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Composer

2011

Action Speaks
<60″
Voice (any type), alto saxophone, horn, viola, percussion (snare, sleigh bells)
1. Inlets
2. Enlist
3. Tinsel
4. Silent
5. Listen

Mass on Oranges and Lemons
10′
Five tubas (composed for Jane Maness’ tuba studio at Wilfrid Laurier University)
I. Kyrie
II. Credo
III. Sanctus
IV. Benedictus
V. Agnus Dei
VI. Gloria

2010

Making plans, Wasting time
5′
Harp

Litany
21′
Flute, oboe, alto sax, piano, melodica/toy piano (composed for Ansae)

As the Story Says
Alto, drone, and contrasting improvisation provided by any combination of instruments


Speak of the Devil
4′
Two alto saxophones

Not Legendary

Album art by Rob Singleton

Album art by Rob Singleton

An album in 9 songs
For chamber orchestra (ob, e.hn, cl, hn, tr, trb, vla, cel, bass, pno, perc) and four soloists
1. The Angel of Death Feels Pity for the World 4’30″
2. Into the Desert 5’15″
3. Tandava/Lasya 3′
4. Here Is How 4′
5. Do You Miss the Sea? 5’10″
6. Psyche’s Sister 4’05″
7. Clementine 4’30″
8. Dunyazade 3’50″
9. Song of the Drekavac 4’30″

Hundred Metre Butterfly
8′
Solo flute (composed for Kyle Hushard)

and yet and yet and yet and well, what if?
8′
Oboe, viola, piano (composed for Elizabeth Brown)

Archipelago
3′
Bb Clarinet, bassoon, viola

2009

Please find enclosed
4’30″
Solo horn (composed for David Jakobs)

Secret Music
2′
Viola, Cello, Piano (composed for the Schweigen Trio)

Tohubohu and Brouhaha
12’30″
Marimba, glock, snare, orchestral brass (4,3,2,b.tr,1)
(composed for the Wilfrid Laurier University Symphony Orchestra)

The Pleiades, as introduced by the Titan, Atlas
12′
For tuba and piano (composed for Christopher Antila)
I. Maia
II. Electra
III. Taygete
IV. Halcyone
V. Celaeno
VI. Asterope
VII. Merope

How They Felt About the Balloon
7′
Piano (based on a fragment of text from Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon”)

Angry Brows
3′
Piano

2008

Analogue
7’30″
For orchestra
(2,1, eh, 2, 1, contra, 4, 2, 2, b.tr, 1, strings, hp, vib, timp)

In Spite of the Tennis

6′
Choir

That See the Sun Rise
4’30″
4 ob, ob d’amore, 3 e. hn, 4 bsn, contra

By Sound, Near Seawall, At Ocean-Stream
8′
A soundscape for marimba, conch, ocarina, angklung

Atmospheres
8’20
For drum kit and mark tree
I. Ozone
II. Astrapes kai Brontes

Internet
3’40″
String quartet
Internet (as read by the Penderecki String Quartet)

Internet (in performance at the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall)

2007

Watership Down
9′
pic, fl, ob, e.hn, cl, 2 bsn, 2 hn