COMPOSITIONS FOR CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

See also "orchestra and large ensemble" for works with more than eight players

OCTETS

Spark in the Shoe (2006)
for flute, soprano saxophone, percussion, electric guitar, piano, violin, cello and bass. 5 minutes. For Fireworks.

SEXTETS

I echo you, we are repeated (2002, arr. 2004)
for six or twelve saxophones, SSATTB. Arranged for The Crane School of Music Saxophone Ensemble, Timothy McAllister, director. Also available in saxophone quartet (AATB) edition. [Purchase sheet music online]

In Another Man's Skin (2000)
for flute/piccolo, clarinet in b-flat, percussion (5-octave marimba, two crotales, three triangles), piano, violin, and cello. 18 minutes. Commissioned by Eighth Blackbird. Premiered at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, New York, NY.  
[listen to audio sample] [Purchase sheet music online]

QUINTETS

Rondo of Sorts (2001)
for flute, clarinet in b-flat, piano, violin, cello, and three pre-recorded clarinets. 13 minutes. Commissioned by Kylix New Music Ensemble. Premiered at the Cincinnatti Conservatory. [read program note]

QUARTETS

STRING
QUARTETS

Corrie Q's Jigs and Reels (String Quartet #3) (2005)
for two violins, viola, and cello. 14 minutes. Commissioned by The Corigliano String Quartet. [listen to audio sample] [Purchase sheet music online]

Peterborough (String Quartet #2) (2000)
for two violins, viola, and cello. 30 minutes. Premiered by the Minimum Security Ensemble at Trinity Church, New Haven, CT.
[listen to audio sample] [Purchase sheet music online]

Durham (Triangle Quartet) (1996)
for string quartet in 11-limit microtonal "just intonation." 20 minutes. Premiered by the Flux Quartet at the American Festival of Microtonal Music.

PERCUSSION
QUARTETS

Quick Blood (2001)
for percussion quartet: xylophone, 2 5-octave marimbas, 2 vibraphones, 2 triangles, crotales, bass drum. 5 minutes. Commissioned by Battery Four, premiered at the Delaware Symphony Chamber Series. [Purchase sheet music online]

Telemusic (1998)
for two amplified telephones, two percussionsists, and tape. 8 minutes. Premiered at the Yale School of Music.

SAXOPHONE
QUARTETS

Just a Minute, Chopin (2004)
for saxophone quartet (SATB). 2 minutes. Commissioned by The Prism Saxophone Quartet. Premiered at Kerrytown Concert Hall (Ann Arbor, MI), Symphony Space (New York, NY), and Trinity Center for Urban Life (Philadelphia, PA)

I echo you, we are repeated (2002, arr. 2004)
for saxophone quartet (AATB). 6 minutes. Also available in editions for six and twelve saxophones.
[Purchase sheet music online]

OTHER
QUARTETS

Three Fell Swoops (2004)
for tenor saxophone, percussion (vibraphone, glockenspiel, crotales, triangle, tambourine, suspended cymbal, wood block, 2 bongos, 2 congas), guitar (amplified), and piano. 12 minutes. Commissioned by Flexible Music. Premiered at the Guitars International Festval at the Cleveland Institute of Music. [read program note] [Purchase sheet music online]

Sloe Gin Kills Fish! (2000)
for two trumpets in C, horn and trombone. 6 minutes. Commissioned by Skyline Brass, premiered in Des Moines, IA.

E Uno Plures (1998)
for clarinet, violin, cello and piano. 15 minutes. Commissioned by Antares, premiered at Christ & St. Stephen's Church, New York, NY.
[Purchase sheet music online]

Just Music Makes Me Lose My Temper (1995)
for electric guitar, keyboard and two percussionists. 12 minutes. In microtonal just-intonation.

TRIOS

Ricochet (2004)
for clarinet in b-flat, viola, and piano. 8 minutes. Commissioned by Strata, premiered at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.  [read program note] [Purchase score]

Sturm (2002)
for violin, cello, and piano. 18 minutes. Commissioned by The Amelia Piano Trio, premiered at the La Jolla Chamber Music Society.
[read program note] [listen to audio sample] [Purchase sheet music online]

The Flame That Lights the Gloom (1999)
for flute, electric guitar and marimba. 10 minutes. Commissioned by The Kamellion Ensemble, premiered at the Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare (1999)
for flute, clarinet in b-flat, and piano. 13 minutes. Also arranged for violin, clarinet in b-flat, and piano.
[read program note] [Purchase sheet music online]

Julia Rigby (1998)
for violin, viola, and cello. 6 minutes.

DUETS

Duo Vert (2007)
for viola and cello. Commissioned by The Commission Project for the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival.

McAllister's Ceilidh (2006)
for soprano saxophone and piano. 5 minutes. Commissioned by Timothy McAllister.

Baby Blackbird, Fly Now (2004)
for cello and piano. 2 minutes.

Strawberry Fields Continued (2002)
for cello, percussion, and recording. 8 minutes. Commissioned by Odd Appetite, premiered at The Cutting Room in New York, NY.

(Everything Else is Just) Gravy (2000)
for two contrabasses. 10 minutes. Commissioned by Matthew Reeder, premiered at Indiana University.

Eleven Delaware Exits Between Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania (1999)
for two violins, also arranged for two violas. 8 minutes. Commissioned by The Gemini Duo, premiered at Christ & St. Stephen's Church, New York, NY. [Purchase sheet music online]