Works:
Solo works with instrumentation:
Edo - solo Piano
Pour Bella - solo Piano
24 Preludes on 12 Tone Rows - solo Piano
Pele and Namaka: Fire and Water - solo Flute
Variations on Nearer My God to Thee - solo B-flat Clarinet
Holodomor: Soviet Famine 1932-1933 - for C Trumpet and Synthesizer. Performed at the UNR College of Liberal Arts Graduate
Symposium (CLAGS) Feb. 26, 2016, by Josh White, C trumpet.
Elegy - solo Violin for J Adam Gus Weaver. Performed by Nisha von Bartheld of the Artemisia Chamber Ensemble.
Dreamscapes - solo Piano. Commissioned for Tammy Miller by Dr. Daniel Baldwin
Study for Saxophone - solo Alto Saxophone for Athanasios Zervas
Study No. 1 - solo Flute
Tarantella - solo Piano. Commissioned by Evan Heath.
Small Ensembles with Instrumentation:
Music Swims Back to Me - Mezzo-soprano and Piano Premiered 2008.
Flute Sonata - Flute and Piano
Cinq Nocturnes pour piano et tuba - Piano and Tuba
Piece for Clarinet and Piano - A-flat Clarinet and Piano for Kimberly Fullerton at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Exorcism: Part 1 - The Devil Inside - Prepared Piano and Multi-Percussion
Episodes - Steel pans and Harpsichord (playable on piano)
Nocturne - Bassoon and Piano
Marimba Duet - Two Marimbas
Ich Traume Liebeslieder - for marimba and violin Premiered Dec. 8, 2015.
Piano Trio - Piano, Violin, and Cello
Phase for Vibraphone - Vibraphone (2)
Andantino and Allegro - Flute and Cello
3 Songs for Voice - Voice and Piano
Ghostholders Know - Baritone Voice and Piano
Reckless Dreams - Viola and Piano
3 Songs in the Name of Children - Tenor Voice and Piano. Text by Louisiana Poet Laureate Ava Haymon
Black Bayou Vignettes - Solo Alto Saxophone
Static Lightening - Solo Viola
Visions Through Glass - Solo Piano. Inspired by the 12 Tribes of Israel windows created by Marc Chagall. (in progress)
Clarinet and Percussion Duo - Bb Clarinet and Multiple Percussion. Composed for Shandra Helman and Thom Hasenpflug. (in progress)
Un-named piece - for Recorder and Harpsichord. Composed for Eero Saunamaki. (in progress)
Chamber Ensembles (trio or more performers) with instrumentation:
Musical Interlude "Mermaid Fantasy" for Peter Pan by Mark Charlap - Musical Theater Ensemble
Woodwind Sextet - Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn in F, and Piano for the City Creek Winds
Through the Moonlight and the Mist - String Orchestra
The Furies - Mezzo-soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Piano, Violin, Cello, Double Bass, and Percussion
Vergib Uns! - A Capella Choir (SATB) original text
Piano Quintet - Violins (2), Viola, Cello, and Piano Performed Jan. 30, 2016, by the Artemisia Chamber Ensemble.
Piece for Woodblocks - Percussionists (4)
String Quartet No. 1 in C minor - Violins (2), Viola, and Cello Performed by the Nightingale String Quartet Spring 2015
Black Moon - Violins (2), Marimba, and Multi-Percussion Performed by the UNR Contemporary Music Ensemble Spring 2015
Percussion Quartet - Multi-Percussion (4)
Confessions to a Priest - Piano trio
When the Mountains Touch the Sky - Commission by the Manzanita Brass Quintet (2 Trumpets, Horn in F, Trombone, and Tuba)
Performed Dec. 8, 2015.
The Winds of the Portneuf - Commission by the City Creek Winds (woodwind quintet: Flute, Oboe, B-flat Clarinet, Horn in F, and Bassoon)
Performed May 12, 2016. Taken on tour with the North Star Ensemble, Reno, NV, Oct. 2016
Sleep - Words by Eduard Morike for Flute, B-flat Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn in F, Baritone vocalist, Violin I and II, Viola, and Cello. To be
Premiered by the Artemisia Chamber Ensemble in April, 2016.
The Storm - Flute, Oboe, B-flat Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Guitar, Piano, Cello
Far From Home - Oboes (4), Flugelhorn, and Strings.
The Waning - Flute (2), Oboe, B-flat Clarinet, C Trumpet, Strings
String Quartet No 2 - Violins (2), Viola, and Cello
5 Works for Cello and Piano - Cello and Piano Premiered Nov. 20, 2016, by William Montgomery (piano) and Luciano Correa (cello) at Louisiana State University School of Music.
Conversations - B-flat Clarinet, Violin, and Cello. Commissioned by Dr. Adam Snider for the University of Nevada-Reno Contemporary Music Ensemble. To be performed in the Spring of 2017.
