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The Lily and the Bird (2022) for SATB choir, oboe, and string quartet.
Commissioned by Lutheran Summer Music for its 40th anniversary. Premiered July 2022. Nany Menk, conductor.
Notes from Inside (2021) for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello
Commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players. Premiered November 14, 2021.
Defined by Words (2020) for medium voice and piano
Five songs commissioned by Lynx Project for its Autism Advocacy Series (2020).
Selected movements:
Pathways (2015) for chamber orchestra (2[pic].2.2.2/2.2.0.0/2 perc/hp/pno/str)
Winner of the 2016 Houston Symphony Emerging Composers Competition and the Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize (Rice University).
String Quartet No. 1 "Cascades" (2017)
Commissioned by the Delgani String Quartet with support from the Oregon Community Foundation.
I. Lava Fields
II. Crater and Crevice
III. The Trees Are Castaways
IV. Those Distant Monuments
Work info, liner notes, purchase CD here
Footnotes (2013) for violin and cello
Commissioned by Sonja Harasim.
Honorable Mention, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards
Quartet for Saxophones (2012)
(SATB sax quartet)
from quiet scripts (2016) for piano quartet.
Commissioned by the Network for New Music.