LIST OF WORKS

ORCHESTRA

 

Rust and Stardust

(2015)  
Premiered 2 May 2015 by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, conductor
Tectonics Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

Spinning in Infinity

for orchestra and electronics (2014)  
Premiered 21 February 2015 by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Diego Matheuz, conductor
Festival Présences, Radio France, Paris, France

Westering

for hexaphonic electric guitar and chamber orchestra (2010)  
Premiered 3 December 2010 at Carnegie Hall, New York City

The Geography of Cities on Water

(2009)  
Workshopped and recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic under Michel Tabachnik at TACTUS, January 2011, Brussels, Belgium

Canaries in the Morning, Balloons at Night

(2004)
Commissioned by the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra

Premiered 25 September 2004 in Lafayette, LA

North

(2002-3)
Premiered 17 March 17 2004 at Royal College of Music, London
Also performed at American Composers Orchestra’s Whitaker Reading Sessions, May 20, 2004 at Miller Theater, NYC

History by Moonlight

for orchestra (2003)

Songs from the Plays, Book I

for SATB soloists and chamber orchestra (2002)
Song cycle on poems by Kenneth Koch

LARGE ENSEMBLE

no window without a wall

for thirteen players (flutes, oboe d’amore, clarinets, alto/baritone sax, horn in F, 2 percussionists, harp, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello) (2022)

Premiered 20 May 2022 by Grossman Ensemble, James Baker, conductor
Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL

Unfeeling

for eighteen players (alto flute, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, horn in F, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, harp, harmonium, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass) (2021)

Premiered 29 June 2022 by Klangforum Wien, Bas Wiegers, conductor
Konzerthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria

Rumba Ingombra (Encumbered Rumba)

for fourteen players (2 flutes, bass clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, horn in F, trumpet, two trombones, tuba, electric guitar, electric bass, piano, percussion) (2021)

Premiered 24 November 2021 by orkest de ereprijs, Gregory Charette, conductor
MUSIS, Arnhem, NL

Creux

for twelve players (clarinet, baritone sax, melodica, accordion, harp, Fender Rhodes, cymbalum, mandolin, electric guitar, cello, bass, percussion) plus live electronics (2018)

Premiered 18 May 2018 by Ensemble C Barré and ICE, Sébastien Boin, conductor
Festival Les Musiques, Marseille, France

Stellazione

for ten players (four electric guitars, two electric basses, two pianos, and two percussionists) (2018)

Premiered 21 June 2018 by Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, Tonino Battista, conductor
Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Italy

PolychROME

for ten players (flute, clarinet, horn, accordion, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, and bass ) (2017)

Premiered 25 April 2017 by Ensemble L’Itinéraire and ICE, Jean-Michaël Lavoie, conductor
Roulette, New York, NY

Difficult Places

for twenty-three players (flute, oboe, bass clarinet/tenor sax, alto sax/tubax, bassoon, horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, piano, keyboard, two percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, and bass) plus live electronics (2015)

collaboration with video artist Leonel Dietsche

Premiered 29 November 2015 by Ensemble Modern, Johannes Kalitzke, conductor
cresc… Festival, Hanau, Germany

Convergence Lines

for ten players (flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, harp, percussion, violin, and bass) plus live electronics (2013)
Premiered 23 January 2014 by Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Pierre-André Valade, conductor
Ultraschall Festival, Berlin, Germany

Widening Circles

for eight players (sho, sheng, accordion, bass clarinet, harp, zheng, qanun and santur) plus live electronics (2012)
Premiered 30 August 2012 at Atlas Festival, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam, NL

Anyplace Else

for ten players (flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, piano, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass) (2012)
Premiered 21 July 2012 at IMD, Darmstadt, Germany

Cognitive Consonance

for two plucked-string soloists (qanûn and hexaphonic guitar), ensemble (flute, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp, percussion, violin, cello, bass) and electronics (2010)
Premiered 9 June 2010 at the Agora Festival, 104, Paris, France

Üsküdar

for sixteen players (2 flutes, English horn, 2 clarinets, mandolin, qanun, harp, 3 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass) (2008)
Premiered 4 September 2008 at Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, NL

