Compositions

Days, Distance, Days (2023)

for trombone soloist, large ensemble and electronics (1.0.2.Sax.1)/0.0.1.0/Perc/Hp/Pno+Keyboard/Str=0.0.1.1.1) This piece will soon be available via Composers Edition Commissioned and premiered by gageego! with soloist Ivo Nilsson The premiere was given on 18 March 2023 with Aaron conducting Programme Note Days, Distance, Days is a roughly 15-minute concerto for trombone soloist and […]

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Everything Around Me is Crying to Be Gone (2023)

for two harp soloists and large ensemble and electronics (1.0.1.0/1.1.1.0/2hp/perc/keyboard/Str=0.0.1.1.1) This piece will soon be available via Composers Edition Commissioned by Emily Levin for GroundWork(s) Premiered on 10th February 2023 by Emily Levin, Michelle Gott, the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Ben Bolter. Programme Note https://scorefol.io/w/AzrtYFpocDPD2mBiE59s

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I Confused the Shadow with the Light (2022)

for bass flute, bass clarinet, basset horn, harp, percussion, viola, and double bass This piece was commissioned by Distat Terra Festival and premiered on 17th December with a mixed ensemble conducted by Valeria Martinelli

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Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale (2022)

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, electronics and video This piece will soon be available via Composers Edition Commissioned and premiered by Hub New Music Programme Note Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale was inspired and shaped by Dan Albergotti’s short poem of the same title. Written long […]

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I Slow Down (2020)

for two pianos and optional video (Q-lab session available from the composer) Composed during the 2020 COVID Lockdown, this piece translates the first wave of COVID deaths in Minnesota – where my father, brother and sister all work as physicians – into a musical form. The piece has an optional […]

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Imaginary Children I: How I Would Paint the Future

fixed media piece Written after Dia and I found out that our last round of IVF had failed, meaning we will not have more biological children. This piece – made remotely during the COVID2020 Lockdown – ruminates on the feelings of isolation and sadness stirred by this experience (and heighted, […]

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Vernichtung (2019)

Mov. I – Undiralda Mov. II – Stórsjor Mov. III – Brotsjór 1.1.2.TSax.1/4.2.1.1/Solo Bass Clarinet/2Perc/Acc/Str=10.8.6.6.5 This piece was commissioned by Peter Eötvös and the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra for Bass Clarinetist Horia Dumitrache. The world premiere was led by conductor Toby Thatcher

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Like A Memory of Birds II (2019)

2 Cl(II=bass)/0.1.1.1/Perc/Pno/Str=1.1.1.1.1 This piece was commissioned by Peter Eötvös for the Plural Ensemble, and was premiered by them in Madrid on 17th April.

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The New Hymns (2019)

for Solo Viola and live electronics This piece was commissioned by Stephen Upshaw and premiered at NonClassical in London, on 14 Nov. 2018

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Ezra’s Nursery (2018)

for Wind Quintet This piece was commissioned by the 2018/19 Peter Eötvös Mentorship Programme, and was premiered on 6th October at the Budapest Music Centre by Camilla Hotenga, Catherine Milliken, Joria Dumitrache, György Lakatos and András Kovalcsik.

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words repeated arrive eventually and irresistibly at prayer (2018)

for violin, viola and violoncello This piece was commissioned by the 2018/19 Peter Eötvös Mentorship Programme, and was premiered on 2nd June 2018 at the Budapest Music Centre by Peter Mezö, Veronika Halmay and András Kaszanyitzky (Su-Han Yang, Conducting).

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The Long March (2018)

for Clarinet in A, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Violin and Double Bass (Ensemble L’Histoire du Soldat) The full score can be downloaded here. This piece was commissioned by the 2018/19 Peter Eötvös Mentorship Programme, and was premiered at the Budapest Music Centre by the UMZE Ensemble (Toby Thatcher Conducting) on […]

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Roll Your Trumpet (2017)

for piano four hands This piece was commissioned by the HOCKET duo, and will be premiered as part of their 2018-19 season.

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Like a Memory of Birds (2017)

for Marimba and English Horn This piece was commissioned by Joshua and Kristina Graham, and premiered by them in 2017. The Riot Ensemble performed this work at Dark Music Days 2018.

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Forever Fleeing Earth’s Pull (2017)

for flute and guitar This piece was commissioned by Duo Damiana and will be premiered by them in early 2018.

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Nyktomorph (2016)

for Bassoon and String Quartet this piece was commissioned by Ben Roidl-Ward, and was premiered by him in 2016.

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It’s Important to be Able to Return (2016)

for string trio This piece was commissioned by Ensemble Chartreuse, and was premiered by them at MISE-EN PLACE, Bushwick, NYC, 10 June 2016

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How Animals Grieve (2016)

for percussion quartet, with two marimbas (one 5 octave and one 4.3) and custom bell plate (A2, by cymbalsmith Matt Nolan, available at price of shipping from Third Coast Percussion) This piece is dedicated to the memory of my cousin James Shiel, and his son Andy. It was commissioned by Third Coast Percussion, […]

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