String Quartet No. 1: mvt. 1 (Excursion)

(2016, Published by Masters Music) Program Notes: Music historian and IUP colleague, Irving Godt, once said to me: “You are not a real composer until you’ve written a string quartet!” With the establishing of the Litton Quartet at IUP, I began work on this four-movement work in 2008. The movements are quite contrasting with the […]

String Quartet No. 1: mvt. 4 (Introduction & Dance)

(2016, Published by Masters Music) Program Notes: Music historian and IUP colleague, Irving Godt, once said to me: “You are not a real composer until you’ve written a string quartet!” With the establishing of the Litton Quartet at IUP, I began work on this four-movement work in 2008. The movements are quite contrasting with the […]

Recitatives and Episodes​

(2017, manuscript) Written as a gift to the Soltis String Quartet of Vanderbilt University for their graduation recital. Premiered March,

Journey Past the Unicorn

For Soprano and Vibraphone (Permus Publications) Lauren Shuyler, soprano Jack Stamp, vibraphone

Canticle: Voce Cadentes

For Chorus, Band, Strings and Narrator (2011) (Anna George Meek, Librettist; Written in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the ​September 11, 2000, tragedy.