Canaries in the Morning, Balloons at Night (2004)   PROGRAM NOTE   SCORE EXCERPT (PDF)
Commissioned by the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra
Premiered September 25, 2004 in Lafayette, LA

North (2002-3) PROGRAM NOTE
Premiered March 17, 2004 at Royal College of Music, London
Also performed at American Composers Orchestra’s Whitaker Reading Sessions, May 20, 2004 at Miller Theater, NYC

History by Moonlight for orchestra (2003)

Songs from the Plays, Book I for SATB soloists and chamber orchestra (2002)
Song cycle on poems by Kenneth Koch

Üsküdar for sixteen players (2 flutes, English horn, 2 clarinets, mandolin, qanun, harp, 3 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, 'cello, bass) (2008)
Premiered September 4, 2008 at Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, NL

Sparrow Episodes for sixteen players (flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, electric guitar, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 'cello, bass) (2006)
Premiered August 24, 2006 at Domaine Forget, St.-Irénée, Québec
Also performed 5 September, 2007 at Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, NL

Sing Into My Mouth for eighteen players (alto flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 'cellos, and 2 basses) (2005)
Premiered July 19, 2005 at Centre Acanthes, Metz, France
Also performed September 8, 2006 at Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, NL

—N'T GO ANY FURTHER for bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, violin, viola, and 'cello (2007)
Premiered June 30, 2007 by Ensemble Cairn, Le Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-St.-Denis), France

Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, 'cello, bass, and piano (2003, rev. 2004)   SCORE EXCERPT (PDF)
Premiered January 25, 2005, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Also performed November 6, 2006 by TENM, Innsbruck, Austria

Blues Wrapped Around My Head for three B flat clarinets and bass clarinet (2004)
Composed for Voix Nouvelles at Royaumont Abbey
Premiered October 2, 2004 by members of Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Asnières-sur-Oise, France

Sunflower Suite for sextet (flute, clarinet, violin, 'cello, piano, and perc.) (2003)
Premiered June 19, 2003 by members of Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Repeated June 20, 2003 at National Gallery, London, UK
Also performed March 13, 2006 by Earplay, San Francisco, CA

History by Moonlight for violin, clarinet, and piano (2002)
Premiered May 18, 2002 by Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Boston, MA

“Different Moons”—Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1999)
Premiered April 30, 2000 in Cambridge, MA. Gary Gorczyca, clarinet and Sergey Schepkin, piano

Quodlibet with Variations for 'cello and piano (1999)
Commissioned by New Music in Provincetown
Premiered June 20, 1999 in Provincetown, MA
Also performed April 20, 2002 by Non-Sequitur Ensemble, Cambridge, MA

Songs from the Plays, Book I for SATB soloists and two pianos (2002)
Song cycle on poems by Kenneth Koch
Premiered May 12, 2002 at Paine Hall, Harvard University

The Botticellian Trees for baritone and piano (2001)
Song cycle on poems by William Carlos Williams
Premiered January 26, 2001 at New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to for soprano and piano (1999)
Text by Carl Sandburg
Premiered 12 March 1999 in Boston, MA

Evening: Five Songs by Anna Akhmatova for soprano, piano, and string trio (1998)
Premiered Nov. 2, 1998 in Washington, D. C. by the Contemporary Music Forum. Repeated Dec. 16, 1999 in D.C.
Also performed Feb. 19, 2000 in Boston by Chameleon Arts Ensemble

“O now the drenched land wakes” for double choir a capella (2006)
Text by Kenneth Patchen
Premiered March 4, 2007 by the Providence Singers in Providence, RI

“The sea is awash with roses” for men’s choir a capella (2000)
Text by Kenneth Patchen
Premiered May 6, 2000 by the Harvard Glee Club in Cambridge, MA

Really Coming Down for guitar and live electronics (2007)
Premiered 30 June, 2007 by Christelle Séry, Le Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-St.-Denis), France

The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky for piano solo (2005)   SCORE EXCERPT (PDF)
Commissioned for Sergey Schepkin by the FleetBoston Celebrity Series
Premiered April 16, 2005 at Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

Small Rain for 'cello and live electronics
Premiered 25 March, 2003 by Zoe Martlew at Royal College of Music, London

Piano Sonata (2000)
Premiered Aug. 3, 2000 by Sergey Schepkin as part of the New Orleans, LA International Piano Competition and Keyboard Festival
Also performed at Monadnock Music Festival (Mvt. II in July 2000), in Providence, RI (Oct. 12, 2000) and in Boston (at NEC on Jan. 18, 2001)