Sparrow Episodes

for sixteen players (flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, electric guitar, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass) (2006)
Premiered 24 August 2006 at Domaine Forget, St.-Irénée, Québec
Also performed 5 September 2007 at Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, NL

Sing Into My Mouth

for eighteen players (alto flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, and 2 basses) (2005)
Premiered 19 July 2005 at Centre Acanthes, Metz, France
Also performed September 8, 2006 at Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, NL

CHAMBER

Honey Behind the Sun

for electric violin, electric viola, electric cello, electric contrabass, and effects pedals (2021)
Premiered 9 December 2021 by Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Germany

Isolario: Book of Known Islands (Book II)

for string quartet and electronics (2019)
Premiered 4 May 2019 by Spektral Quartet in Chicago, Illinois

Shotgun Shoegaze

for four electric guitars and electronics (2017)
Premiered 21 August 2017 by Zwerm at Ruhrtriennale, Essen, Germany

Isolario: Book of Known Islands (Book I)

for string quartet and electronics (2015)
Premiered 30 September 2015 by Quatuor Béla at MC2, Grenoble, France

Alcohol and Algebra

for two steel-stringed guitars (2015)
Premiered 14 June 2015 by Oh Mensch guitar duo at Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany

Writing Against Time

for two pianists, two percussionists, and electronics (2014)
Premiered 1 May 2014 by Yarn/Wire at Issue Project Room, New York, NY

Visions and Revisions

for string quartet (2013)
Premiered 23 January 2014 by JACK Quartet at Wigmore Hall, London, UK

Passing Through, Staying Put

for piano trio (violin, cello, piano) (2011)
Premiered 14 September 2011 at the The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus

Leaving Lute

for flute, viola, and harp (2011)
Premiered 4 April 2011 at the Tank, New York City

don’t know what alright even means

for A clarinet, harp, piano, viola, cello, and bass (2009)
Premiered 1 July 2009 at Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine

—N’T GO ANY FURTHER

for bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, violin, viola, and cello (2007)
Premiered 30 June 2007 by Ensemble Cairn, Le Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-St.-Denis), France

Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds)

for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, bass, and piano (2003, rev. 2004)   SCORE EXCERPT (PDF)
Premiered 25 January 2005, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Also performed 6 November 2006 by TENM, Innsbruck, Austria

Blues Wrapped Around My Head

for three B flat clarinets and bass clarinet (2004)
Composed for Voix Nouvelles at Royaumont Abbey
Premiered 2 October 2004 by members of Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Asnières-sur-Oise, France

Sunflower Suite

for sextet (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and perc.) (2003)
Premiered 19 June 2003 by members of Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Repeated 20 June 2003 at National Gallery, London, UK
Also performed 13 March 2006 by Earplay, San Francisco, CA

History by Moonlight

for violin, clarinet, and piano (2002)
Premiered 18 May 2002 by Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Boston, MA

“Different Moons”—Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

(1999)
Premiered 30 April 2000 in Cambridge, MA. Gary Gorczyca, clarinet and Sergey Schepkin, piano

Quodlibet with Variations

for ‘cello and piano (1999)
Commissioned by New Music in Provincetown
Premiered 20 June 1999 in Provincetown, MA
Also performed 20 April 2002 by Non-Sequitur Ensemble, Cambridge, MA

VOCAL

the color of where you can never go

for soprano and piano (2022)
Song cycle on text by Rebecca Solnit / Barlow Prize Commission
Premiered 7 April 2023, Seattle, WA by Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano

End Words

for six voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass), and electronics (2017)
Premiered 20 May 2017, New York, NY by Ekmeles, Jeffrey Gavett, conductor

Longue Durée

for voice, accordion, and electronics (2017)
Premiered 3 November 2017 in Clermont-Ferrand by Angèle Chemis, voice / Vincent Lhermet, accordion)

Hafenlieder

for voice, flute, and accordion (2016)
Premiered 17 April 2016 in Berlin by Collect/Project (Frauke Aubert, voice / Shanna Gutierrez, flute / Eva Zöllner accordion)

