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Winds/Percussion Strings and Piano Mixed Ensembles Fanfares for brass and percussion are listed on the wind ensemble page Wind and Percussion Ensembles: Bioluminescence (2019) for percussion ensemble duration: 10' Biomimicry (2019) for wind octet or saxophone octet duration: 16' Commissioned by Nomad Session Chameleon (2014) for trombone septet or cello sextet duration: 8' Entanglement (2024) for clarinet trio duration: 8'30" Commissioned by Chaos Incarne Trio Far From Equilibrium (2016) for clarinet quartet or saxophone quartet duration: 24' Inferno (2020) for saxophone ensemble duration: 5' LHC (2012) for saxophone quartet or clarinet quartet duration: 14' Mare Tranquillitatis (arr. 2017) for flex wind octet, saxophone ensemble, or clarinet ensemble duration: ca. 6'30" Pastorale (2024) for clarinet choir duration: ca. 4' Pulmonary suite (2004-2012) for wind quintet duration: 18' (Re)Inventions (2016) for flute and soprano saxophone or flute and oboe or two saxophones or bass clarinet and tenor saxophone duration: ca. 8' Smoky Mountain Lullaby (2023) for clarinet ensemble or flute ensemble duration: ca. 10'30" Commissioned by Lisa Perry Strange Attractors (2017) for french horn and vibraphone or alto saxophone and vibraphone duration: ca. 7' Variations on Reverse Entropy (2012) for reed quintet (oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, bassoon) duration: 8' We Choose to Go to the Moon (2020) for saxophone ensemble Duration: ca. 6'30" Z(4430) (2014) for saxophone quartet OR clarinet quartet duration: 1' Zodiacal Light (2018) for flute, clarinet, and piano duration: ca. 15' String Ensembles: Apricity (2021) for string quartet or flute and string trio duration: 9' Chameleon (2014) for cello sextet or trombone septet duration: 8' Escher Triptych (2017) for violin and cello duration: ca. 12' Fight or Flight (2010) for violin and guitar duration: 7'    This wild and virtuosic composition was written for Duo Fritz: Colin Sorgi, violin, and Jonathan Godfrey, guitar. As the title implies, it is a musical adrenaline rush, speeding forward from the beginning. It is highly chromatic and highly violent for the first couple minutes before winding down into a mesmerizing textural section that features guitar harmonics and muted violin trills. The music picks up once again and speeds to the finish, getting faster and faster, higher and higher until the music breaks down into pieces. The video below is of Delyana Lazarova, violin, and Jonathan Godfrey, guitar. Fireworks (2016) for piano four hands duration: 2' Commissioned by Olivia Swaan, president of Friends of Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota for their 20th anniversary season. LHC (2012) for piano trio duration: 14' Road Trip (2010) for string quartet duration: 10' Telescopic Variations (2014) for piano trio duration: 10' Winner of the 2014 Trio Anima Mundi Composition Prize Tessellation (2020) for violin and bass duration: 3' Composed for #GLFCAMGigThruCOVID Watch the YouTube premiere below. If you are interested in performing this work, please contact me. A tessellation is a space-filling recursive geometric pattern. Since music fills time instead of space, this piece creates a sonic tessellation by quickly alternating between a series of varied ideas, beginning with a rushing flourish, then moving to a disjointed rhythmic motive paired with sliding pizzicatos, and next a unison arpeggiated figure. As these ideas bounce back and forth, they gradually shift and transform, eventually revealing a rollicking fiddle tune just before the music comes to a crashing close. This piece was written for #GLFCAMGigThruCOVID Trio Ostinato (2004) for two violins and bass duration: 9' Two Canons (2016) for two cellos duration: 6'30" Mixed Ensembles: Apricity (2021) for string quartet or flute and string trio duration: 9' Fractal Miniatures (2012) for mixed nonet or mixed sextet (Pierrot) duration: 12' Geometries (2010) for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano duration: 10' Iridescence (2016) for throat singing clarinetist and cello duration: 7' Iridescence was composed for the "Guinea Pigs in Bow Ties" concert at the 2016 Bowdoin International Music Festival. I found out at 10 PM on a Thursday who I would be writing for, and then I wrote the piece in the next 36 hours, leaving 12 hours for Sam and Stephen to rehearse and perform it at 10 PM on Saturday. iPod Shuffler (2009) for solo violin, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, violin, cello, and bass duration: 6' Irlandzki Polonez (2012) for oboe or clarinet, violin, cello, and piano duration: 5' Kugelblitz (2013) for alto saxophone and viola duration: 8' Lunation 1113 (2013) for violin, bassoon, and percussion OR violin, bass clarinet, and percussion duration: 10' Moonstone (2017) for clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone, and harp duration: ca. 8' New Horizons (2015) for oboe, clarinet, cello, and piano duration: 15' Commissioned by the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (2012) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano duration: ca. 5' Commissioned by Wilhelmina Smith and the Salt Bay Chamberfest Phoenix Song (2011) for solo clarinet and string quartet duration: 12' The Tell-Tale Heart (2015) for mixed octet (flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion) duration: 8' Trio for flute and two violins - 'Spiderman' (2005) for flute and two violins duration: 15'

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