compositions for SOLO INSTRUMENT

See also "chamber music/duets" for solo music with piano accompaniment

PIANO SOLO

Variation on “Darling I’m Indeed Useless To You” (2008)
for piano. 12 seconds. Commissioned by Kai Schumacher as part of a variations-set by multiple composers.

Nocturnes and Reveries (2004)
six preludes for piano. 13 minutes. Commissioned by The Mondavi Center of the University of California at Davis for pianist Lara Downes in collaboration with filmmakers Glenda Drew and Jesse Drew and dancer/choreographer David Grenke. [Purchase sheet music online] [Available on CD]
[Hear a recording of Nocturnes and Reveries]

Those Mean Reds (1999)
for piano. 10 minutes. Premiered by Blair McMillen at Trinity Church, New York, NY.
[Read program note] [Purchase sheet music online]

CELLO SOLO

There Comes My Heart (2004)
for cello. 2 minutes. Composed for Amy Sue Barston. Also arranged for three-voice cello choir, solo viola and solo violin. [Purchase sheet music online]

Red Herring (2003)
for cello. 12 minutes. Composed for Amy Sue Barston. [Read program note] [Purchase sheet music online]
movements may be performed separately: Leslie, I love my love with a v and Oswald's Groove

PERCUSSION SOLO

Repercussion (2009)
etude for xylophone. 2 minutes. Composed for Samuel Z. Solomon and the Massachussets Percussive Arts Society. Bachovich Music Publications.

Lightning Round (2009)
etude for marimba. 2 minutes. Composed for Samuel Z. Solomon and the Massachussets Percussive Arts Society. Download for free.

stars, cars, bars (1999)
for marimbist/speaker. 10 minutes. Text from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Composed for and premiered by Paul Fadoul. Australian premiere performed by John Dewhurst. Also performed by Samuel Z. Solomon, Daniel Pate, and others. [Purchase sheet music online]

OTHER INSTRUMENTS

The Violinist Plays Alone (2005)
for violin. 12 minutes. Composed for Lina Bahn.

There Comes My Heart (2004)
arrangements for solo violin or solo viola. 2 minutes. Originally composed for solo cello (see above).
[Purchase sheet music online]

Molasses in January (2000)
for contrabass. 8 minutes. Composed for Matthew Reeder. [Purchase sheet music online]

Alaap and Alembic (1997)
for electric guitar. 8 minutes. Composed for and premiered by the composer.