Waterlines

for mezzo-soprano, guitar, seven instruments (flute, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, viola, cello, and bass), and electronics (2012)
Premiered 26 September 2014, New York, NY by Talea Ensemble with Lucy Dhegrae, soprano, James Baker, conductor

Past All Deceiving: Cavafy Songs

for soprano and seven instruments (flute, clarinet, piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello) (2012)
Song cycle on poems by Constantine P. Cavafy
Premiered 18 March 2012, New York, NY by Argento Ensemble with Margot Rood, soprano, Michel Galante, conductor

Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to

for soprano and piano (1999)
Text by Carl Sandburg
Premiered 12 March 1999 in Boston, MA

Evening: Five Songs by Anna Akhmatova

for soprano, piano, and string trio (1998)
Premiered 2 November1998 in Washington, D. C. by the Contemporary Music Forum
Also performed 19 February 2000 in Boston by Chameleon Arts Ensemble

CHORAL

 

“O now the drenched land wakes”

for double choir a cappella (2006)
Text by Kenneth Patchen
Premiered 4 March 2007 by the Providence Singers in Providence, RI

“The sea is awash with roses”

for men’s choir a cappella (2000)
Text by Kenneth Patchen
Premiered 6 May 2000 by the Harvard Glee Club in Cambridge, MA

ELECTRONICS

Linear A

for Bohlen-Pierce clarinet and electronics (2021) 
Recorded 7 May 2021 by Amy Advocat in Providence, RI

Târgul

for viora cu goarna and electronics (2019) 
Premiered 15 October 2019 by Maximilian Haft in Geneva, Switzerland

Tesserae

for viola d’amore and electronics (2017/8) 
Premiered 12 April 2018 by Marco Fusi at Fondazione Scelsi, Rome, Italy

Horizontal Drift

for quarter-tone guitar and electronics (2016)
Premiered 1 October 2016 by Juuso Nieminen in Helsinki, Finland

Spinning in Infinity

[see above listing under ORCHESTRA]

Westering

[see above listing under ORCHESTRA]

Convergence Lines

[see above listing under LARGE ENSEMBLE]

Writing Against Time

[see above listing under CHAMBER]

Waterlines

[see above listing under VOCAL]

Widening Circles

[see above listing under LARGE ENSEMBLE]

Five Out of Six

for six instruments (oboe, saxophone, piano, perc, violin, cello), live electronics, and live video (by Things Happen)
Premiered 24 March 2012 at Miller Theater, New York, New York

Cognitive Consonance

[see above listing under LARGE ENSEMBLE]

Forty-nine, Forty-nine

for MIDI-controlled Fokker organ (2011)
Premiered 27 February 2011, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Recession

for accordion and live electronics (2009)
Premiered 1 April 2009 by Pierre Cussac, IRCAM, Paris, France

Really Coming Down

for guitar and live electronics (2007)
Premiered 30 June 2007 by Christelle Séry, Le Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-St.-Denis), France

SOLO

Thine Every Flaw

for solo piano (2020) 
Premiered 15 July 2021 by Min Kwon

Single Coil

étude for electric guitar and delay pedal (2018) 
Premiered 25 July 2018 by Sean Rogan at IMD, Darmstadt, Germany

Lost Time Triptych

for piano scordatura (2016) 
Premiered 19 May 2016 by Marilyn Nonken at Tufts University, Medford, MA / 23 May 2016 at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky

for piano solo (2005) 
Commissioned for Sergey Schepkin by the FleetBoston Celebrity Series

Premiered 16 April 2005 at Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

Piano Sonata

(2000)
Premiered 3 August 2000 by Sergey Schepkin as part of the New Orleans, LA International Piano Competition and Keyboard Festival
Also performed at Monadnock Music Festival (Mvt. II in July 2000), in Providence, RI (12 October 2000) and in Boston (NEC, 18 January 2001)

ARRANGEMENTS

Two Folksong Distortions

for voice, violin, and guitar (2015)

I. Wayfaring Stranger

II. Freight Train
Premiered 20 April 2015, Festival Extension, La Muse en Circuit, Paris, France by Tom Pauwels and Liesa Van der Aa.