Orchestra/Chamber Ensemble • Vocal • Chamber • Solo/Duo • Electroacoustic
The Melancholy of Resistance (2010) for orchestra (3.3.3.3. 4.2.3.1. 2 perc.pno. strings), 11’
Rain/Darkest Hour (2010) for orchestra (3.3.3.3. 4.2.3.1. 2 perc.cel.hp. strings), 2’
Pale Light (2009) for orchestra (piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in Bb, bass clarinet, 2 bassooons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets in C, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, percussion (1 player), harp, celesta, strings), 6’
Pale Light • From a reading by the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, Blake Richards, conductor
Why Tangos? (2006) for chamber ensemble (2 flutes, clarinet in Bb, percussion 1, timpani/percussion 2, piano, accordion, electric guitar, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, contrabass), 13’
Why Tangos? • 2nd Movement
au cœur d’une ville de rêve (2004) for orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes [2nd doubles English horn], 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 3 tenor trombones, timpani, percussion, strings), 18’
Metempsychosis (2002) for chamber ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, two horns in F, trumpet in Bb, bass trombone, three 1st violins, two 2nd violins, two violas, two violoncelli, contrabass, electronics), 16’
Invocation/Chönyid Bardo (2010) for piccolo, flute, bass clarinet, 2 sopranos, mezzo soprano, piano, 2 vibraphones, 2 marimbas, percussion, and 2 electric guitars. Text from Bardo Thodol. 7'
Hymn of the Pearl (2009) for countertenor and ensemble (English horn, trumpet in C, drum set, marimba/vibraphone, amplified guitar, electric guitar, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, contrabass), traditional text, 25’? (in progress)
âzmân-khez (ascension) (2008) for soprano and ensemble (flute, A clarinet, English horn, bassoon, C trumpet, trombone, harp, harmonium (or chamber organ), 2 violin, viola, violoncello, contrabass, electronics), text by Rumi, 10’
âzmân-khez (ascension) • Arwen Myers, soprano • Indiana University New Music Ensemble • Chih-Chiang Lin, conductor
Pt. Pt. Pt. said the Snowberries (2008) for soprano, flute, violoncello and harpsichord, text by Gunnar Ekelöf, 7’
Dada Gedichte (2007-08) cabaret songs for soprano and chamber ensemble (Eb clarinet, soprano saxophone, trombone, percussion (3 players), piano, mandolin, viola, contrabass, electronics), text by Hugo Ball, 14’
Vor dem Gesetz (2006-07) parable for bass baritone and chamber ensemble (flute/piccolo, oboe, English horn, clarinet in Bb/Eb, bassoon, horn, C trumpet, tuba, percussion (4 players), piano, harpsichord/celesta, violin, viola, 2 violoncelli, contrabass), text by Franz Kafka, 19’
Ballad Mento (Evening Time) (2007), Jamaican folk song arrangement for choir, 3’
Ballad Mento (Evening Time) • The Indiana University International Vocal Ensemble, Mary Goetze, director
Sept poèmes de Rilke (2006) for mezzo soprano, baroque oboe, lute, baroque cello, text by Rainer Maria Rilke, 13’
Magnificat (2005) for 12-part Chorus and String Quintet, 14’
Nag Hammadi Fragments (2004) for mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble (alto flute, English horn, piano, celesta, percussion [2 players], 2 violins, viola, violoncello, contrabass), texts from English translations of original Coptic, 17’
Oh Cup (2002) for high soprano and piano, text by Alison Wonderland Bacich, 5’
Kaspar ist Tot (1999) for amplified mezzo-soprano, tam tam, and feedback, text by Hans Arp, 6’
Inicial/Without Words (2009) for clarinet in Bb, violin, violoncello and piano, 6’
Inicial/Without Words • Elizabeth Derham, violin • Liam Burke, clarinet • Jay Campbell, cello • Fei-Fei Dong, piano
Abiogenesis (2008), for viola, violoncello, percussion (2 players) and harp, 4’
The Temple Bell Dies Away (2007) for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano and string quartet, 3’
String Quartet (2007), 14’
String Quartet • Bella Hristova & Danbi Um, violins • Rose Armbrust, viola • Yotam Baruch, cello
gymopédie/drowned cities (2007) for three guitars, 7’
Pas seul (2006) for clarinet, violoncello and piano, 5’
ewig…(eismusik) (2005) for alto flute, viola, vibraphone, celesta, harp and synth, 11’
Piano Trio (2005), 24’
Five Elegies for String Quartet (2002), 14’
Three Sketches in the Shape of an Invisible Self-Portrait (2002) for percussion (two players), viola, and violoncello, 11’
Tango (2001) for string quartet, 5’
Somniloquy (2000, revised 2004) for flute, clarinet, English horn, celesta and piano, 8’
Short Pieces (2009) for English horn and piano, 6’? (in progress)
Floating World (2009) for harp, 6:30’
Impromptu (2008) for piano, 5’
…then sudden back (2008) for violoncello, 6’
…then sudden back • Sophie Webber, cello
…in memoriam György Ligeti (2006) for piano, 8’
long sudden gone (2005) for 2 violoncelli, 13’
Suite (2004) for piano, 12’
Six Short Pieces (2003) for violin and Piano, 12’
–mus. (2002) for flute and tape, (also revised for tape alone), 6’
etude and elegy (2001) for piano, 8’
World Not Gone (2008-09), album, ~40’? (in progress)
Im Wald (2009), 11’
Im Wald
…zum Raum wird hier die Zeit (2008), [8-channel surround sound], 9:30’
Treasures from Grandma’s Piano Bench and Funeral March (2008), [5.1 surround sound and video], 13’
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from Inner Shadow (for Andrei Tarkovsky) (2007), [5.1 surround sound], 7:30’
Threni (2006), [8-channel surround sound], 5’
Toccata (2006), harpsichord and playback, 6’
Et in Saecula Saeculorum (2005), [5.1 surround sound], 8’
mu (for ozu yasujiro) (2003), 24’
for (2002), 11’
(hommage á messiaen) (2001), 9’
alone (2001), 11’
where we were when the end occurred (2000), 7:30’
end of the rope (2000), 11’
NTMR SQNC (2000), 11’30”
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