Compositions

Rock operas for piano and voice (2003-2013)

These started during a sabbatical/period of unemployment and continued for the next 10 years.

Podcast suites (2007)

Written as source material for a coworker who needed interstitial background music.

Orchestral and chamber works (2019-)

After a long period away from composition and performance because of hand dystonia, I returned in order to write orchestral and chamber music as a creative outlet. All cover art is from my personal collection.

Three Pieces for Orchestra (Apr 2020)

Three Pieces for Orchestra (Apr 2020)

  1. “in this time of quarantine”
  2. the djinn
  3. breathe
Cover: Andrew Kosten, Ghosts, 2015

Symphony No. 1 “The War” (Jun 2020-Feb 2021)

Symphony No. 1 “The War” (Jun 2020-Feb 2021)

1st movement: what if this happened?
2nd movement: I am now
Interlude: “everything was forever until it was no more”
3rd movement: an occupying army
4th movement: decades had passed

Cover: Chris Strawbridge, Yoru (Night), ca. 2012

String Quartet No. 1 (15 May 2021⁠–3 Aug 2021)

String Quartet No. 1 (15 May 2021⁠–3 Aug 2021)

  1. the grounded earth
  2. ἔσονται (they will be)
Cover: Suzan Woodruff, Monsoon I, 2003

Suite for Turntables and Piano (11 Aug 2021–9 Feb 2022)

Suite for Turntables and Piano (11 Aug 2021–9 Feb 2022)

  1. Prelude (3:00)
  2. ich fühle luft (5:25)
  3. Barcarolle I/II (6:38)
  4. Synchronic/Diachronic (2:48)
  5. “Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key” (4:28)
Cover: section from an original Japanese movie poster for Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai / ずべ公番長 ざんげの値打もない) (1971)

String Quartet No. 2 “heat death” (23 Feb 2022–5 May 2022)

String Quartet No. 2 “heat death” (23 Feb 2022–5 May 2022)

  1. quantum foam (state 1, state 2, state 3) (12:44)
  2. heat death (9:03)
Cover: Suzan Woodruff, Monsoon I, 2003

Suite for Orchestra: Figures in a Landscape

Suite for Orchestra: Figures in a Landscape (16 May 2022 to 3 Feb 2024)

  1. march
  2. village I
  3. helicopter I
  4. crawl I
  5. fire
  6. boat
  7. mountain I
  8. village II
  9. mountain II
  10. rain
  11. fissure
  12. crawl II
  13. helicopter II
  14. “we’d never have got”
Cover: Jim Aitchison Correspondence Fields, oil pastel and graphite on paper, 2021