in progress

baritone & 2 microtonal keyboards
tbd

as above, so below

An exploration of shimmer and symmetry
Written for Jeffrey Gavett

2022

solo violin
2’

for austin

A winter meditation—dark days, dark harmonies…
Written for Austin Wulliman

2022

voice & piano
1’

a cloud

A moment from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Written for Kate Maroney

2022

string quartet
14’

we were happy were we

A naive harmony of the spheres, built from scales rising and falling
Written for the Aizuri Quartet

2021

vocal quartet
(sop, mez, bar, bass)
7’

2021

solo performer, electronics, video
75’

2021

string quartet
3’

mirrors

An arrangement of movement 4 of embers (2021)

2021

violin & viola
24’

2020

flute & piano
11’

2019

voice & piano
5’

desire

A satirical song built from audio-to-MIDI transcriptions of spoken anagrams and near-rhymes about desire
Written for Lucy Dhegrae

2018

digital piano trio
30'

Places We Know

A digital piano trio featuring microtonal tunings derived from field recordings made in New York City and Kentucky
Commissioned by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

1. Muscota
2. Beargrass
3. Red Hook
4. Chenoweth
5. Coleman

2016-17

large ensemble
24'

Wilderness of Woe

A piece based on remixed audio from recordings of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys
Commissioned jointly by Roulette, with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation, and Contemporaneous
16 players: flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet in Bb, alto saxophone, bassoon, horn, trumpet in Bb, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, violin I, violin II, viola, cello, double bass

1. Wheel Hoss (14')
2. Wayfaring Stranger (10')

2017

voice & piano
6'

Resignation

A re-working of words and music from the traditional hymn, "My Shepherd Will Provide My Need"
Written for Lucy Dhegrae

2016

open instrumentation
variable

2015

bass clarinet
7'

Separate Rooms

A piece for dance, exploring subtle timbral variation in repeated pulses
Commissioned by the Charles & Joan Gross Family Foundation for Periapsis Music & Dance

2015

baritone saxophone
17'

The Carolina Lady

A piece based on remixed audio from a 1967 recording of folksinger Dillard Chandler
Made possible by a grant from the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation

2015

violin & piano
12'

Thousands of Years to Make It What It Was

A piece inspired by a Wendell Berry poem about an eroded field slowly healing itself
Commissioned by the BMI Foundation Carlos Surinach Fund for Concert Artists Guild. Written for Alexi Kenney

2015

soprano & piano
8.5'

Two Songs from The Cold Pane

Arrangements of two songs from a cycle of five on poems by Wendell Berry about death
Commissioned by the Bard College Conservatory of Music Graduate Vocal Arts Program

2014

open instrumentation
5'

Far Away

A piece written for young musicians that explores rich textures through indeterminacy and improvisation
Commissioned by the Bard College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division

2014

soprano & fixed media
4.5'

Träumerei

A dream involving what seems like a game of hide and seek, with echoes of Schumann
Commissioned by Ariadne Greif for the Dreams & Nightmares project

2014

opera in one act
42'

Payne Hollow

A love story, a ghost story, and a tribute to lives lived in harmony with the land
four voices (two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, baritone), orchestra, and fixed media
Libretto by Wendell Berry, after his play, “Sonata at Payne Hollow.”
Commissioned by the Bard College Conservatory of Music Graduate Vocal Arts Program, with help from the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists

2013

soprano & chamber ensemble
17'

The Cold Pane

A cycle of five songs on poems by Wendell Berry about death
soprano and chamber ensemble (clarinet in B-flat, mandolin, violin, double bass)
Written for Dawn Upshaw. Commissioned by Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

1. It Is Almost Spring Again
2. The Cold Pane
3. Raindrops
4. The Widower
5. Again

2012

voice & piano
2'

In the Name of the Bee

A brief prayer-in-song on a text by Emily Dickinson
Written for Lucy Dhegrae

2011

soprano & ensemble
20'

Letters Made with Gold

Three songs about being in love, and knowing that you and your beloved must die
9 players: flute, clarinet in B-flat, bass clarinet, percussion (medium tambourine, three-octave melodica), tenor banjo/mandolin, violin, viola, cello, double bass

Commissioned by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
World premiere given by The Dawn Upshaw––Donnacha Dennehy Professional Training Workshop Ensemble in Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City

1. My luve is like a red, red rose
2. And am I born to die?
3. My dearest dear

2010

string quartet
11'

Thy Wondering Eyes

The string quartet as Old Regular Baptist congregation, singing a distorted "hymn"
Written for the JACK Quartet

2009

violin & cello
7'

2008

chamber ensemble
10'

Poor & Wretched

A piece that treats the ensemble like an Old Regular Baptist congregation, lining out a hymn
11 players: flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, contrabassoon, horn, trombone, violin I, violin II, viola, cello, double bass
Written for the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble

2007

soprano & double bass
9'

In Old Virginny

A newly-composed setting of a text from Cecil Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
Written for Duo Borealis

2006

soprano & double bass
6'

2005

violin
12'