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Large Ensemble

Looking Glass
(2025)
pastoral for wind ensemble
5'

picc.2.2.eh.2.cb.3.bcl/2.1.1/3.2.2.btbn.1/ timp / 3 (glock.rat.vib.tm.tri.wch.rainstk.suscym)

Brevard Music Center Wind Ensemble

Excerpt

#expansive #roaring #waterfall #rainstick

Confetti Cannon Works list
Confetti Cannon
(2025)
opener for orchestra
6'

2(II=picc).2.2 / 4.3.2.1 / timp. / 3 (confetti cannon) / hp.pn / strings

Excerpt #1

Excerpt #2

#shimmery #morphing #bold #confetti-cannon

Nostalgia Machine
(2024)
sinfonietta
6'

1(dbl. picc).1.b cl.1 / 1.1.1. / 2. / pn. / strings: 1.1.1.1.1.

Excerpt #1

Excerpt #2

#hazy #contemplative #industral #interruptive 

Dark Data
(2024)
orchestra
8'

2(2dbl picc.).2(2 dbl ehn).2(2=b.cl).2(2= c.bn) / 4.2.3.1. / timp / 2. / pn. / strings

Excerpt

#bass-and-tuba-feature #brooding #fast #beating

Small Ensemble (2-6 players)

Sonata, Song, Slide
(2026)
horn & piano
13'

commissioned by Judson Whitney

#multimovement #fast-slow-fast #barnburner-ending

Apple Tree Split in Three
(2026)
8'
for flute (dbl picc + alto) & 2 percussionists

dedicated to PCAP (Prison Creative Arts Project) and FLYDLPHN

#graphic-notation #sparkly #bowed-cymbal 

Palindrome Through Polka Dot
saxophone quartet
(2025)
8'

winner of 2026 Brehm Prize in Instrumental Composition

#fast #rhythmic #hocketing #pointalistic

abcd works list
abcd
a mini murder mystery for saxophone quartet
(2025)
2.5'

Novus Saxophone Quartet

Excerpt

#graphic-notation #comedic #theatrical

passicag works list
Passacaglia
(2025)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano
6'

Brevard Music Center New Music Ensemble

Excerpt

#bowed-flexatone #hocketing #graphic-notation

star
Burnt By a Fallen Star
(2024)
11'
string quartet

Performance Recording by JACK Quartet

(Premiered by Kodak Quartet)

Excerpt #1

Excerpt #2

#dystopian #extended-string-techniques #piercing #astronomy #constallations

Herding Evening
(2023)
8'
10 micro-movements of acceptance for bb clarinet & piano

Leah Jane (cl.) & Alex Glass (pn.)

III. falling

V. famililarity

#soft #reflective #tenderly

A Music Box of Many
(2023)
17'
string quartet

#multi-movement #free-atonality #tchaikovsky

Picturing Propaganda
(2022)
6.5'
bass clarinet & double bass

Vashawn Arora (b. cl) & Sam Zagnit (dbl. bass)

#gestural #jagged #chromatic 

Neurogenesis & Blooming Flowers
(2022)
bb trumpet, poet, & piano
text by Micah Daniels (b. 2002)
7'

#spoken-word #leadsheet #tender

Vocal and Choir

[     ] is a parrot
(2026)
mezzo soprano & piano
8'
text by Edgar Morales

Commissioned by the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Cincinnati Song Initiative, with major support from Lori Laitman.

#erasure poetry #collage #winter #wolf-spiders

duchess works
For the Duchess
(2025)
4.5'
flute & mezzo soprano
text by Lewis Carrol & the composer

SydeBoob Duo

I. From the Queen

II. The Knocking Scene

III. A Large Plate & IV. About Fish People

#flying-plates #frogs #pisces #flute-extended-techniques

Flights works
Connecting Flights
(2024)
7'
ttbb choir OR solo baritone and string quartet
text by the composer

C4 (The Choral Composer Conductor Collective) (Excerpt)

#airport-layovers #introspective #paris

demon works
The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top
dramatic scenes for bb clarinet, soprano, and piano
(2024)
text by Stephen Crane
7'

Haven Trio

Excerpt

#theatrical #canoe #demon #chromatic

Solo

Sympathetic Etude
solo piano
(2025)
3'

#harmonics #chorale #slow

Steel Mirrors
solo piano
(2024)
4'

commissioned by Josh Binkhorst

Excerpt

#hazy #dancing #swords

Flashes of Night
solo piano
(2024)
4.5'

commissioned by Josh Binkhorst

#slow #stars #expansive

CONCERTINA
accordion and fixed electronics
(2023)
4'

Excerpt

Murphy Severtson (accordion)

#musique-concrete #theatrical #projection #improv

Field and Channel
contrabassoon and fixed electronics
(2023)
8'

Excerpt

Wrenn Mokry (contrabassoon)

#dark #industrial #musique-concrete

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