List of Works

List of Works

ORCHESTRAL

2005 It's Not Me (it's her)
full orchestra (no percussion)
6'

2001 Shemà
Mezzo Soprano, chamber orchestra, live electronics configuration by a sound engineering
team (Francesco Giomi, Kilian Schwoon, and Damiano Meaci) from Tempo Reale, Florence
11’
Premiered 6/6/01 at the Arena del Sole, Bologna Italy, Pietro Borgonovo, Director, Cristina
Zavalloni Mezzo, Ensemble Quadrivium.

2000 In Sleep a King
Chamber Orchestra 7’
Morton Gould ASCAP Young Composers Award (2000) premiered May 2000 by the Cornell
Festival Chamber Orchestra, Mark Davis Scatterday, Director. Awarded the James
Blackmore Prize from Cornell in 2000.

WIND ENSEMBLE

2004 Espresso
wind ensemble 5’
Commissioned by Cornell University, David Conn, Conductor. Premiered May 9, 2004, at
Ithaca College, by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble, David Conn, Conductor. Awarded
the 2004 bi-annual ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennel Prize for Young Composers of Concert
Band Music.

CHAMBER

2004 Ten Songs about New York City
Mezzo-soprano and piano 15’
Written at the Aaron Copland House Residency, commissioned by Cristina Zavalloni.
Upcoming premiere, Fall 2004, Bologna, Italy.

2003 Blur
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, String Quintet 8’
Commissioned by Ensemble X
Morton Gould ASCAP Young Composers Award (2004)

2003 The Gourmand’s Lament
Mezzo-soprano and piano 3’
Text by Caryl Avery
Premiered by Shane Lavesque, piano and Judy Kellock, voice, Cornell University 10/21/03

2003 Aspen Fanfare
Brass Quintet 2’
Premiered by students of the Aspen Music Festival and School, Aspen, CO (7/2004)

2003 Flightline
Violin and Piano 5’
Commissioned by Annebeth Webb, member, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

2002 Purity Guaranteed
Flute/Piccolo/Alto Flute and Violin 5’
Commissioned by the Morini/Porta Duo and premiered by Morini/Porta on their Italian tour
2002 and at the KlANGriffe Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany 2003.

2000 Death in Venice
Solo trumpet 7’
Premiered by Frank Gabriel Campos, Hackett Recital Hall, Ithaca, New York
Published by TuttiScore, Paris 2004

1999 Meditation on a Theme of Bach
Amplified piano
Premiered at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, U.S. – Italy Exchange
Yotam Haber, Piano 11/19/99

1999 Rotolo Ripieno: a recipe
Clarinet, cello, and piano 10’
Premiered at Barnes Hall, Cornell University, 5/99. Heidi Hoffman, Cello, Lisa Leong, Piano,
Richard Faria, Clarinet.
Winner of the first Ensemble X Composition Competition

1998 Ossi di Seppia
Five songs for two pianos and soprano. 20’
Texts by: Montale, Heine, and Ratosh.
First performance, Indiana University, 5/98, Gitanjali Mathur, Soprano, Helane Anderson,
Piano.

THEATER/OPERA

2003 Incidental music for King Lear
Chamber ensemble combinations from solo clarinet to full orchestra. 15’
Composed at the Tanglewood Music Festival for Shakespeare & Co. production Summer and
Fall, 2003 Lenox, MA.

2002 The Second Bakery Attack
Chamber Opera – sinfonietta ensemble, Mezzo, Baritone, Chorus – Act I. 25’
Libretto by Sarah Lagrotteria based on the short story by Haruki Murakami (used with
permission of author). Produced and Premiered in Ithaca, NY. 4/6/2002. Cristina Zavalloni,
Role of Wife, Steven Stull, role of Husband, Cornell Chamber Singers, Festival Chamber
Orchestra, Yotam Haber, Conductor. Awarded the Cornell Barbara Trixell Vocal Composition
Prize.

FILM

2000 In the Penal Colony
Short film score to a stop-motion claymation version of Franz Kafka’s story. 10’
Piano, Cello, and Percussion
Drew Hildebrand, Director.
First screening 5/14/00 Cornell University Young Filmmakers Festival
This film was made thanks to a Melville Shavelson Film Grant