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Orchestral

Double Helix (Dissolutions II)
Completed 1980, revised 1991. Duration: 10 min.
Full Orchestra (3,3,3,3; 6,3,3,1; 5; piano; strings).
Winner of the 1982 Quinto Maganini Composition Award.
Recorded by Joel Suben conducting the Silesian Philharmonic on MMC 2069.
Metamorphosis (Concerto for Jazz Trio and Orchestra)
Completed 1977, revised 1996.  Duration: 15 min.
Solo jazz trio (piano, electric bass guitar, drum-set) and orchestra (3.3.3.3; 4,3,3,1; 5; organ; strings).
 

 

 

Chamber Ensemble

Chamber Concerto
Completed 1982. Duration: 17 min.
Flute/piccolo, oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon/contrabassoon, violin, viola, cello, bass, percussion (vibraphone, marimba), piano/celesta.
Clarinet Quartet
Completed 1983. Duration: 20 min.
Clarinet, violin, cello & piano.
Awarded American Society of University Composers Composition Prize.
Come Sopra
Completed 1979. Duration: 7 min.
Oboe and cello.
Concertino
Completed 1980. Duration: 11 min.
Flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, violin, cello, bass, harp, piano/celesta, 2 percussion (glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone, marimba).
Awarded BMI Student Composer Award.
Four Frames
Completed 1983. Duartion 10 min.
Percussion quartet.
Les Voyageurs
Completed 1979. Revised 1991. Duration: 17min.
Horn and 3 cellos.
Quintetino
Completed 1980. Duration: 9 min.
String quartet and piano.
Quintus Obscurus
Completed 1977. Duration: 11 min.
Bass flute, viola, celesta and 2 percussionists.
Residual Entropy
Completed 1978. Duration: 20 min.
Flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano.
String Quartet No. 2
Completed 1982. Duration: 14 min.
String quartet.
Awarded American Society of University Composers Composition Prize.
Variations
Completed 1983. Duration: 10 min.
Flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon.
The Little Prince Concert Suite
Completed 2005.  Duration: 30 min.
Violin, cello and piano (an arrangement with viola is being prepared)
       

 

Solo Instrument

Dichotomies
Completed 1979. Revised 1983. Duration: 14 min.
Solo viola.
Awarded Brookline Music Association Composition Award.
Masques I
Completed 1984. Duration: 7 min.
Solo oboe or solo bass oboe.
Masques II
Completed 1986. Duration: 8 min.
Solo flute.
Masques III
Completed 1987. Duration: 8 min.
Solo clarinet.
Premonitions
Completed 1983. Duration: 10 min.
Solo piano.
Toccata
Completed 1982. Duration: 10 min.
Solo organ.
 

 

 

Vocal

Alle Tode (song cycle on poems of Hermann Hesse)
Completed 1981. Duration: 20 min.
High soprano and piano.
A Memory of Evening
Completed 1989. Duration: 10 min.
Mezzo-soprano and piano.
Circonspection
Completed 1983. Duration: 8 min.
Soprano and clarinet.
Echoes
Completed 1984. Duration: 13 min.
Soprano and computer-generated tape.
Two Sonnets
Completed 1987. Duration: 9min.
Soprano and piano.
Note: The first of the sonnets (The Windhover ) may be performed as a stand-alone work.
 
 

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