Composer
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For Some - Chamber ensembles
The Prize of Nothing (2024)
Red Blood Spills and Pools the Same for voice & ensemble (2024)
Once in a Blue Moon (2024)
Co-written with Simon Harty
Inconvenient Ways to Eat an Artichoke / Hemispherectomy (2024)
Co-written with Abigail George
Crushed Splits (2022)
Not Jingle Bells (arr. 2021)
The Black and White Riddle (2021)
Little Crow Hop Hop (2021)
Downright Up and Left (2018)
For One - Solos
For Many - Large ensembles
Red Blood Spills and Pools the Same for orchestra (2024)
Plagued (2023)
Waving Through a Window (arr. 2018)
Indeterminate works - Graphic and Text Scores
Your Past Self (is Dead) (2023)
Your Turn, A Family Game (2023)
Fixed Media
Free Trial for 50 Years (edited 2020)
Mangled City (2019)
For Pierrot ensemble with spoken text.
Premiered by Platypus Ensemble.
For soprano voice, flute, violin, cello, piano, and percussion.
Premiered by Carrie Shaw, Seattle Modern Orchestra, and University of Washington Modern Music Ensemble.
For 24 beer bottles in a cardboard box.
"There are at least 50 ways to play a glass bottle.... here are at least 2."
For prepared drum set and marimba.
Eating artichokes are pretty inconvenient, no?
This piece was originally named "Inconvenient Ways to Eat an Artichoke" and has
been performed in programs with the title "Hemispherectomy."
For flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion.
Premiered by Seattle Modern Orchestra.
For solo marimba and 2+ percussion accompaniment.
For solo steel pan and cello pan & piano accompaniment, text by Alan Watts. Orchestration without accompaniment available.
For James Gibson.
For clarinet, trumpet, viola, cello, piano, percussion.Premiered by the NIU New Music Ensemble at the New Music Festival.
For 3 percussionists.
1st place in the Jack Stone Award Composition Competition 2019.
Premiered by Left Edge Percussion Ensemble.
For solo drum set with tape backing track.
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For solo steel pan, text by Alan Watts.
For James Gibson.
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For orchestra, based on the chamber orchestration.
Read by University of Washington Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daren Weissfisch.
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For concert band with theatrics & choreography.
Premiered by the University of Washington Symphonic Band, conducted by Shaun Day.
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For 10+ percussionists for percussion ensemble.
Performed by the College of DuPage Percussion Ensemble.
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Text score for 2 percussionists and voice.
Premiered by Rose Martin, Melissa Wang, and Taryn Marks.
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Graphic score for 5+ performers, flexible instrumentation.
Premiered by the University of Washington Percussion Ensemble,
Comedic fixed electronics piece. Screaming by Brendan Casey.
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Fixed electronics piece.