WORKS
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) For 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
Winds
- 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)