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SELECTED COMPOSITIONS 2007 New One Act Opera (in progress) - Commissioned by London's Second Movement - Text by David Cote New Piece (in progress) For bass clarinet, baritone saxophone and cello - Written for the Lo Trio New Piece (in progress) For mandolin and guitar - Written for the Duo Ahlert & Schwab "SuperSoft" (10 minutes) For cello and percussion - Written for Odd Appetite "Fuse Action" (7 minutes) For flute and clarinet - Written for the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble "I Would Prefer Not To" (6 minutes) For soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, synthesizer, electric guitar, vibraphone - Arranged for Newspeak - Originally commissioned by Sequitur "Everywhere Feathers" (8 minutes) For soprano and electric guitar - Arranged for Ursula's End (David and Holly Nadal) 2006 "Restless Legs" (14 minutes) For the Bang on a Can All-Stars (clarinet, piano, electric guitar, cello, percussion, contrabass) - Commissioned by the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund "Everywhere Feathers" (8 minutes) For voice, cello, and pre-recorded audio. - Text by Anna Rabinowitz. - Written for Jody Redhage, voice/cello "Galesburg, Illinois (Where Are the Trees?)" (6 minutes) for soprano and piano - Written for Dorothea Tanning Tribute - Text by Dorothea Tanning "Galesburg, Illinois (Where Are the Trees?)" (6 minutes) For soprano, flute, clarinet, electric guitar, piano, contrabass - Arranged for the NOW Ensemble - Text by Dorothea Tanning 2005 Darkling (75 minutes) An opera/theater piece for four voices and string quartet - Commissioned by the American Opera Projects - From the book by Anna Rabinowitz. Adapted by Michael Comlish. - Selected to be part of the Guggenheim Museum’s "Works & Process" series - The show also features a song for baritone and piano, "The Darkling Thrush," by Lee Hoiby. Skin Nails Hair (14 minutes) For flute and percussion - Written for the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble 2004 The Bird Happened (11 minutes) For orchestra - Selected for the American Composers Orchestra's 2005 Underwood New Music Readings - Read by the New Jersey Symphony Orchstra Crash (9 minutes) For string trio - Commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival in honor of George Crumb's 75th birthday - Premiered by the Third Angle New Music Ensemble Meetings
(20 minutes) For
soprano, baritone, and bass with piano "Vanshing Point" (Text by Sean Mills) "Urban Trees" (Text by Jon Stokes, UK Tree Council; adapted by the composer) "Twinkie" (Text by Hostess) - Written for the American Opera Projects' "Composer and the Voice" Non-Fiction 2 (15 minutes) Three songs for high voice and piano "I Would Prefer Not To" (Public Domain) - Commissioned by Sequitur "Beauty Tips (for Girls)" (Text by Lorene Radenz; adapted by the composer) "Law of the Jungle 1" (Based on a 01/09/02 story in The Daily Mirror; adapted by the composer) - Written for the American Opera Projects' "Composer and the Voice" 2003 Ad Lib (10 minutes) For solo organ - Premiered by David Messineo Hammer Time (8 minutes) For solo piano - Premiered by Lisa Moore TOE (Theory of Everything) (15 minutes) For soprano saxophone (or clarinet) and vibraphone - Premiered by Yesaroun’ Duo 2002 0123
(5 minutes) "Index Card" music for solo saxophone "Coney’s
Mind" Music for dance - Collaboration with Linda Ganjian, video artist; Susanna Speier, writer The Twins (15 minutes) For two flutes and organ - Premiered by Laura Ronai and Tom Moore with David Messineo 2001 "Calabi Yau" (aka What the Fuck is String Theory?) Incidental music for theater - Collaboration with Susanna Speier David and Jonathan (20 minutes) For men’s choir and orchestra. - Commissioned and premiered by the Gay Gotham Chorus with the Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Babcock 2000 Big Red (20 minutes) For clarinet solo - Premiered by Meighan Stoops, Da Capo Chamber Players Bleed: Redrum, Liquid Blues and The Green Machine (12 minutes) Video art - Collaboration with Jillian Mcdonald Two Shakespeare Songs (6 minutes) 1999 "Greenland Y2K" Incidental music for theater - Collaboration with Susanna Speier Ha! (14 minutes) For mezzo-soprano and string quartet Light, light, light, light, light (6 minutes) For a cappella choir (SATB) - Commissioned and premiered by the Battell Chapel Choir conducted by Stephen Black - First-prize winner in Roger Wagner Center’s Choral Composition Competition Stick-Shift Confessions (25 minutes) For marimba solo - Commissioned by Minimum Security Composers Collective - Premiered by Paul Fadoul 1998 What the Water Gave Me (5 minutes) For carillon - Published in Albany Carillon Book 1997 The Fishtank Sonata (15 minutes) For tape and snare drum 1996 Nervous People (25 minutes) For trumpet and string quartet - Premiered at a Bang on a Can Marathon Concert by the Miró Quartet with Tom Hoyt, trumpet Trumpet (12 minutes) for string quartet 1995 The Book of Rejected Addresses (25 minutes) For viola and piano 1994 ...and sometimes they come back (13 minutes) For orchestra - Commissioned and premiered by the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra conducted by Luis Garcia-Renart Rope
(10 minutes) For soprano and chamber orchestra
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