The Rat Land (work in progress)
A chamber opera for 8 singers and an orchestra of 13, in four scenes plus a prologue, interlude and epilogue.

Rites of Summer (2007)
For flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion.
Duration: 25 min.
Commissioned by 20th Century Unlimited for the California E.A.R. Unit.
Premiere: May 14, 2007, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA.

For Once, Then, Something (2007)
Score for live piano and recorded electronics, written for Anita Cheng Dance; premiere May 31, June 1-2, 2007, Mulberry Street Theater, New York, NY. Duration: 20 min.

Brass Quintet (2007)
For brass quintet
Duration: 15 minutes. Commissioned by the American Brass Quintet with funds from the Jerome Foundation. Premiere in 2008.

Passages (2006)
For recorder quartet
Duration: 14 min.
Commissioned by Concert Artists Guild
Written for Quartet New Generation; premiere February 8, 2007

String Quartet (2006) [listen to the 1st movement]
in two movements (15')
premiere: August 6, 2006 at the Deer Valley Chamber Music Festival, Park City, Utah with the California Quartet

Transparent Paths (2005) [listen to the 3rd movement]
for flute/picc/alto, elec. guitar, cello and percussion
in 4 movements (2, 7, 7 and 5 minutes)
written for choreographer Estelle Woodward
premiere: October 21-22, 2005 at the Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY

Reliquary (2005)
For flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello, percussion, and piano
Duration: 23 min.
Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Music
Written for eighth blackbird [read about upcoming performances]

West of Winter (2004)
For four sopranos
Duration: 15 min.
Written for Anita Cheng Dance
Premiere: January 13-14-15-16, 2005, at the Joyce SoHo, New York, with soprano Lisa Bielawa (cd recording by Seth Misterka)

City Shore (2003)
Dance score for solo piano
Duration: 11 min.
Written for Anita Cheng Dance
Premiere January 9-10-11, 2003, at the Merce Cunningham Studio, New York with GB, piano. Additional performances March 4-5-6-7, 2004 at Danspace, NYC.

Morbidity and Mortality Report (2002)
For full orchestra
Duration: 10 min.
Commissioned by the BMI Foundation / Carlos Surinach Fund for David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: March 14, 2003 at the Troy Savings Bank Hall, Troy, NY. Second performance by the New England Philharmonic, Richard Pittman, music director, Tsai Performance Center, Boston, Mass., May 1, 2004.

Phenomena (2000-2002)
For solo piano
Duration: 37 minutes
Commissioned by Linda and Jack Hoeschler for Concert Artists’ Guild with additional support from Premiere Commission, Inc.

Safe, This Dangerous Night (2000)
for solo guitar
Commissioned by guitarist David Leisner
duration: 9 min
Premiered by Leisner November 29, 2000 at Jordan Hall, Boston. Further performances by Leisner: March 10, 2001 at the Greenwich House Music School, New York; May 18, 2001 at the 19th International Guitar Festival, Milan, Italy; May 21, 2001 at Fondazione Arts Academy, Rome, Italy

San Francisco Songs (1998-2000)
words by Jane Barnes
for tenor and full orchestra. also version for piano
duration: 25 min.
Premiered by Tony Boutté, tenor, and Gordon Beeferman, piano, at Greenwich House Music School, March 10, 2001. Excerpts performed at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, August 10, 2001.

Piano Quartet (1998)
for piano, violin, viola, and cello
Commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony
duration: 8 min.
Premiered at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, April 7, 1999 by members of the NY Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program. Second performance at the Greenwich House Music School, March 10, 2001

The Greek Gaze (1998)
"mini-opera" for 3 women, 2 men,
electric guitar, electric bass, and drums
duration: 4 min.
Premiered by "Caterwaul" at the University of Michigan, March 27, 1998.

Sesame Street Variations (1998)
for piano solo, based on themes from the television
series "Sesame Street”
duration: 14 min.
Premiered by Gordon Beeferman at the University of Michigan, April 26, 1998

Symphony #1 (1996-97)
for full orchestra
duration: 23 min. (in 3 movements)
Winner of 1998 BMI Student Composer Award.
Third movement, "La Aurora (The Dawn In New York)" premiered by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, April 11, 1999; second performance by the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra, Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, May 16, 1999. First and second movements premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra at their reading sessions, March 13, 2002, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN.

Sonata Bombastica (1996)
for violin and piano
duration: 9 min.
Winner of BMG/Williams College National Young Composers Award and ASCAP Award.
Premiered February 10, 1997 at the University of Michigan by violinist Gabriel Bolkosky and Gordon Beeferman at the piano. Second performance at Berkshire New Music Festival, Williamstown, Mass. Third performance at Weill Recital Hall, New York City, January 19, 1999 by Doris Stevenson and Maria Bachman. Further performances: May 24, 2001 at New York University's Loeb Theater by Composers Concordance.

Three Night Moods (1995-96)
for two harps and two percussion
duration: 18 min
Premiered April 14, 1997 at the University of Michigan. Version for two pianos and percussion premiered July 17, 1996 at the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music.

Now No One Will Listen To Songs (1995)
for bass-baritone, B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; settings of Russian texts by Akhmatova, Bobyshev, Lermontov, and Mandelstam.
Winner of BMI Student Composer Award.
First complete performance by Collage New Music with bass-baritone David Ripley, at the C. Walsh Theater in Boston, Mass., March 31, 1996.

Anonymous Lyrics (1994)
for soprano and piano, settings of anonymous ancient Greek texts translated by Richmond Lattimore
duration: 5 min.
Premiered September 15, 1996 at the Society for New Music, Syracuse, NY, by soprano Jane Rodgers and pianist Kevin Bylsma.