For Solo Guitar Commissioned for TengYue Zhang with support from the Augustine Foundation Program note Sonnets are about fourteen, and the truth that makes the…
Thirteen Ways to Fly With a Blackbird
Prelude, Dream and Fugue
For Viola and Piano World premiere: April 15th 2018 Erika Gray, viola Janice Carissa, piano Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music Student Recital Program…
NOSE ON FIRE
For Clarinet and Piano Some say that a composer’s unconscious state of mind finds ways to shape a composition. That may be true. Around the time…
MEMORIES OF THAT FIRST SUMMER
Six Miniature Pieces for Piano For Young Pianists and Their Whimsical Dreams Time is never linear in dreamland. Distant times visit us in form…
SERENADE IN ISOLATION
For Solo Violin Commissioned by Music-Theatre Group, this work is a part of chamber opera FLOWN. A few years ago, Music-Theatre Group commissioned me to…
IT RAINED ON SHAKOPEE
Did you know that every prisoner at Shakopee can tell which guard is approaching by the sound of the guard’s jingling keys? Premiere: Thu, July…
Game For Two
for Two Pianos Commissioned by Music-Theatre Group
FROM THE LAND FALLEN
Updated 2017 “Think of it as ‘V for Vendetta’ of opera, but it’s framed as a story about a troubled marriage under the totalitarian rule…