Epic Fanfare - For Brass and Percussion Ensemble
String Quartet No. 3 - Violin (2), Viola, and Cello
Amen - A cappella choir (SATB)
A Joyful Noise! - 2 Readers and Piano, in collaboration with the Theater and Dance departments of Louisiana State University
Relinquished - Flute, Bb Clarinet, Piano, and Violin
String Trio - Violin, Viola, and Cello
Saxophone Quartet (Echoes of Light Descending) - Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, and Baritone Saxophone.
The Freedom Train - Flute/Picc., Oboe, Bb Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, Horn in F, Piano, Toy Piano, Drum Set, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass. Text from Langston Hughes (with special thanks from the Langston Hughes Foundation) and transcribed interviews from family members that have lost someone involved in an unarmed police shooting/killing.
'Til My Last Breath - Flute, Oboe, Harp, Violin, Viola, Cello. Commissioned by the Musaica Ensemble in New Orleans. It is a visceral reaction to the unjust deaths of many unarmed black Americans. Includes "Lift Every Voice".
Large Ensembles with instrumentation:
Adagio - Full Orchestra
Carolino's Nightmare - Full Orchestra Performed Mar. 1, 2016, by the University of Nevada-Reno Orchestra, directed by Dr. Jason Altieri.
*Awarded First Place at the University of Nevada-Reno Composition Competition (2016)
*Awarded Semi-Finalist in the American Prize Composition Competition - Student Orchestra Division. (2016)
Madrigal Dances - Concert Band (grade 2) for Palmdale Jr. High School, Palmdale, CA, under Angela Clayton
Dans le Chambre - Jazz Ensemble with Alto Saxophone soloist
Seaside Foley's - Wind Ensemble (grade 4.5)
Prelude for Orchestra - Full Orchestra
Broadway Christmas - Full Orchestra and Chorus arranged for Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Mariusz Smolij
The Maiden - Full Orchestra. Dedicated to the brave men and women that protested against a tyrannical government in the Ukraine during the winter of 2014. (in progress)
Electronic Pieces:
Event Horizon - concrete sounds
Death is Nothing At All - spoken word and tape Performed Dec. 8, 2015
Music of Fear and Inspiration - MIDI sound used in a commercial for the Renown Community Health program.
The Devil Visits Verdun - Concrete sounds including violin. Featured in Parsing (Im)possibilities at The Holland Project, Reno, NV
Fractured Pixels - Piano and Tape
Conversations - Marimba and Tape
Flowering - Cello and Tape
Flight of the Birds - Alto Saxophone and Tape
Wrapped in a Flag - Solo Saxophone Player and tape. Text is transcribed interviews and press conferences from President Donald J. Trump and recordings of people reading his tweets. (in progress)
Solo works with instrumentation:
Edo - solo Piano
Pour Bella - solo Piano
24 Preludes on 12 Tone Rows - solo Piano
Pele and Namaka: Fire and Water - solo Flute
Variations on Nearer My God to Thee - solo B-flat Clarinet
Holodomor: Soviet Famine 1932-1933 - for C Trumpet and Synthesizer. Performed at the UNR College of Liberal Arts Graduate
Symposium (CLAGS) Feb. 26, 2016, by Josh White, C trumpet.
Elegy - solo Violin for J Adam Gus Weaver. Performed by Nisha von Bartheld of the Artemisia Chamber Ensemble.
Dreamscapes - solo Piano. Commissioned for Tammy Miller by Dr. Daniel Baldwin
Study for Saxophone - solo Alto Saxophone for Athanasios Zervas
Study No. 1 - solo Flute
Tarantella - solo Piano. Commissioned by Evan Heath.
Small Ensembles with Instrumentation:
Music Swims Back to Me - Mezzo-soprano and Piano Premiered 2008.
Flute Sonata - Flute and Piano
Cinq Nocturnes pour piano et tuba - Piano and Tuba
Piece for Clarinet and Piano - A-flat Clarinet and Piano for Kimberly Fullerton at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Exorcism: Part 1 - The Devil Inside - Prepared Piano and Multi-Percussion
Episodes - Steel pans and Harpsichord (playable on piano)
Nocturne - Bassoon and Piano
Marimba Duet - Two Marimbas
Ich Traume Liebeslieder - for marimba and violin Premiered Dec. 8, 2015.
Piano Trio - Piano, Violin, and Cello
Phase for Vibraphone - Vibraphone (2)
Andantino and Allegro - Flute and Cello
3 Songs for Voice - Voice and Piano
Ghostholders Know - Baritone Voice and Piano
Reckless Dreams - Viola and Piano
3 Songs in the Name of Children - Tenor Voice and Piano. Text by Louisiana Poet Laureate Ava Haymon
Black Bayou Vignettes - Solo Alto Saxophone
Static Lightening - Solo Viola
Visions Through Glass - Solo Piano. Inspired by the 12 Tribes of Israel windows created by Marc Chagall. (in progress)
Clarinet and Percussion Duo - Bb Clarinet and Multiple Percussion. Composed for Shandra Helman and Thom Hasenpflug. (in progress)
Un-named piece - for Recorder and Harpsichord. Composed for Eero Saunamaki. (in progress)
Chamber Ensembles (trio or more performers) with instrumentation:
Musical Interlude "Mermaid Fantasy" for Peter Pan by Mark Charlap - Musical Theater Ensemble
Woodwind Sextet - Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn in F, and Piano for the City Creek Winds
Through the Moonlight and the Mist - String Orchestra
The Furies - Mezzo-soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Piano, Violin, Cello, Double Bass, and Percussion
Vergib Uns! - A Capella Choir (SATB) original text
Piano Quintet - Violins (2), Viola, Cello, and Piano Performed Jan. 30, 2016, by the Artemisia Chamber Ensemble.
