Works
Click the links for details (audio, program notes, score excerpts, etc.) or to inquire about obtaining a score. Some works include multiple movements, which may be programmed individually. Scroll below for Solos & Duos, Chamber Works, Vocal & Opera, and Orchestra & Wind Band.
Solos & Duos
Three London Etudes (2024); solo piano, 14’ | commissioned & inspired by American artist Peter London’s visual works
firefly dusk (2024); solo piano, 8’
fireflies (2023); violin duo, 8’ | commissioned by Sharan Leventhal
snow day (2022); solo piano, 8’ | commissioned by Sakurako Kanemitsu
Colors in Motion (2021); solo viola, >8’ | commissioned & inspired by American artists Peter London & Gregory Guss’s visual works
in a field of stars (2020); cello & piano, 14’
Reverie (2018); solo cello, 4’
Echoes (2017); solo piano, >7’
The Floating Island II (2014/17); solo piano, 9’ | commissioned by Sakurako Kanemitsu, inspired by Canadian writer Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.
Two Pieces in Variable Order for Solo Percussion, (2018); 14’
Für Arvo (2017); clarinet & piano or solo piano, 4’
Flying (2016); solo marimba, 10’ | commissioned by Tyler Tsunekawa
The Floating Island (2014); euphonium (or trombone) & piano, 10’ | commissioned by Todd Seagren, inspired by Canadian writer Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.
Drought (2014); bass trombone & solo marimba, 10’ | commissioned by Taylor Fong & Tyler Tsunekawa
Droplets (2013); solo piano, 4’
Under Moonlight (2012); solo piano, 7’
Fantasy for Two Pianos (2011); 8’
Evening (2008); solo flute, 4’
Five Poems from Bodega Bay (2008); solo piano, 10’
Moods of the Sea (2006); solo piano, 10’
Chamber Works
Meditations (2025); flute, bass trombone, percussion, fixed media; 20’ | commissioned by Fourth Wall Ensemble
fireflies gather (2025); flute, trombone, cello, piano, percussion; 10’
Piece of Mind (2021); clarinet, horn, viola, cello; 7’ | commissioned by Landscape Music Composers Network
vox mysterium (2020); flute, clarinet, violin, cello; 6’
Thought Bubbles (2018); string quartet; 10’
Night Walk (2018); flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano; 7’
Three Solar Essences (2017); flute, clarinet, bass trombone, violin, cello, percussion, piano; 15’
Heartstrings (2016); piano quartet; 30’ | dance work commissioned by Hawkins School for the Performing Arts
Transfiguration (2016); piano trio; 8’
Mists and Sparks (2015); clarinet, violin, percussion; 6’
Saltscape (2015); flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano; 15’ | commissioned by Citywater
Up Close and from a Distance (2014); flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello; 5’ | commissioned by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, inspired by Ghanaian-Nigerian artist El Anatsui
Acqua e Luce (2012); string quartet; 7’
Quintet - Men in the Sun (2010); flute, clarinet, viola (or violin), cello, vibraphone/tambourine; 20’ | inspired by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani’s novella
Vocal & Opera
New Work (in progress); soprano & piano, ca. 7-10’ | commissioned by Dana Varga, text by Syrian-French writer Maram Al-Masri
The School for Girls Who Lost Everything in the Fire (in progress); full-length opera, story/libretto by Colombian-American writer Cristina Fríes with development/support from West Edge Opera
july midnight (2023); soprano & piano, 5’ | commissioned by Sakura & Rose Duo, text by New-England writer Amy Lowell
The Robin (2020); soprano, piccolo, cello, piano; 14’ | commissioned by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, text by Lebanese-American writer Gibran Khalil Gibran
Moon, Bride, Dogs (2019); chamber opera for three singers and piano quintet or quartet, 20’ | story/libretto by Cristina Fríes, workshopped with NANOworks
Bones of Girls (2019); chamber opera for three singers and piano, 30’ | story/libretto by Cristina Fríes, for Rogue Music Project
decketh joy, water destroy (2018); soprano & piano or mixed chamber ensemble, 10’ | text by New-England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Orchestra & Wind Band
New Work (in progress); chamber orchestra: 1.1.1.1 / 1.1.1.0-perc. / 1.1.1.1.1; ca. 8-12’
Piano Concerto (2020); orchestra: 2.2.2.2 / 2.2.3.1 / 2 perc. / piano solo / strings; 35’ | for Sakurako Kanemitsu
Skies of Smoke (2019); orchestra: 2.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / timp. + 2 perc. + piano / strings; 5’
Burning (2019); orchestra: 2.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / timp. + 2 perc. + piano / strings; 10’ | commissioned by Pete Nowlen & the Symphony d’Oro
Reflections (2015); symphonic wind ensemble (grade 4.8), 10’ | commissioned by Robert Halseth & the Sacramento State SWE
The Red Velvet Violin Suite (2015); orchestra: 3.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / 4 perc. / strings (+ violin soloist); 25’ | suite version for Leo Eylar & the Sacramento State Symphony Orchestra
The Red Velvet Violin (2014); a symphonic puppet show for children: 2.1.2.1 / 2.2.2.0 / 4 perc. / strings (+ violin soloist) + narrator; 40’ | story by Anna Moreno, commissioned by Angelo Moreno & the Davis Schools Association for Orchestral Music
Anachronistic Visions (2013); for Baroque orchestra: 2.2.0.0 / 0.0.0.0 / perc. / 2.2.2.2.1, harpsichord; 15’ | commissioned by Lorna Peters & Camerata Capistrano
Illusion (2009); for concert band (grade 3.8), 5’