For flute, string quartet, and 2 hand drums

Horse Notations (2019) was written as a commission by the Oregon East Symphony to be premiered in the homelands of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The composition utilizes a 1874 Popular Science Journal article titled “The Paces of the Horse” and its analysis of horse gaits–the walk, trot, canter, and gallop–as source material for rhythms, drum patterns, bow pressures, and volume arcs. Graphic representations from the article appear in the score as notations for the drum(s) and any instruments that learn from the drum. Horse Notations is a look at the speed of the day, a perspective of tempo throughout one’s life, and a view of the momentum of shared human and animal history.

Commissioned by Oregon East Symphony

A learning piece for 3 performers whispering a poem in an endangered language

for solo violin

for wind ensemble

(performed by University of Mary Washington Wind Ensemble and conducted by Craig Naylor)

A proposition to the process of group learning where the conductor gradually gives up his role in the performance of this work. As the presence of the conductor diminishes, each member of the large ensemble is allowed to recall the group sound. Time drifts, and all performers calmly lose their way…remembering…

A collective remembering of who they were while at the same time a re-imagining toward who they are expected to be

for string quartet

Recorded by ETHEL Quartet

for solo flute and backing ensemble

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and percussion

(Commissioned and performed by Ensemble Music New Mexico / Chatter)

Score for dog whistles

Whistle Quartet replicates the way one (or ones) might learn a song from an elder or leader, how one (or ones) become part of a group, and how one or ones become leaders when their leader is no longer there.