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Orchestra:
  • Suite No. 2 for String Orchestra "One like one hundred" (middle-level string orchestra, 15', 2025)
  • One like a hundred (middle-level string orchestra, 6', 2023)
  • Symphony (40’, in progress)
  • The Lovely Soul of Lakeland (5’, 2018)
  • …into the suggestive waters… (10’, 2015)
  • Piano Concerto (20’, 2013)
  • Le Voyage Dans La Lune (silent film score, 13’, 2013)
  • Suite for String Orchestra (10’, 2012)
  • What It’s Like for orchestra (1’, 2010)
  • Five Rhythmic Etudes (15’, 2007)
  • Concerto for trombone and string orchestra (10’, 1994)

Arrangements and Transcriptions for Orchestra:
  • Niccolo Paganini, arr. R. Schumann: Caprice No. 23 in E-flat (6', 2025 (string orchestra))
  • Florence Price: Adoration (3', 2020 (small orchestra), 2022 (full orchestra))
  • Various: Christmas Suite (10’, 2014)
  • Pavel Tschesnekov: Salvation is Created (3', 2012)

Concert Band/Wind Ensemble:​
  • Majestic Fanfare (brass ensemble, 5’, 2020)
  • Mysterious Marvels (5’, 2019)
  • Starry Wanderers (15’, 2014)
  • Postcards from the Grand Tour (5’, 2012)
  • Daytime Drama for clarinet and band (12’, 2012)
  • Moriarty’s Necktie (10’, 2011)
  • Progress Through Knowledge for band with chorus (6’, 2009)
  • Ode (6’, 2008)
  • It is Enough for four clarinets and eight trombones (7’, 2005)
  • Homo sapiens trombonensis for trombone and wind ensemble (12’, 2005)
  • Recommendation Fanfare for brass ensemble (5’, 2004)
  • The First Day of Our Life (concert band version, 3’, 2004)
  • Sinfonietta for double woodwind quintet (10’, 2003)
  • Psalm 57 (6’, 2003)
  • Little Prelude (2’, 2002)
  • Variations on a French Carol (8”, 2001)
  • Dreams of Kosice (5’, 2000)
  • See No Evil, Hear No Evil for brass band (6’, 2000)
  • Graduation Fanfare (2’, 1999)

Arrangements and Transcriptions for Concert Band/Wind Ensemble:
  • Georges Bizet: Carmen, Prelude to Act 1 (2', 2010)
  • Various: Aggie Songs (5', 2009)
  • Anton Bruckner: Locus Iste (3', 2009)

Jazz:
  • Big Bright Lake Blue Sky (jazz octet, 7’, 2021)
  • Maximum Impact (big band, 5’, 2017)
 
Stage:
  • The Story of Pecos Bill (one-act children’s musical, 2004)
 
Choral:
  • Christmas Eve (SATB a cappella, 3', 2021)
  • Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (SSAATTBB a cappella, 4’, 2019)
  • O God, You are My God (SATB with piano, 4’, 2014)
  • Progress Through Knowledge (SATB with band, 6’, 2009)
  • A New Command (SATB, 2’, 2008)
  • For God Alone (SATB, 2’, 2008)
  • Benediction (SATB, 2’, 2008)
  • Return Unto thy Rest, O My Soul (SATB, 4’, 2005)
  • Prayers in Time of War (tenor, SATB and string orchestra, 15’, 2004)
  • In ecclesiis (SATB with piano, 5’, 2004)
  • O God of Love (SATB with piano, 5’, 2004)
  • I Am the Resurrection (SATB with trombone, 2’, 2004)
  • Create in Me (SATB, 2’, 2003)
  • The Beatitudes (SATB with harp and four trombones, 7’, 2003)
  • Acknowledge (SATB, 1’, 2002)


Solo Voice:
  • Short Psalms (contralto and piano, 10', 2022-23)
  • And I Live With the Fiction That I Never Get Mad (baritone and piano, 8’, 2017-18)
  • Woman/Night (soprano with trombone, 10’, 2009-11)
  • El Piano de Genoveva (tenor with mariachi, 6’, 2008)
  • Ophelia Songs (mezzo-soprano with piano, 15’, 2006)
  • Poems of Emily Dickinson (mezzo-soprano with piano, 10’, 2005)
  • Prayers in Time of War (tenor, SATB and string orchestra, 15’, 2004)
  • Seven Sketches (soprano and wind septet, 12’, 1994)
 
