Works

Dear patient performers: I am gradually moving my catalog into a flexible and searchable database so you can easily find what you are looking for. Currently you can search through nearly one hundred pieces by various different criteria, including size of ensemble, instrumentation, length, and so on. In addition, you are welcome to browse the list of works for pieces that aren’t yet published. Please get in touch if you’d like help finding something specific. And when you perform any of these pieces, please let me know.

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Peace (Pascal)

one of a projected series of settings of the poetry of Bill Knott


A Solemn Shyness

a solo piano piece inspired by a fragment of Emily Dickinson


What would the Either be?

a piece for live violin, electronically transformed violin sounds, and optional video


Be Like Water

for viola, percussion, and track


Hard4the$

a piece for solo flute and pre-recorded track that explores the current gender and racial pay gap in the United States


Who Else

a small piece for spoken voice and piano


Ascension

a song for soprano and pre-recorded track, Mary ushers the repentant Faust into the light…


None More Than You

a choral piece on a text of Walt Whitman


You See Where This Is Going

a setting of a poem by Brendan Constantine for lung-powered ensemble loadbang and strings


Can I have it without begging?

another piece in the series Machaut in the Machine Age, this one for flute and pre-recorded track


See Right Through Me (Albert’s Confession)

a song based on the life of Albert Cashier, Civil War soldier


She Gets to Decide

a song responding to the Balthus painting “Thérèse Dreaming”


Another Time

a small piano piece to celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday


In Huts and on Journeys

for spoken voice and as many mobile phones as available


Farther from the Heart

for voice and piano on a poem by Jane Bowles


What Justice Looks Like

an invocation to Esther Hobart Morris, the first female judge in America, for solo voice with optional percussion and drone


Where Your Treasure Is: Mistake

mistake

for four pianists on three pianos or keyboards, with drumset or pre-recorded track


From the Same Melancholy Fate

a layered improvisatory piece for a solo player on any instrument, with pre-recorded electronics and video


On the Battlefield

Vicksburg battlefield

for solo brass or wind player with live processing, spoken word (recorded or live) and optional video


Tower of Ivory

for piccolo and pre-recorded track, responding to a Irish tin whistle solo called Salamanca


All Good is Luck

for two violins (or violin and electric guitar) and pre-recorded track


Enough Holes

enough holes

a short piano homage to Phillip Glass and Foday Musa Soso


No Delight in Sacrifice

no delight in sacrifice

commissioned by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra in celebration of their 80th Anniversary Season


Play Like a Girl

a set of eight keyboard variations on the Bulgarian Women’s Chorus standard, Kaval Sviri


Unfavored House

randomized Bach for feeling better…