FULL ORCHESTRA

  • Sneak In a Window

    • (commissioned by Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Music Festival)

  • Rupture

  • Viral Infection

LARGE ENSEMBLE (9+)

  • Almost As If All At Once, the Heart Too Heavy

    • (after Beckett)

  • Nonet for Strings

    • Grey Air Timeless 

    •  Verge on Verge

    • The Tears of the World are a Constant Quantity

  • In Memory of Anne

    • for double string orchestras and string quartet,

    • commissioned by The Crowden School for their 25th anniversary, dedicated to Anne Crowden

  • Leaving Home for string orchestra (after three paintings by Umberto Boccioni)

    • The Farewell

    • Those Who Go

    • Those Who are Left Behind

  • Team Effort

    • for chorus (Text by Bob Hicok)

  • Towards the New

    • dedicated to my SOTA students, f‘‘or 16 strings

      •  Fair Winds and Following Seas

      • Here Be Dragons

      •  Brave New World

  • The Giant is There,

    • for After Everything, String Orchestra

    • after Wallace Stevens

SMALL ENSEMBLE (3-9) 

  • Strings (bowed)

    • Invocation, for string quartet, commissioned by the Del Sol Quartet for their 20th anniversary

    • Rising Shine, for string quartet

    • Smeared Black Ink, for string quartet

    • Study of Another's Beauty, for string quartet, written for the Habit Quartet, commissioned by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation)

  • Strings (plucked)

    • How to Shatter Light (Homage to Benjamin Britten), for Guitar Trio, commissioned by The Mobius Trio

    • Love that Dirty Water, for woodwind quintet, commissioned by The Banff Festival

Brass

  • Brush Strokes, for brass quintet

  • Fierce Continual Flame, for brass nonet

Percussion

  • Dance Like Mad, for Percussion Trio, commissioned by SF Composers Inc.

  • Broken Prayer, for Taiko Ensemble

Mixed Ensemble

  • Now or Now, for 2 guitars and percussion

  • The She-Wolf, (after Jackson Pollock) for variable ensemble

  • Broadway Boogie Woogie, (after Piet Mondrian) for Clarinet, Cello, Bass, Electric guitar, piano, percussion

  • The Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, (after Mark Rothko) for Flute, Clarinet, violin, cello, bass, electric guitar, keyboard, percussion


Duo (..... 2.....)
Vocal

  • Flockless, for Soprano and Oboe, Text by Jill Ferguson

  • Elemental, for Soprano and piano, Text by Jill Ferguson

  • Song Cycle, for Soprano and Guitar, written for Matt Denman

    • Nothing Gold Can Stay, (Robert Frost)

    • Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Emily Dickinson)

    • The Summer Day (Mary Oliver)

    • Sonnet 30 (William Shakespeare)

    • Magic (Shel Silverstein)

    • For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E. (Mary Oliver)

Instrumental

  • Amongst Resonant Depths, for bassoon and piano

  • Audible Confection 1, for bassoon and violin

  • Audible Confection 2, for trumpet and clarinet

  • Audible Confection 3, for viola and oboe

  • Bumps and Bubbles, for two pianos

  • I Am Alive, for two pianos, written for Michelle and Christina Naughton

  • Late Walk Home, for trumpet and piano

    • Free Floating Anxiety

    • A Couple Tap Dances in the Rain

  • Toy, for two pianos and toy pianos


Solo
Strings (bowed)

  • Frustration, Exhaustion, Tears, and Laughter (after Vonnegut), for solo violin (commissioned by Rick Shinozaki)

  • Insistence, for solo viola, written for Morgan O'Shaughnessey

  • I am Mass and Space, for solo cello, written for Isaac Pastor-Chermak

  • Stations of the Cross, after Barnett Newman, for solo bass, written for Eugéne Thériault

Guitar

  • I Wasted Time, and Now Doth Time Waste Me (after Shakespeare), for guitar, written for Max Zuckerman, Commissioned by the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society

  • Fantasia, for solo guitar

Winds

  • Going Up, for solo flute

  • A Dark and Weary Eye, for solo bassoon, written for Kiel Curtis

Piano

  • Declaration, for Piano Left Hand, dedicated to Kelsey Walsh

  • Licking the Shoulder Blade of Maurice Ravel, for solo piano, dedicated and written for Julia Sheriff

  • Soliloquy for John, commissioned by Sarah Cahill on the occasion of John Adams 60th birthday

Vocal

  • Towards a Higher Cloud, for solo soprano


Other

  • Three Places in the Bay Area, for electronics and film (with Will Yarbrough)