Duet for violin and piano, composed November 2021.
Score (PDF)
Violin part (PDF)
Synthesized demo of violin part (MP3)
Archive for the 'chamber' Category
Crimson and white
November 7, 2021Maximus, to himself
September 8, 2021Solo piece for trombone, written for Brent Mead in the Great Plains Composers’ Workshop.
At the Hawk’s Well
April 20, 2021Chamber opera in one act, after the play by W. B. Yeats. Four singing roles:
- First Musician, mezzo-soprano
- Second Musician, soprano
- Old Man, baritone
- Young Man, tenor
There’s also a non-singing part for a dancer, playing the hawk-spirit that guards the well.
Vocal score (PDF). I expect to arrange this for whatever small forces are available.
The only bit that’s been recorded is an aria, “I came like you”, with Caleb Lewis, baritone.
Splinters
November 27, 2019For flute, clarinet and bassoon. Written for the Left Coast Ensemble’s Intersection workshop.
Score (PDF)
Video of performance at the Crowden School in Berkeley, February 2020.
Downriver
November 27, 2019For string quartet. Written for the Left Coast Ensemble’s Intersection workshop.
Score (PDF)
Performance (video, somewhat truncated) at the Crowden School in Berkeley, February 2020.
Queen Under the Hill
May 22, 2019For string quartet — specifically for a student group. About 5m. May 2019.
Score here (folder also contains parts, MIDI and synthesized MP3).
Checkers
December 18, 2018Cello and piano, about 4m. Dec. 2018.
Einem, der vorübergeht
December 17, 2018Song setting for alto and clarinet, about 3m long. December, 2018.
Text is a poem of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. (See this article on the fairly recent rediscovery of the autograph.)
Score here, with clarinet transposed.
The Guardian of the Well
May 16, 2018Flute and piano, about 7m. May 2018. Originally intended as part of my opera project based on Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well.
Recording with Annelise Zamula, flute.
Susie Asado
March 17, 2018A setting of the Gertrude Stein text, for flute and soprano.
Score (PDF).
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