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COMPOSITIONS opera       orchestra       orchestra with voices       music theater and dance       solo and chamber ensemble choral solo voice with ensemble vocal solo with piano OPERA American Atheist (work in progress)  Chamber opera        - Development by the American Opera Projects Darkling (75 minutes)  Chamber opera for four voices and string quartet        - Commissioned by the American Opera Projects        - From the book by Anna Rabinowitz.  Adapted by Michael Comlish.        - Selected to be part of the Guggenheim Museum’s "Works & Process" series        - The opera includes an optional song for baritone and piano: "The Darkling Thrush," by Lee Hoiby. Fade (25 minutes) A one-act opera for three voices and chamber orchestra        - Commissioned by London's Second Movement        - Libretto by David Cote Meetings (20 minutes) For soprano, baritone, and bass with piano        - Written for the American Opera Projects' "Composer and the Voice"        - Text by Robert Honeywell The Scarlet Ibis (100 minutes) Chamber opera        - Libretto by David Cote        - Premiered in the PROTOTYPE Opera Festival        - Co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, in association with the American Opera Projects        - Additional productions by Chicago Opera Theater and Boston Opera Collaborative ORCHESTRA ...and sometimes they come back  (13 minutes)  For orchestra        - Commissioned and premiered by the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra                 conducted by Luis Garcia-Renart The Bird Happened (11 minutes) For orchestra        - Selected for the American Composers Orchestra's 2005 Underwood New Music Readings        - Read by the New Jersey Symphony Orchstra Crabapple (10 minutes)  For orchestra flea circus (12 minutes)  For orchestra        - Premiered by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic conducted by Leon Botstein Thistle (10 minutes)  For two violins, two cellos and string orchestra ORCHESTRA WITH VOICES David and Jonathan (20 minutes)  For men’s choir and orchestra.        - Commissioned and premiered by the Empire City Men's Chorus with the Cosmopolitan                     Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Babcock Rope (10 minutes)  For soprano and chamber orchestra MUSIC THEATER and DANCE Bleed: Redrum, Liquid Blues and The Green Machine  (12 minutes)  Video art       - Collaboration with Jillian Mcdonald Calabi Yau (aka What the Fuck is String Theory?)  Incidental music for theater        - Collaboration with Susanna Speier Coney’s Mind  Music for dance       - Collaboration with the Kristi Spessard Dance Company Greenland Y2K  Incidental music for theater       - Collaboration with Susanna Speier Two/Her Music for dance, for voice, violin and piano       - For the New Chamber Ballet and ad hoc Ballet, choreography by Deborah Lohse SOLO and CHAMBER ENSEMBLE New Piece (in progress) For flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion       - For eighth blackbird 4th Place (9 minutes) For percussion quartet       - Written for the Iktus Percussion Quartet Ad Lib (10 minutes) For solo organ        - Premiered by David Messineo Big Red (20 minutes)  For clarinet solo        - Premiered by Meighan Stoops The Book of Rejected Addresses (25 minutes)  For viola and piano Close (4 minutes) For guitar solo       - Written for James Moore Crash (9 minutes) For string trio        - Commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival in honor of George Crumb's 75th birthday        - Premiered by the Third Angle New Music Ensemble The Fishtank Sonata  (15 minutes)  For tape and snare drum Fuse Action (7 minutes) For flute and clarinet       - Written for the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble Hammer Time (8 minutes) For solo piano        - Premiered by Lisa Moore Nervous People  (25 minutes) For trumpet and string quartet        - Premiered at a Bang on a Can Marathon Concert by the Miró Quartet                 with Tom Hoyt, trumpet Piano Trio (14 minutes) For violin, cello and piano        - Premiered by Da Capo Chamber Players Restless Legs (14 minutes) For clarinet, piano, electric guitar, cello, percussion, contrabass        - Commissioned by the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund for the Bang on a Can All-Stars Skin Nails Hair (14 minutes) For flute and percussion       - Written for the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble SuperSoft (10 minutes) For cello and percussion       - Written for Odd Appetite       - Winner of the soundON Festival of Modern Music's 2009 International Call for Scores Stick-Shift Confessions  (25 minutes) For marimba solo        - Commissioned by Minimum Security Composers Collective        - Premiered by Paul Fadoul TOE (Theory of Everything) (15 minutes) For soprano saxophone (or clarinet) and vibraphone        - Premiered by Yesaroun’ Duo Trumpet (12 minutes) for string quartet The Twins  (15 minutes)  For two flutes and organ        - Premiered by Laura Ronai and Tom Moore with David Messineo What the Water Gave Me  (5 minutes) For carillon        - Published in Albany Carillon Book CHORAL Darkling Suite (17 minutes)  For mezzo-soprano, chorus and string quartet        - Text by Anna Rabinowitz  The Emerald Table (6 minutes) For a cappella chorus (SSAA+SATB)        - Commissioned by Zachary Gates and the East Brunswick Educational Foundation        - Text by Hermes Trismegistus, translated by Isaac Newton   Hummer (5 minutes)  For four amplified voices (humming) and electric guitar Light, light, light, light, light  (6 minutes) For a cappella chorus (SATB)        - Commissioned and premiered by the Battell Chapel Choir conducted by Stephen Black        - Text by Timothy Dudley-Smith        - First-prize winner in Roger Wagner Center’s Choral Composition Competition Rules and Regulations (7 minutes) For women's choir (SSAA)       - Commissioned by Jessica Corbin for the Bella Voce Singers       - Text by Lewis Carroll SOLO VOICE with ENSEMBLE Everywhere Feathers (8 minutes) For voice, cello, and pre-recorded audio.        - Text by Anna Rabinowitz.        - Written for Jody Redhage, voice/cello Everywhere Feathers (8 minutes) For soprano and electric guitar       - Arranged for Ursula's End (David and Holly Nadal) From Frankenstein (25 minutes) For mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano        - Premiered by the New Millennium Ensemble with Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano        - First Prize winner in the Chicago Ensemble's "Discover America" competition Galesburg, Illinois (Where Are the Trees?) (6 minutes) For soprano, flute, clarinet, electric guitar, piano, contrabass        - Arranged for the NOW Ensemble        - Text by Dorothea Tanning Ha! (14 minutes)  For mezzo-soprano and string quartet I Would Prefer Not To (6 minutes) For soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, synthesizer, electric guitar, vibraphone        - Arranged for Newspeak             - Originally commissioned by Sequitur Two Shakespeare Songs  (6 minutes)        - Premiered by Dan Sonenberg and Matt Schikele VOCAL SOLO with PIANO Galesburg, Illinois (Where Are the Trees?) (6 minutes) for soprano and piano        - Written for Dorothea Tanning Tribute        - Text by Dorothea Tanning Non-Fiction 1 (15 minutes) Three songs for low voice and piano        "Vanshing Point" (Text by Sean Mills)        "Urban Trees" (Text by Jon Stokes, UK Tree Council; adapted by the composer)        "Twinkie" (Text by Hostess)        - Written for the American Opera Projects' "Composer and the Voice"          Non-Fiction 2 (15 minutes) Three songs for high voice and piano        "I Would Prefer Not To" (Public Domain) - Commissioned by Sequitur        "Beauty Tips (for Girls)" (Text by Lorene Radenz; adapted by the composer)        "Law of the Jungle 1" (Based on a 01/09/02 story in The Daily Mirror; adapted by the composer)        - Written for the American Opera Projects' "Composer and the Voice" Ode to Fiberoptic Cables and Light (4 minutes) for voice and synthesizer     - Collaboration with Linda Ganjian, video artist; Susanna Speier, writer

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