ORCHESTRA
Kin (2022)*
Six Sides from the Shape of Us (2021)*
On One Hand, On the Other (2021)
Ease The Roads (2021)
A Flash of Teeth Before the Bite (2021)
The Sycamore and the Oak (2020)
Landlord (2019)
knit / purl (2019)
Canyons (2018)
Here Comes the Rain (2018)
Propellers in the Sun (2016)
Dur: 28’00”
Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / Timpani / 2-3 percussion / Harp / Piano / Strings
*Flute II dbl. Piccolo
**Percussion I: Waterphone (with water), Triangle (Miller Machine), Bass Drum, Glockenspiel, Gong (medium), Tubular Bells, Small Kit (Kick Drum, Tom-tom, Snare), Finger Cymbals // Percussion II: Suspended Cymbal (large), Suspended Cymbals (medium, large), Sleigh Bells, Vibraphone, Crotales, Metals Kit (metal/clay/glass found objects), Woodblock, Bass Drum
Written for the ballet “Kin” by Claudia Schreier. Commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet Association. Premiered in January 2023 at the SF Ballet’s Next@90 Festival, with music direction by Martin West.
Dur: 18’00”
Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / Timpani / 2 Percussion / Harp / Piano (dbl. Celesta) / Strings
*Flute II dbl. Piccolo
**Percussion I (Triangle, Suspended Cymbal, Crotales C4 - A5, Snare Drum, Egg Shaker) // Percussion II (Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Triangle, Suspended Cymbal, Tambourine, Medium Gong, Bass Drum)
Orchestrated for the ballet “Slipstream” by Claudia Schreier. New orchestration commissioned by the Boston Ballet. Premiered in March 2022 at the Boston Ballet’s ChoreograpHER Festival, with music direction by Mischa Santora. Original version (for string quartet) commissioned by Red Shoe Company in 2017 with funding from the University of Michigan's SMTD EXCEL Lab.
Duration: 9'00"
Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2 / 2.2.2.0 / 3 Percussion / Harp / Strings
*Flute II dbl. Piccolo
**Percussion I (Snare Drum, Triangle, Tambourine, Kick Drum, Small Bass Drum) / Percussion II (Marimba, Large Bass Drum) / Percussion III (Vibraphone, Glockenspiel)
"Propellers in the Sun" was premiered in 2016 by the University of Michigan's University Symphony Orchestra in Ann Arbor, MI, conducted by Victor Huls. Revised for performance by U of M’s University Symphony Orchestra with conductor Kenneth Kiesler in 2020. Recording courtesy of the University of Michigan.