COMPOSITIONS & PERFORMANCES
Playing with Fire for Solo Piano
Commissioned by pianist Min Kwon for the America/Beautiful project
2025 - Premiered by Min Kwon at Symphony Space in New York City, May 28
Troubled Sleep for Violin and Piano
Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation/Library of Congress (awaiting premiere)
Intoxications for Brass Quintet
Commissioned by Chamber Music America 2025 and the Juilliard School for the American Brass Quintet (awaiting premiere)
Oceans Apart, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Co-commissioned by Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Music Director Myung Whun Chung, and The Boston Symphony Orchestra, for pianist Garrick Ohlsson
2023 - Premiered by The Boston Symphony Orchestra and pianist Garrick Ohlsson under the direction of Alan Gilbert, Symphony Hall, Boston MA, January 12,13, and 14
Due Per Due for Cello and Piano
Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment in 2007 for NY Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey
2010 - Premiered with Carter Brey and Christopher O’Riley, February 5 at Montclair College
2012 - Performances by Cellist Jay Campbell at Bargemusic, June 9, August 28, 29
2019 - Performances by cellist Julian Schwarz at Symphony Space, NYC, and the Charles Ives Music Festival, CT
2025 - Performances across Italy in Naples, Florence, Venice, and Milan by cellist Zlatomir Fung and pianist Richard Fu
The House of the Spirits - Opera in 3 Acts
Noted novelist Isabel Allende granted the rights to adapt her novel and film as an opera. Librettist/poet JD McClatchy has agreed to write the libretto, and a commission is under consideration at major opera houses in the US, Scandinavia, and other European countries.
Blue and Gold Music for Organ and Brass
Commissioned by the Trinity School for their 300th anniversary
2008 - Premiered October 4 at the Riverside Church Cathedral in New York City, with The American Brass Quintet and Colin Fowler, organist
2008 - Recorded for ABQ 50th anniversary CD
2020 - Performance with organist Renne Anne Louprette at The Church of the Ascension, NYC
Music for Piano Trio – The March of Folly
2006 - Premiere recording for Bridge Records, Ani Kavafian, violin; Carter Brey, cello; Jeremy Denk, piano
2009 - World premiere Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, with Ani Kavafian, violin; Carter Brey, cello; Shai Wosner, piano
Blue Mountain, A Chamber Opera in One Act
Commissioned by Det Norske Blåseensemble
2007 - Premiered October 8,9,10 in Oslo, Norway, in Kanonhallen, singers from the Oslo State Opera, and Det Norske Blåseensemble, Kenneth Jean conducting
2008 - Recorded and released on Bridge Records
Two Concert Etudes for Piano
Commissioned by the New York State Association of Music Teachers
2001 - Premiere at the NYAMT Convention, Steven Masi, piano
2001 - Merkin Hall, New York. Numerous performances in the US
2006 - Recorded for Bridge Records, Garrick Ohlsson, piano
2006 - Performances by Garrick Ohlsson in Cleveland (Chamber Music Society), San Francisco, Santa Rosa
2009 - Carnegie/Zankel Hall, Alexandre Moutouzkine, piano
20? Charles Ives Festival, Mika Sasaki, piano
Sketches for Violin, Cello and Piano
Commissioned by the Rheuminations Foundation
Sonata for Piano
Published by Theodore Presser Company under the Presser Foundation Grant
1987 - Premiere at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, as featured work in
The American Festival of Contemporary Music, Meral Guneyman, piano, and broadcast by WGMS Washington
1987 - Washington Square Contemporary Music Series, Merkin Hall, Eliza Garth, piano
1988 - The Chautaqua Music Festival, Chautaqua, New York, Steven Masi, piano
1999 - Loewe Theater, New York University, Steven Gosling, piano
2001 - Hamptons Summer Music Festival, Steven Masi, piano
2003 - San Francisco Symphony Chamber Series at Old First Concerts
2006 - Recorded by pianist Garrick Ohlsson on Bridge Records
2008 - Performances in New York Town Hall, Philadelphia Kimmel Center, Akron, Cleveland, and Fairfield by Garrick Ohlsson, piano
2011 - The Barge, NYC, William Wolfram, piano
I Carry Your Heart, for men's chorus and piano
Text by E. E. Cummings, commissioned by the Cincinnati Men's Chorus, premiered by the Empire City Men's Chorus, New York, Vince Peterson, conductor
String Quartet No. 1
Recorded by the Primavera String Quartet, used in a ballet by choreographer Anna Sokolow
Nowhere But Light, Fantasia for Piano and 26 Winds
Ballet score for Juilliard Dance Concert, and subsequently the Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater - Kazuko Hirabayashi, choreographer
Musica Humana, Symphonic Poem for Large Orchestra
1981 - Premiere by The Juilliard Orchestra with Sixten Ehrling conducting, Alice Tully Hall, NYC
1983 - Subscription performances by The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Kenneth Jean conducting