Chamber Music:
  • Feetedy Fidge (string quartet, 4', 2024)
  • Christmas Eve (flute choir and celesta, 3', 2024)
  • Minute for Seconds (trumpet, horn, trombone, 1', 2024)
  • Child's Play (wind quintet, 9', 2023)
  • Duo Capriccio (flute & alto flute, 8', arr. 2023)
  • Bay Village Barn Dance (flute and violin, 3', 2023)
  • Summer Night, Windows Open ('cello quartet, 6', 2022)
  • Gamer Troll Loses Control (flute, clarinet, percussion, 2 pianos, string quintet, 9’, 2021)
  • Child’s Play (bass clarinet duo, 9’, 2020)
  • Mind, Body, and Soul (reed quintet, 5’, 2020)
  • First Chapter (violin and piano, 5’, 2019)
  • Channels (Pierrot ensemble plus percussion, 15’, 2018)
  • Alexandrite (trombone and piano, 3’, 2018)
  • Duo Capriccio (flute & clarinet, 8’, 2018)
  • Place of the Sea Mountains (violin, trumpet, and piano, 12’, 2017)
  • On a Clear Night You Can See Forever (violin and piano, 11’, 2017)
  • A Clarion Voice is Ringing (brass quintet, 5’, 2017)
  • Gravity Waves (clarinet and piano, 3’, 2016)
  • The Specious Present (violin and clarinet, 11’, 2016)
  • One-on-One (piano, 4-hands, 3’, 2016)
  • In a Glass, Darkly (tuba/euphonium quartet, 5’, 2014)
  • Lady Glides on the Moon (alto saxophone and percussion, 5’, 2013)
  • Nod á Don (flute choir, 6’, 2012)
  • Lady Glides on the Moon (clarinet and percussion, 5’, 2012)
  • Martian Dances (chamber version, 12’, 2012)
  • Aztecas Dances (woodwind quintet, 7’, 2010)
  • My Uncle Was in Derry (flute, horn and piano, 4’, 2010)
  • Piano Trio (11’, 2009)
  • South Africa (horn and marimba, 10’, 2008)
  • Quintamorous Fantasy (oboe, trumpet and piano, 8’, 2008)
  • Piece for Flute and Harp (5’, 2007)
  • Pastorale (flute, English horn and trombone, 4’, 2007)
  • Sevens (4 trumpets, 4’, 2006)
  • Three Bookish Bagatelles (string quartet, 10’, 2005)
  • Auguries of the Soul (flute and string quartet, 10’, 2005)
  • Pas de deux (alto flute, soprano saxophone and bassoon, 5’, 2005)
  • Hilliard Bestiary (oboe and bassoon, 8’, 2005)
  • Martian Dances (flute, clarinet, trombone, marimba, viola, bass, harpsichord, 12’, 2004) The First Day of Our Life (brass quartet, 3’, 2004)
  • Alphabet Songs (clarinet and trombone, 20’, 1999)
  • In Their Own Languages (handbells and three trombones, 5’, 1999)
  • Preludes to Brahms (clarinet, cello and piano, 4’, 1996)
  • The Generals (2 trumpets, snare drum and narrator, 4’, 1995)


Solo Instrument with Piano Accompaniment:
  • Meditation II for Trumpet/Flugelhorn and Piano (10', 2024)
  • Fantasia on Themes from Bizet's Carmen (baritone saxophone and piano, 10', 2023)
  • First Chapter (violin and piano, 5’, 2019)
  • Alexandrite (trombone and piano, 3’, 2018)
  • On a Clear Night You Can See Forever (violin and piano, 11’, 2017)
  • Gravity Waves (clarinet and piano, 3’, 2016)
  • Autumn Fantasy (alto clarinet and piano, 8’, 2016)
  • Meditation (cello and piano, 10’, 2015)
  • Sonatina (oboe and piano, 10’, 2007)
  • Sonatina (clarinet and piano, 7’, 2007)
  • Sonatina (flute and piano, 10’, 2005)
  • Sonatina (bassoon and piano, 7’, 2003)
  • Toccata (bass clarinet and piano, 3’, 1999)
  • Voyage (trombone and piano, 12’, 1996)
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Solo Instrument:
  • Suite from Seven Last Words (organ, 7’, 2024)
  • Here There Be Dragons! (piano, 3', 2024)
  • Rule of Three (piano, 3', 2022)
  • Flyby (celesta, 4', 2021)
  • Pilaster (carillon, 3', 2021)
  • Power Play (piano, 3’, 2020)
  • Peristyle (guitar, 5’, 2020)
  • Fire Floated (‘cello, 3’, 2018)
  • Sisters in Stone (piano, 11’, 2017)
  • Transmissions and Transmutations (BLF) (flute, 5’, 2016)
  • Seven Last Words (organ, 26’, 2016)
  • The Rainbow’s Daughter (piano, 10’, 2015)
  • Essay in Teal (solo oboe, 4’, 2012)
  • Piano Sonata (15’, 2010)
  • Twenty Views of the Trombone (trombone, 40’, 2009-2017)
  • Starry Wanderers (piano, 15’, 2008)
  • Seinfeld Tetrology (piano, 4’, 2006)
  • New Dance for an Old Piano (piano, 3’, 2004)
  • Rocky Mountain Low (tuba, 2’, 2004)
  • Kleine Stücke (piano, 3’, 2001)


Electroacoustic:
  • Etude (stereo digital playback, 4’, 2007)
  • Out of Doors (tuba with stereo digital playback, 7’, 2006)
  • Let Everything that has Breath Praise the Lord (trombone with stereo digital playback, 5’, 2006)


Additional arrangements and transcriptions for orchestra, band, chorus, and chamber ensembles.
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