chamber works
Staring Into Water
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Written for soprano, mezzo-soprano, piano, and e bow
Commissioned by NYFOS for the NYFOS Next Festival 2026, about the gayest pair of clownfish.
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Year Composed 2026 Length approx. 5min |
Birdman: The Free-Flying Circuit
Written for flute, bassoon, violin/viola, piano, and percussion I thought it would be fun to imagine what it might feel like to fly :). |
Year Composed 2025 Length approx. 8min |
Lake Tear of the Clouds
Written for string quartet and bassoon Inspired by a tarn of the same name in the Adirondack Mountains, often cited as the top of the Hudson River. |
Year Composed 2024 Length approx. 12min |
Watermelons!
Written for english horn, contrabassoon, vibraphone, piano, and viola Inspired by the structure and pleochroism of Watermelon Tourmaline crystals. Pleochroism is when a substance shines a different color at different angles under polarized light. Habit: acicular, massive Luster: vitreous Cleavage: Indistinct Fracture: irregular, small conchoidal System: hexagonal Formula: A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z Colors: green edge and pink center, transparent between both colors |
Year Composed 2024 Length approx. 9min |
The Maturity in Warm Lights
Written for english horn, bassoon, piano, and viola Inspired by the structure and pleochroism of Zircon crystals; pleochroism is when a substance shines a different color at different angles under polarized light. Habit: tabular to prismatic Luster: adamantine Cleavage: indistinct Fracture: conchoidal to irregular System: tetragonal Formula: ZrSiO4 Colors: orangy-brown to orangy-red [weak pleochroism] |
Year Composed 2023 Length approx. 10min |
blue
Written for mezzo-soprano, cello, and oboe An exploration of deconstructed text, using a definition of Blue from Princeton University's online dictionary, WordNet. (adj) gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited (filled with melancholy and despondency) Princeton University "Blue." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010. |
Year Composed 2023 Length approx. 2-3min |
Windowpane
Written for piano quintet Inspired by blue and iridescent bird feathers, which are primarily colored by the structure of their melanin and keratin rather than pigment |
Year Composed 2022 Length approx. 6min |
New York Movie, 1939
Written for string quartet Inspired by Edward Hopper's New York Movie, painted in 1939 |
Year Composed 2022 Length approx. 4min |
My Neighbor's Flowers
Written for flute, bass clarinet (Bb), viola, cello, acoustic guitar, 4 octave vibraphone |
Year Composed 2022 Length approx. 6min |
Lemonade
Written for string quartet An exploration of biological phenomena as the 'program' for programmatic work, detailing kleptoplasty, the digestion and use of nematocysts and latrunculin A, and reproduction as seen in various sea slugs and nudibranchs |
Year Composed 2021 Length approx. 5-6min |
Eagles
Written for woodwind quintet Inspired by the Cranbrook House and Gardens in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
Year Composed 2021 Length approx. 9min |