano

A New Secular Calvinist Creed (2019) 10'
For solo viola d'amore

434.6 (2019) 5'
For violin and viola

opera

Bonnie and Clyde (2014-2017) 90'
an opera in two acts created with librettist Melinda Rice and artist Claudia Doderer
for 10 singers and 17 instruments

Hopscotch (2014-2015)
a mobile opera
created with Yuval Sharon and The Industry, in collaboration with five other composers (Andrew Norman, Veronica Krausas, Ellen Reid, David Rosenboom, and Marc Lowenstein)

large ensemble

Shasta (2017) 17'
for brass ensemble, timpani, two percussion, piano, and harp

Yelling Into the Wind (2015) 14'
for piano and 13 instruments

Immutable Distance (2013) 10'
for eight electric guitars

Inch and Mile (2011-2012) 16'
for chamber orchestra

the difference between one and two (2008-2010) 14'
for 33 violins with only e and a strings

chamber

Little Jimmy (2020) apr. 29'
For two pianos and two percussionists

Transgressions (2018-19) 10-13'
For violin and viola

Duo for viola and cello, with any number of violins (2018-19) 14'
For viola and cello, with any number of violins

434.6 (2019) 5'
For violin and viola

Chaconne (2018) 10'
For horn in F, trombone, and tuba

Sheer (2017) 21'
for solo violin and eight wine glasses (four players)

wrestle, stain, whistle, pound (2017) 12'
for string quartet

Tread Softly (2016) 5'
for string quartet

we see the flying bird (2015-2016) 10'
for two percussionists

two animals and the ocean (2015) 6'
for tenor saxophone and bass clarinet

Five Songs (2015) 10'
for soprano and three percussionists

Eleven Shadows (2015) 18'
for baroque flute, baroque violin, baroque cello, viola da gamba, and harpsichord

I Hold the Lion's Paw (2013-2014) 45'
for percussion quartet

Cub (2014) 2'
four tiny pieces for xylophone, vibraphone, timpani, and snare drum

Lion and Wolf (2013) 14'
for solo Eb clarinet, with alto trombone, cello, and piano

Voice and Echo IV (2013) 6'
for solo horn, with 2 percussionists, cello, and tenor saxophone

Hyenas in the Temples of Pleasure (2012-2013) 18'
for two pianists and two percussionists

not one blade of grass, no color in this world (2012) 15'
for viola and two violins

Imperfect Distance (2010-2012) 48'
for two microtonal pianos

Two Small Quartets (2012) 7'
violin, two violas, and cello

Silver and White (2012) 8'
for trumpet, trombone, snare drum, viola, and cello

Symmetry Etudes (2009-2012) 45'
a book of 8 pieces for two clarinets and violin

Voice and Echo I (2009) 25'
for viola with viola accompaniment

Three Ascents for Ian (2008) 6'
for two violins

Undecatet and Sextet (2008) 9'
for violin, oboe, cello, and bassoon soloists with large chamber ensemble

Ayl (2007) 15'
for alto flute, bass clarinet, viola, and guitar

solo

I have a lot to learn (2019) 4'
For solo piano

A New Secular Calvinist Creed (2019) 10'
For solo viola d'amore

Another Secular Calvinist Creed (2011) 9'
for solo cello

A Secular Calvinist Creed (2011) 8'
for solo viola

Three Pieces for prepared violin (2007) 7'
for solo violin with four e-strings

Uncertainty and Discreteness: (an animal and the ocean) (2007) 6'
for solo bass clarinet

fixed media

Hopscotch, Chapter 24: “Strange, the way" (2015) 10'
fixed media - featuring soprano Estelí Gomez