Composition

Current & Future Projects

2012

  • An Expanded Index of Poses and Motions for violin (score)
  • Nonsuperfluous Irregulars and Vacillations for piccolo, violin, glockenspiel, and celesta (score)
  • An Exceedingly Clear Absolution Engine (piccolo) – for Shanna Gutiérrez (score)

2011

  • A Tight Inquiry Container of Diversification (Eb clarinet and sextet)
  • Interpolations Hewn From a Choice Machine (flute, piano, and violin) – for mmm… (score)
    • Premiered 27 March 2012 in Tokyo, Japan by mmm…
  • A Conjunct Series of Interpolations (flute) (score)
  • A Series of Postures (piano) (score)
    • Premiered 27 October 2011 at St. Paul’s Hall at the University of Huddersfield, UK by Sebastian Berweck.
  • A Series of Postures (clarinet) (Eb and bass clarinets (one player)) (score)
  • All of the Inquiries I Can Offer Right Now (clarinet and piano) – for Kate Ledger and Heather Roche (score)
  • Scenes of Disassemblage and Coalescence (violin and cello) (score)
  • A Partial Taxonomy of Condensations for cello – for Séverine Ballon

2010

  • An Index of Poses and Motions (Retrospection No.4) (violin) – for Johnny Chang‘s 2011 residency at the U. Huddersfield. (score) (recording)
    • North American premiere given by Ensemble Pamplemousse on 17 February 2012 at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, USA.
    • Premiered 5 April 2011 at Phipps Concert Hall at the University of Huddersfield, UK by Johnny Chang.
  • Things to Keep Us Safe (Retrospection No.3) (acoustic and electric guitars and 5-string banjo (one player)) – for Seth Josel‘s 2011 residency at the U. Huddersfield. (score)
    • German premiere given by Seth Josel on 5 May 2012 at Genezarethkirche in Berlin as part of the Neuköllner Originaltöne.
    • North American premiere given by Magnus Andersson on 10 June 2011 in Buffalo, NY, USA as part of June in Buffalo.
    • Premiered 3 March 2011 at St. Paul’s Recital Hall at the University of Huddersfield, UK by Seth Josel.
  • A Failure to Rectify is Itself a Transformation (An Equation of the Hands) (piano) – for Coreen Morsink for the RMA Study Day ‘Collaborations in Practice Led Research’. (score) (recording
    • Performed 25 October 2010 at Goldsmith’s University of London (UK) by Coreen Morsink.
    • Premiered 23 October 2010 at the University of Leeds (UK) by Coreen Morsink as part of the RMA Study Day ‘Collaborations in Practice Led Research’.
  • Diagramming a Vivisection of Yours and Mine (Ineffectual Tracings of Antiquated Sounds): A Florilegium (soprano saxophone) – for Iain Harrison (score) (recording)

  • Diagram of a Polymathic Persona/Diagram of a Failure to Diversify (quintet) (score) (recording)
    • European premiere given by Ensemble SurPlus on 20 June 2010 at E-Werk in Freiburg, Germany.
    • Premiered 2 June 2010 by Ensemble SurPlus in Buffalo, NY, USA as part of June in Buffalo.

2009

  • Diagram of a Little Less Than Everything (Bb clarinet & violin) – for the New York Miniaturist Ensemble (score)
  • Diagrams of a Paired and Inseparable Pair (Bb clarinet and cello) – written for the ELISION ensemble‘s residency at the U. Huddersfield for 2009-10. (score) (recording)
  • Diagrams of Drawings Not Meant to Correspond (solo piano) – written for Kate Ledger. (score) (recording)
    • European premiere given by Kate Ledger on 22 November 2010 at Phipps Hall in Huddersfield, UK as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
    • American premiere given by Juri Seo on 28 April 2010 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as part of the International Sound Exchange.
    • Premiered by Xenia Pestova on 6 February 2010 at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, Canada as part of the Contemporary Keyboard Society’s four-year anniversary celebration.
  • A Few Diagrams in Cloth (sextet) – commissioned by the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble.

2008

  • 11 Views from 4 Perspectives of Significantly Less of an Object Than One Would Think (string quartet)
    • Featured in a reading by the JACK Quartet on 27 March 2009 at the U. Huddersfield (UK).
  • An Ever-Partial View (solo oboe) – written for Chistopher Redgate as part of his February 2009 residency at the U. Huddersfield.
    • Greek premiere given by Christopher Redgate on 7 November 2009 as part of the First Athens Composer/Performer Conference at the Theocharakis Foundation Concert Hall, Athens.
    • Premiered 19 February 2009 by Christopher Redgate at St. Paul’s Recital Hall at the U. Huddersfield (UK).
  • Monad for 7 Resonant Instruments (mixed ensemble)

2007

  • Drawing 5 (piccolo, flute, violin)  (score)
  • Drawing 4 (alto flute, Bb clarinet, piano, crotales)
  • Drawing 1 (Bb clarinet)
    • Premiered 14 Oct. 2008 by Heather Roche at St.Paul’s Hall at the U. Huddersfield (UK).
  • Thought is a Prism: Percussion Sextet
  • Thought is a Prism: Monad for 11 Piccolos (score)
  • Thought is a Prism: Bass Clarinet & Vibraphone
  • Thought is a Prism: Bass Clarinet Solo
    • Premiered 26 September 2009 by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble at the The New York Performing Arts Library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium (Joshua Rubin).
  • If (four pieces for trombone and cello)
    • Featured in a reading by In Freundschaft at the College of Charleston, SC, USA on 24 March 2007.
  • The Size of an Object is Relative to Perspective (oboe/marimba/e.guitar) 
    • Premiered 23 February 2007 as part of the SURF Grant Presentation concert given in conjunction with the New Music Collective at the Simons Center for the Arts Recital Hall at the College of Charleston, SC, USA (David Linaburg – gui, Ron Wiltrout – mar, Dulcie Livingston – ob); recording included in the release New Music Collective: Volume One (2007).

2006

  • Diverging/Level Structure (oboe/percussion/e.guitar)
    • Premiered 3 November 2006 as part of the New Music Collective Concert Musical Objects at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC, USA (David Linaburg – gui, Ron Wiltrout – per, Dulcie Livingston – ob).
  • Two Short Pieces for Electric Guitar 
    • First piece (I (compact/angles)) premiered 3 November 2006 as part of the New Music Collective Concert Musical Objects at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC, USA (David Linaburg).
premiered 19 February 2009 by Christopher Redgate at St. Paul’s Recital Hall at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
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