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Chamber | Large Chamber | Solo Instrumental/Concerto | Solo Vocal | Electroacoustic | Orchestral | Wind Band | Choral/Chamber Vocal | Operatic | Dance/Ballet | Film/Other

Chamber
2017- The Grand Unified Theory of Everything; oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, and 4.1 interactive electronics; 6’ 
2016- Breathe; alto saxophone and drum set; 6’ 
​2016- Heavy; bass clarinet, trombone, viola, electric guitar, and percussion; 9' 30"
2014- On the Nature of Resonance; harp and percussion (vibraphone, small drum); 8'
2014- Metal Work; trumpet, horn, bass trombone; 10'
2014- Quartet for Saxophones; saxophone quartet; 16'
2013- Bodies Upon the Gears; flute*, viola, fixed 2-channel electronics (*or clarinet); 4'
2013- GRIME; violin, viola, cello, bass; 8'
2013- Lux Aeterna; brass quintet; 7'
2011- String Quartet No. 2; string quartet; 20'
2010- Black Waters; saxophone quartet; 8’
2009- Piano Trio No. 1; piano trio; 16’

Large Chamber
2017- Dead White Man Music (see Solo Instrumental/Concerto)
2016- The Quick and the Dead; flute, oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano,
2 violins, viola, cello, double bass; 11' 
​2014- Beautiful Death; flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass; 11’
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2012- LUX; 2 C trpts, 4 horns, 3 tbns, tuba; 3'
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2009- Ozymandias, 8-part trombone choir; 3’

Solo Instrumental/Concerto 
2017- Things I’ve Whispered to the Wind; violin and interactive electronics; 11’
2017-
Dead White Man Music: Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble; harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass; 28’
2017- if/else
; flute and 2.1 interactive electronics; 6’ ​
2015- Pralaya; piano, interactive electronics, and video; 12'
2015- Amber Waves; trombone and interactive electronics; 5-10' 
2015- Rock Steady; alto saxophone; 4'

2015- Cantigas; cello and piano; 10'
2014- Benny; piano, interactive electronics, and video; 6'
2014- Wild Velvet; baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, trombone, piano, 
one percussionist, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass; 13'

2013- Mantras: Set II; solo percussion' 13'
2013- On the Will of Tones; piano; 6'
2013- Mantras: Set I; solo percussion; 15'
2012- the waters wrecked the sky; clarinet; 4'
2012- Three Etudes for Piano; piano; 14'
2010- Variations on “Old Hundredth”; organ; 7’ 
2009- Sonata for Tuba and Piano; tuba and piano; 12'

Solo Vocal
2019- Songs of Innocence | Songs of Experience; texts by William Blake; vocalist, electric guitar, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, percussion (vibraphone and drum set) violin, cello, and piano/synthesizer; 40'  
2018- The Lonely Tree; texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay; soprano and piano; 22’
2018- Love Words | Mad Words; texts by Claude McKay; countertenor, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, electric guitar, and piano; 10’
2017- A Mother’s Love; texts by Ellen Watkin’s Harper, Sarah Louise Forten, and Sarah Mapps Douglass; mezzo soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; 16’
2011- Emily's House: Ten Poems from Emily Dickinson; soprano and piano; 15'
2010- Lenore; text by Edgar Allan Poe; mezzo-soprano and piano; 24’
2010- War Songs; text by George M. Cohan, Walt Whitman, Andrew Borene, Brian Turner, and Paul Laurence Dunbar;

baritone, flute, trumpet, french horn, percussion, piano, and string quartet (or baritone with piano); 20’
2010- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; text by Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald; soprano, oboe/english horn,

violin, viola, cello, guitar, and percussion; 22’

Electroacoustic 
(Ongoing)- Sounding Bodies: An Electroacoustic Ballet; dancer(s) and interactive electronics; 30'
2017- Things I’ve Whispered to the Wind (see Solo/Concerto) 
2017- The Impossible Voyage ​(see Film/Other)
2016- Called Back (see Choral/Chamber Vocal)
2015- Pralaya (see Solo Instrumental/Concerto)
2015- Jonestown (see Operatic)
2015- Amber Waves (see Solo Instrumental/Concerto)
2014- Benny (see Solo Instrumental/Concerto)

2013- Utterings; 8-channel (also 4-channel, or stereo) fixed electronics; 8' 
2013- Bodies Upon the Gears (see Chamber)
2013/2018- The Bells; 2-channel fixed electronics (or speaker and 4.1 interactive electronics); 7' 
2013- The Ecstasy of St. Teresa; 2-channel fixed electronics; 7'

Orchestral 
2017- The Dream Deferred; string orchestra and harp; 8’
2015- Shine; symphony orchestra; 3'
2012- Prelude in Tempore Belli; symphony orchestra; 6'

2010- Elegy for Strings; string orchestra; 9'

Wind Band 
2019- how many heartaches?; concert band (Grade 3) ; 5' 
2012-
 Dodekatheon Sketches: Book I; wind ensemble; 15'
2010- Variations on "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"; concert band (Grade 4); 7'

Choral/Chamber Vocal
2019- So I Be Written in the Book of Love; text by Omar Khayyam, trans. Richard Le Gallienne; mixed choir (SSAATTBB); 4'
2016- Called Back; text by Emily Dickinson; four women's voices (SSSM); 10'
2014- Dirge for a Soldier; text by Paul Laurence Dunbar; men's chorus (TTBB) and piano; 8'

2010- Regina Caeli; traditional Latin text; unaccompanied women’s choir (SSAA); 6’

Operatic  
2015- Jonestown: A Multimedia Chamber Opera; libretto by the composer from various texts; 2 sopranos, baritone, chorus; soprano saxophone; alto saxophone; tenor saxophone; baritone saxophone; piano; percussion; 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass; video, and electronics; 90”

Dance/Ballet
(Ongoing)- Sounding Bodies: An Electroacoustic Ballet (see Electroacoustic)

Film/Other
2017- The Impossible Voyage; film by Georges Méliès; 20'
2015- Pralaya (see Solo Instrumental/Concerto)
2015- Jonestown (see Operatic)
2014- Benny (see Solo Instrumental/Concerto)
2012- A Piece of Afternoon; 5'

2010- This is Lawrence: Gravity: 2'
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