Chamber Music

My chamber music remains some of my most intimate and exploratory music. In writing for small instrument (and voice) combinations, I am able to explore smaller details of harmony and timbral expression. Some of my best “watershed” works are found in this category.

If I Shall Ever Return Home:
Seven Chinese Poems
(tenor and piano)
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Phos Hilaron
(violin and cello)
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Oil and Water
(trombone, euphonium, and vibraphone)
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The Gates of Horn and Ivory
(violin, bass clarinet, and piano)
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    Couch Surfers!

    Ongoing – I am writing music for a very different kind of project: the webseries Couch Surfers! Kind of a little bit of everything (even a Wagnerian forest moment in one episode) but mostly a lot of punk rock surf with guitar help from my friend Carleton Ingram. www.couchsurferstv.com

    May 20-21, 2011

    Taffety Punk Theatre Company presented a new collaboration between myself and choreographer Micheline Heal featuring music for piano, cello, and live computer-generated sound. The new piece, Garden for Wayward Girls was on the finale concert for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s three-week long modern dance event, “Dance Craze”.

    April 28, 2011

    Thursday, April 28, 7:30 PM at Oakdale Emory Church in Olney, MD: the very talented singers performed the new commission A Song for Peace as the first piece on their spring concert.