Music

COMPOSITIONS:

Concert Music Compositions:

Large Ensemble:

  • Celestial Bodies in Motion (2024); for wind ensemble (2 flute, oboe, clarinet, soprano and alto sax, trumpet, horn, and two percussionists), 6 mins score
  • Oil and Vinegar (2024); for wind symphony, 5 min score
  • After These Messages (We’ll Be Right Back!) (2023); for symphony orchestra, 5 min
  • Symphony #1 “Unrequited” (2005; 2014) for 2-2-2-2; 2-2-2-1; 2 perc and strings; 15 min

Small Ensemble without electronics:

  • The Eclectic Poetic (2025); for mixed ensemble, 5 min, Premiere New Music New Mexico Spring 2025
  • Many, Many Microbes (2025); for any solo saxophone, (19 parts, each part between 2-4 min), Partial Premiere New Music New Mexico Spring 2025
  • Mercurial (2025); for bass clarinet, double bass and piano, 8 min
  • For Madeleine L’Engle (2024); for four percussionists on two vibraphones, 4 min
  • For Flannery O’Connor (2024); for four woodwind instruments, 3 min
  • everytime i see you smile my heart breaks a little (2024); for flute and marimba, 8 min score
  • For Toni Morrison (2024); for three treble instruments; 3 min, Premiere New Music New Mexico Spring 2024 score
  • Collage #4 (2023); for solo cello, 3 min
  • Collage #3 (2023); for double bass and voice, 6 min, Premiere “Restoring Voices” at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology UNM, September 2023
  • Amalgamation (2023); for reed quintet, 4 min, 2023 Donald Robb Trust Symposium score
  • metal.alloy.001 (2022); for Sam Lutz, for spatial horn and percussion, 4 min; Premiere New Music New Mexico Spring 2022
  • Now That’s What I Call Classical Music! (2022); for Judith Gordon, for toy piano, 2 min; Premiere Chatter Late Works December 2022
  • STOP / MOTION (2022); inspired by itinerant Shadows by Anila Quayyum Agha, any number of players, improvised, approximately 5 min; Premiere UNM Composition Studio Recital
  • Secret Piece #3 (2022), for mixed quartet; ~6 mins; Premiere 2022 New Music New Mexico
  • Bittersweet Miniatures (2021); for mixed quartet (tenor voice, clarinet, bass clarinet and piano); 4 min; UNM Composition Studio Recital
  • Mideast Dialogues (2021); for Persian santour and Bb clarinet; 6 min; UNM Composition Studio Recital
  • Heterogeneity  (2020); for acoustic guitar; 11 min, 2021 Donald Robb Trust Symposium UNM score
  • Hilde und Sabine: Zartbitter (2020); for solo harpist with drone; 5 min 2021 Donald Robb Trust Symposium UNM
  • 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), for harp and double bass, 4 min; Premiere 2011, Pearson Hall, Houston, TX
  • the impermanence of beauty (2010), for 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
  • 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
  • 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

Small Ensemble with electronics:

  • Shouting into the Abyss (2024); for flute with video and electronics, 5 min score
  • Counterfactual (2023); for 2 electric guitars, electric bass, drum set and fixed media; 10 mins, New Music New Mexico Fall 2023

Choral:

  • I Wear an Artichoke Heart on My Head (2022); on a poem by Josh Tvrdy, for Ekmeles Ensemble (six singers); 5 min; 2022 (choral arrangement 2024), Donald Robb Trust Symposium UNM

Vocal:

  • This Land (2024); for Loadbang (baritone, trumpet, trombone and bass clarinet); 5 min, Premiere 2024 Donald Robb Trust Symposium UNM
  • You’re Not A Girl … Just Now (2022); for Loadbang (baritone voice, trumpet, trombone and bass clarinet); 3 min; 2022 Donald Robb Trust Symposium UNM
  • Aesop’s Animals (2004) for six solo singers and mixed octet (opt puppets); 25 min; Premiere, 2004, Studio Theatre, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois

JAZZ COMPOSITIONS:

Big Band

  • Linear Antithesis (funk) (2025)
  • Conjunto Contigo (salsa) (2024)
  • Anti-War Trilogy (1. Child Soldier (march), 2. Who’s Shootin’ The Civvies? (funk), 3. Polarize to Destabilize (hip hop)) (2023)
  • My College Is Better (2005)
  • Evading the Grasp of the Mighty Mephistopheles (funk) (2004)

Brass Band

  • 505 (2024)
  • Pour (2024)
  • Beef Steak (2022)
  • Carry Me to My Grave (2012) link

Small Group

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