Music

COMPOSITIONS:

  • Oil and Vinegar (2024); for wind symphony, 5 min score
  • For Toni Morrison (2024); for three treble instruments; 3 min score
  • This Land (2024); for Loadbang (baritone, trumpet, trombone and bass clarinet); 5 min
  • Collage #4 (2023); for solo cello, 3 min
  • Counterfactual (2023); for 2 electric guitars, electric bass, drum set and fixed media; 10 mins.
  • Collage #3 (2023); for double bass and voice, 6 min
  • Amalgamation (2023); for reed quintet, 4 min score
  • After These Messages (We’ll Be Right Back!) (2023); for symphony orchestra, 5 min
  • metal.alloy.001 (2022); for Sam Lutz, for spatial horn and percussion, 4 min
  • Now That’s What I Call Classical Music! (2022); for Judith Gordon, for toy piano, 2 min
  • STOP / MOTION (2022); inspired by itinerant Shadows by Anila Quayyum Agha, any number of players, improvised, approximately 5 min
  • I Wear an Artichoke Heart on My Head (2022); text from Josh Tvrdy, for Ekmeles (vocal sextet); 5 min
  • You’re not a girl … just now (2022); text from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, for Loadbang (baritone, trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet); 4 min
  • Mideast Dialogues (2021); for Bb clarinet and Persian santour; 8 min score
  • Collage #2 (2021); for solo trumpet, 3 min
  • Bittersweet Miniatures (2021); for mixed quartet; 4 min
  • Heterogeneity (2020); for acoustic guitar; 11 min score
  • Hilde und Sabine: Zartbitter (2020); for solo harpist with drone; 5 min
  • Self-Portrait in Nine Styles (2019), two horns, 5 min, Premiere 2019, UNM Composition Recital
  • INFINITE JEST (2012), solo piano, 8 min; Premiere 2012; Houston Composer’s Salon
  • Collage 1 (2012), double bass and piano, 5 min; Premiere 2012; Houston Composer’s Salon
  • Clumsily, I walk with You (2011), harp and double bass, 4 min; Premiere 2011, Pearson Hall, Houston, TX
  • the impermanence of beauty (2010), harp and trumpet, 5 min; Premiere 2011, Pearson Hall, Houston, TX
  • interpunct (2009), oboe, trumpet/double bass, piano,  ~15 min [indeterminate]; Premiere 2009; Khon’s Coffee Wine Darts Art, Houston, TX
  • Music for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (2009); 15 min, Premiere 2011, Pearson Hall, Houston, TX
  • Rufus, Javier and Sven Chase a Chicken Through a Church (2009) for tenor and bass trombones; 4 min; Premiere 2009, Eastman Summer Trombone Institute
  • The Parrot (2008) for four improvisers; ~18 min [indeterminate]
  • Piano Trio #1 “The Mutant Crab and the Minotaur” (2008; 2019) for piano, violin and cello; 9 min Premiere 2011, Pearson Hall, Houston, TX
  • Jewish Food (2006) for woodwind quintet; 9 min
  • Symphony #1 “Unrequited” (2005; 2014) for 2-2-2-2; 2-2-2-1; 2 perc and strings; 15 min
  • Aesop’s Animals (2004) for six solo singers and mixed octet (opt puppets); 25 min; Premiere, 2004, Studio Theatre, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
  • Theme and Variations (2004) for string quartet and fixed media 3 min
  • For Carole Maso (2004) for trumpet quartet; 3 min; Premiere 2009; Around Hear, Houston
  • Star Spangled Banner (arrangement) (2003) for brass quintet; 2 min; Premiere 2004, Knox College, Spring Student Recitals
  • Doug in Hades (2003) for trumpet (doubling vocals), trombone, and double bass; 5 min; Premiere 2003, Knox College, New Music Concert
  • Hypnotic (2003; part 4 in 2007) for brass quintet; 10 min
  • Confession and Meditation (2002) for brass quintet; 5 min; Premiere 2002, Knox College, New Music Concert
  • Drone! (2002) for trumpet, double bass, and drum set; 2 min; Premiere 2002, Cherry Street, Galesburg, IL score

JAZZ COMPOSITIONS:

Big Band

  • Anti-War Trilogy (1. Child Soldier (march), 2. Who’s Shootin’ The Civvies? (funk), 3. Polarize to Destabilize (hip hop)) (2023)
  • Evading the Grasp of the Mighty Mephistopheles (funk) (2004)
  • My College Is Better (2005)

Small Group

  • Addicted To Ignorance (latin) (2003)
  • After Curfew (ballad) (2008)
  • Better Late (swing) (2004)
  • Brontosaurus (funk) (2004)
  • But I’m Only A Hamster (swing) (2001)
  • Carry Me to My Grave (shuffle) (2012)
  • Dilapidated Shack (bossa/funk) (2001)
  • Evading the Grasp of the Mighty Mephistopheles (funk) (2003)
  • Follow that Garbage Truck! (funk) (2013)
  • Gene Kelly (swing) (2006)
  • Gustav Escapes (swing) (2003)
  • Hurtful Desolation (rock) (2004)
  • I’ve Tried (ballad) (2001)
  • Immaturity Dance (or My College Is Better Than Your College) (swing) (2003)
  • Interjection (rock) (2003)
  • Legend of a Forgotten Hero (latin) (2003)
  • Montenegro (rock) (2010)
  • Queso-idad (latin) (2014)
  • Second Chances (swing/bossa) (2009)
  • This Is NOT Your Normal Jazz Song (rock) (2003)
  • Three Toed Sloth (swing) (2000)
  • Toot Your Own (swing) (2009)
  • Vicissitude (shuffle) (2003)
  • Waiting for Love (ballad) (2005)
  • You Sexy Pheromone (funk) (2001)
  • Zornophilia (latin/swing) (2003)