SELECTED Compositions

Spine

For percussion quartet (2015). Commissioned by the Yale Percussion Group. Duration: ca. 8 min.

Plead

For solo double bass (2016). Composed for Sam Suggs. Duration: ca. 7 min.

Churches Made Out of Shipwrecks

For two percussionists and two pianists. Alternate arrangement available for two percussionists and four-hands piano. Originally commissioned by icarus Quartet (2016). Two percussion/four-hands piano version arranged for the University of Alabama Percussion Ensemble (2020). Duration: ca. 9.5 min.

Promises

For orchestra: 3-3-3-3, 4-3-2-1, timp, 3 perc, pno, harp, e bass, strings (2014). Composed for the Yale Philharmonia. Awarded the 2015 Woods Chandler Memorial Prize from the Yale School of Music for best composition in a larger form. Duration: ca. 9 min.

Vessel Redux

For percussion duo and stereo playback (2018). Commissioned by Infinity Movement. Duration: ca. 6 min.

Touch

For four-hands piano (2016). Commissioned by HOCKET. Duration: ca. 7 min.

Embers

For stereo playback (2016). Stream Album (Spotify).

Quintet

For flute/alto flute, oboe/English horn, bass clarinet, horn, bassoon (2016). Composed for The Videnia Quintet. Duration: ca. 9 min.

Envelope Writings

I. But are not all Facts Dreams
II. A great Hope fell

For solo soprano, SATB choir, and chamber ensemble: fl, cl, hn, tbn, perc, pno, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb (2015, rev. 2017). Commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival's Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop. Simon Carrington, conductor. Sarah Yanovitch, soprano. Duration: ca. 9 min.

Short Movement Written During a Snowstorm

For percussion quartet (2015)

Rose

Solo for Clavinet, synthesizer, and stereo playback (2014, rev. 2016). Duration: ca. 7 min. Stream Album (Spotify).

Big Things

Version 1 (Original): For electric guitar, electric bass, piano, vibraphone, percussion (2014). Awarded First Prize in the 2016 ShoutHouse Call for Scores. Duration: ca. 10 min. Stream Album (Spotify).

Version 2: For two percussionists and two pianists (2021). Commissioned by icarus Quartet.

Tell hope everything you hear

For prepared steel-string acoustic guitar and stereo playback (2012). Composed for the 2012 highSCORE Festival. Awarded the 2012 highSCORE Prize for best composition. Duration: ca. 4 min. Stream Album (Spotify).

Dear Master / I am ill

For voice and piano (2012). Duration: ca. 4 min.

For soprano voice and piano [4 min]. Written for the Tufts Composers Emily Dickinson Project. Premiered by Sarah Pelletier (voice) and Lois Shapiro (piano) at the Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University, on March 7, 2012. Program Note: The section of text used in this song is from the first of Emily Dickinson's three Master Letters. In these letters, Dickinson wrote to a man to whom she referred only as, "Master." There is no evidence that these letters were ever mailed, and they were only discovered after her death. Text: Dear Master I am ill - but grieving more that you are ill, I make my stronger hand work long eno' to tell you - I thought perhaps you were in Heaven, and when you spoke again, it seemed quite sweet, and wonderful, and surprised me so - I wish that you were well. - Emily Dickinson

Opiated Daydream

For solo piano (2011). Composed for John McDonald. Duration: ca. 5 min.

For solo piano [5 min]. Premiered by John McDonald at the Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University, on October 28, 2011. Program Note: This little piece is my impression of a post-surgical experience with painkillers.