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Theatrical Works
Defiant, Majestic, and Beautiful (in progress)
• A theatrical song cycle sharing some slices of life from people who experience transmisogyny. There’s agony, there’s ecstasy, there’s an ode to salt. You can see a reading of most of the cycle over on my YouTube page!
Efflorescence (2020) (with Judy Yin) (micro-opera)
• A ceramics conservation grad student and his boyfriend break into school after hours for some hanky panky only to unleash a supernatural presence that no one was expecting. Shenanigans (and communism) ensue.
Insomniacs (in progress)
• Noah’s hearing things behind the mirror. Samir’s convinced he’s trapped inside a nightmare. Aubrey and Mae stayed out all night dancing, and now the four of them are sitting down to brunch. A surreal full-length play about living towards eternity in a world of constant flux.
Mothman: The Musical (2017) (with Kelsey McConnell)
• It is a dark and stormy night, and an omen of doom has been spotted flitting about the shadows of this small California town. Nadia and June are each preparing for disaster in their own way, but neither are ready for the disaster that actually arrives. Watch a reading of the whole show!
The Other Lizard People (in progress) (with Jen Wang)
• It’s 1933, and the city of Los Angeles is abuzz with a fantastical tale told by George William Shufelt of an underground city of ancient lizard people filled with untold quantities of gold. Also, it’s 1848, and the city of San Francisco is exploding in size as prospectors pour in from all over chasing after rumors of gold. Also, it’s sixty five million years ago, and a meteorite is about to bring the Age of the Dinosaurs to a swift and untimely end. It’s a B-Movie opera about fads and yearnings and points of no return.
Project Tiresias (2018) (with AriDy Nox) (opera)
• Project Tiresias tells the story of T, a medical android with too many feelings. Created by the brilliant scientists Zu and Prasit (with the help of their intern Freda), T must navigate the emotional landscape they are unexpectedly thrust into when they're turned on for the first time, coming into their personhood thru a journey of wonder, anxiety, and loss. Watch a reading of selected excerpts here!
The Quality of Mercy (in progress)
• An operatic re-telling of The Merchant of Venice thru a queer and Jewish lens. When representatives from the Jewish population of Venice petition the Christian government to be allowed to earn a living by any means other than money lending — even if they must pay exorbitant fees and taxes to do so — the mocking, contemptuous response from city officials sets in motion a chain of events that culminate in a bitter courtroom showdown that seemingly only Divine intervention can bring to a peaceful conclusion.
Silver and Stars (2019) (with Aiden Feltkamp) (micro-opera)
• Cal, a nonbinary college student, is trying to connect with their family’s Jewish heritage, but that same family history keeps getting in the way.
Chamber Music
all the days of your vain life (oboe, piano) (2016) (13')
• Written for oboist Jonathan Thompson, all the days of your vain life is a meditation on themes of existentialism, bleakness, and relentlessly constructed joy. (Listen!)
Aubade (fl, vla, hrp) (2013) (7')
• Written for the 2013 fresh inc music festival, Aubade takes the form of a lively and intricate dance to the rising sun. (Listen!)
Dance-Sonata (tuba, piano) (2021) (17’)
• A belligerent, mysterious, ecstatic romp for tuba and piano commissioned by Chris Dickey at Washington State University. A meditation on the limits of form and the need for transformative change.
Rivermusic (saxophone quartet: SATB) (2013) (7')
• This piece is not a programmatic depiction of any specific river or waterway, but rather an abstracted impression of the course of a river more generally. Sextet (SAATTB) version also available. (Listen to movement I and movement II of the quartet version!)
Rotational Games (bassoon, piano) (2015) (17')
• Inspired by various “rotational forms” in music theory and branching out to borrow concepts from airplanes and astrophysics, Rotational Games is an intimate and emotional work that is by turns lyrical, giddy, brooding, and playful. (Listen!)
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2013 –14, rev 2015) (15')
• In three movements, this sonata is a playful romp through various musical landscapes and textures, at turns giddy, lyrical, and rhapsodic. Each movement may be played separately. (Last movement includes optional E-flat Clarinet parts.) (Listen!) (For the theory-inclined, you can read an extended analysis here!)
Vocal and Choral
And Still The Last Abandoned Angel Sings (Hallel) (mezzo) (2’45”)
• A manic, mantic amalgamation of texts inspired by the Jewish hallel service woven into an apocalyptic vision of one last angel surviving the end of the world.
Green Fields (baritone) (2011) (4')
• An elegiac meditation on the precious, transitory nature of life. A version for voice and wind ensemble dedicated to the memory of Michele Dufault also available. (Listen to the wind ensemble version!)
Instructions for Making Bread (contralto or tenor) (2017) (6’)
• My mother’s challah recipe used as found text for a meditation on grief, inheritance, and healing.
Sphere (any voice type) (2017) (4') (with Chase O'Neill)
• A surreal, fragmented text that swallows its own tail, for voice and prerecorded electronics. (Watch a video with the score!)
The World Is Sand (SSAATTB Choir) (4')
• A setting of Wilfred Owen’s “To———” that looks back with painful nostalgia on the lost exuberance of youth.
Solo Instrumental
Atwood Pastorale (piano) (2021) (6’)
• A haunting, ecstatic, mysterious exploration of an imagined landscape in northern California, spun off from the opera Project Tiresias. Draws on themes from the show (some from cut songs), but holds up well as a self-contained musical world all of its own. (Watch the world premiere video on my YouTube channel here!)
Lamentation after Seikilos (picc) (2010, rev 2017) (4')
• An ancient Greek melody, washed up on a foreign shore, dreaming in sad memory of all that has gone before. (Listen!) (Also available in an arrangement for solo bassoon.)
Music for "Kandinsky's Triangle" (2007, rev 2009) (2'30")
• Originally written to accompany a short film, this fantasia on a Gregorian chant fragment stands quite well as a haunting, lyrical meditation on its own.