Piece for Woodblocks - Percussionists (4)
String Quartet No. 1 in C minor - Violins (2), Viola, and Cello Performed by the Nightingale String Quartet Spring 2015
Black Moon - Violins (2), Marimba, and Multi-Percussion Performed by the UNR Contemporary Music Ensemble Spring 2015
Percussion Quartet - Multi-Percussion (4)
Confessions to a Priest - Piano trio
When the Mountains Touch the Sky - Commission by the Manzanita Brass Quintet (2 Trumpets, Horn in F, Trombone, and Tuba)
Performed Dec. 8, 2015.
The Winds of the Portneuf - Commission by the City Creek Winds (woodwind quintet: Flute, Oboe, B-flat Clarinet, Horn in F, and Bassoon)
Performed May 12, 2016. Taken on tour with the North Star Ensemble, Reno, NV, Oct. 2016
Sleep - Words by Eduard Morike for Flute, B-flat Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn in F, Baritone vocalist, Violin I and II, Viola, and Cello. To be
Premiered by the Artemisia Chamber Ensemble in April, 2016.
The Storm - Flute, Oboe, B-flat Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Guitar, Piano, Cello
Far From Home - Oboes (4), Flugelhorn, and Strings.
The Waning - Flute (2), Oboe, B-flat Clarinet, C Trumpet, Strings
String Quartet No 2 - Violins (2), Viola, and Cello
5 Works for Cello and Piano - Cello and Piano Premiered Nov. 20, 2016, by William Montgomery (piano) and Luciano Correa (cello) at Louisiana State University School of Music.
Conversations - B-flat Clarinet, Violin, and Cello. Commissioned by Dr. Adam Snider for the University of Nevada-Reno Contemporary Music Ensemble. To be performed in the Spring of 2017.
Epic Fanfare - For Brass and Percussion Ensemble
String Quartet No. 3 - Violin (2), Viola, and Cello
Amen - A cappella choir (SATB)
A Joyful Noise! - 2 Readers and Piano, in collaboration with the Theater and Dance departments of Louisiana State University
Relinquished - Flute, Bb Clarinet, Piano, and Violin
String Trio - Violin, Viola, and Cello
Saxophone Quartet (Echoes of Light Descending) - Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, and Baritone Saxophone.
The Freedom Train - Flute/Picc., Oboe, Bb Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, Horn in F, Piano, Toy Piano, Drum Set, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass. Text from Langston Hughes (with special thanks from the Langston Hughes Foundation) and transcribed interviews from family members that have lost someone involved in an unarmed police shooting/killing.
'Til My Last Breath - Flute, Oboe, Harp, Violin, Viola, Cello. Commissioned by the Musaica Ensemble in New Orleans. It is a visceral reaction to the unjust deaths of many unarmed black Americans. Includes "Lift Every Voice".
Large Ensembles with instrumentation:
Adagio - Full Orchestra
Carolino's Nightmare - Full Orchestra Performed Mar. 1, 2016, by the University of Nevada-Reno Orchestra, directed by Dr. Jason Altieri.
*Awarded First Place at the University of Nevada-Reno Composition Competition (2016)
*Awarded Semi-Finalist in the American Prize Composition Competition - Student Orchestra Division. (2016)
Madrigal Dances - Concert Band (grade 2) for Palmdale Jr. High School, Palmdale, CA, under Angela Clayton
Dans le Chambre - Jazz Ensemble with Alto Saxophone soloist
Seaside Foley's - Wind Ensemble (grade 4.5)
Prelude for Orchestra - Full Orchestra
Broadway Christmas - Full Orchestra and Chorus arranged for Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Mariusz Smolij
The Maiden - Full Orchestra. Dedicated to the brave men and women that protested against a tyrannical government in the Ukraine during the winter of 2014. (in progress)
Electronic Pieces:
Event Horizon - concrete sounds
Death is Nothing At All - spoken word and tape Performed Dec. 8, 2015
Music of Fear and Inspiration - MIDI sound used in a commercial for the Renown Community Health program.
The Devil Visits Verdun - Concrete sounds including violin. Featured in Parsing (Im)possibilities at The Holland Project, Reno, NV
Fractured Pixels - Piano and Tape
Conversations - Marimba and Tape
Flowering - Cello and Tape
Flight of the Birds - Alto Saxophone and Tape
Wrapped in a Flag - Solo Saxophone Player and tape. Text is transcribed interviews and press conferences from President Donald J. Trump and recordings of people reading his tweets. (in progress)
