CHAMBER
Underlined titles link to sound files and program notes.
"The Time's Been Sweet" (2010, rev. 2012) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello. Premiered at June in Buffalo 2013 by Ensemble Linea
"Gethsemani Verses" (2014) for alto saxophone duo
Commissioned by Masahito Sugihara with a Sam Houston State University Faculty Research Grant
"The Years Roll Round" for viola and cello
Written for Nina Bledsoe and Daniel Saenz
Premiered at Sam Houston State University, April 2019
"Weary Pilgrim" (2018) for string quartet
Written for the Westheimer String Quartet
Premiered at Lone Star College-CyFair, April 2018
“My son, come tell to me” (2015) for trumpet, horn and trombone
Premiered at SHSU, October 2015
“Dulcimer Songs” (2011, 2014) for piano and 9 strings
Premiered by Ilonka Rus-Edery, piano, and the SHSU Sinfonietta.
Composer conducting. SHSU, April 2015
“If I can reach the charming sound” (2013) for guitar, keyboard percussion, piano and harp
Premiered by members of SHSU New Music Lab
SHSU Contemporary Music Festival 2013
“A Circle of Stone” (2013) for cello and percussion.
Premiered by Daniel Saenz (cello) and Adam Beard (percussion)
Moores Opera House, February 2013
“Hymn and Shimmy” (2012) for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
Premiered by faculty artists Patricia Card, Megan Blauvelt-Heuer, and Nathan Koch at Sam Houston State University, October 2012
“Stories I could tell” – little poems (2012) for clarinet quartet
Premiered by SHSU Student Quartet
Sam Houston State University, October 2012
“Pastorale” (2010) for woodwind quartet.
Recorded by students Morgan Gentry, Analis Mays, Jake Smith,
Sonia Nieto, and Jenny Yang
Sam Houston State University, October 2012
"Ev'ning Shades Appear" (2009) for cello duet
Written for Andrew Cavazos and Daron Kirsch
Sam Houston State University, 2009
"Drakeville Ballad" for violin and guitar
Written for faculty artists Naomi Gjevre and Alejandro Montiel
Sam Houston State University, 2009
"Antiphonal Prelude" for three trumpets
Sam Houston State University, April 2005
"In returning and rest" for woodwind quintet. Commissioned by OMAGGIO, the memorial festival for Berio in London, 2004
