selected works

VIDEO NOTES

Love & Aggression

Instrumentation: 7-string electric guitar, amplified cello

Duration: 8 minutes

Year of composition: 2007

Premiere: Mar 21, 2008 - Ball State University Festival of New Music, Sursa Hall, Muncie, IN | Jean Hatmaker, cello; Derek Johnson, guitar

Dedicated to: Derek Johnson

AUDIO

Summer Whimsy

Instrumentation: voice, piano

Text: 5 poems by Lucy Rosenberg

Duration: 16 minutes

Year of Composition: 2006

Premiere (full): Apr 17, 2007 - Recital Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | Anna Roberts, soprano; Jeff Stanek, piano

Dedicated to: Lucy Rosenberg

AUDIO

In Pieces In Pieces In Pieces

Instrumentation: sinfonietta: 1(=picc).1.1.1./0.0.3.0./2perc.pno./1(amp).1(amp).1(amp).0.

Duration: 10 minutes

Year of composition: 2006

Current revision: 2007

Premiere (original version): Apr 23, 2006 - Recital Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | Thomas Heuser, conductor

AUDIO NOTES

One Little Chord

Instrumentation: piano, 2-channel fixed audio

Duration: 9 minutes

Year of composition: 2006

Premiere (first live performance): Apr 23, 2006 - Recital Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | Jeff Stanek, piano

First Prize, CEMJKO International Electroacoustic Music Contest

AUDIO

I Can't Sleep

Instrumentation: multi-percussion (solo)

Duration: 11 minutes

Year of composition: 2005

Premiere: Mar 26, 2005 - Sweeney Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | Eric Guinivan, percussion

BMI Student Composer Award

AUDIO

Fantasies & Dances

Instrumentation: violin

Duration: 8 minutes

Year of composition: 2002

Premiere: Feb 15, 2003 - Midwest Composers Symposium, Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH | Galen Kaup, violin

BMI Student Composer Award (Carlos Surinach Prize)

AUDIO

The Upper Field

Instrumentation: string quartet, piano

Duration: 22 minutes

Year of composition: 2001

Premiere (first three movements): Jul 26, 2000 - Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall, The Walden School, Dublin, NH | Phoenix String Quartet; Leo Wanenchak, piano

Honorable Mention, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

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