Orchestra

Awakening

Instrumentation:

3333 4331 Timp+4Perc Hp Str

Year:
1995-1997
Duration:
13'
Publisher:
Self-published

Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra in One Movement

Fast, driving, barbaric
A tempo, but less immediate
Slowly
Tempo I
Instrumentation:

2222 2220 Timp+2 Harp Strings  Solo 5-octave Marimba

Year:
1994
Duration:
17:00
Publisher:

Fanfare and Dance Variations

Instrumentation:

3*3*3*2 4331 Timp+4 Str

Year:
1984
Duration:
11'
Publisher:

This is my first major completed composition, a true “Opus 1” (save, perhaps, for a few chamber pieces). I completed it prior to having any formal composition study, and is the result of my awakening to classical symphonic music as an expressive avenue for me. My original symphonic influences are worn on its sleeve. As a percussionist/timpanist I was first inspired by the Late Romantic canon (Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, etc.) and early 20th Century masters (Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, etc.), as well as the wind ensemble music I was even more immersed in. As youthful compositions commonly go for all composers, it changes themes frequently and development is negligible. Yet I pursued one idea: a chorale followed by a fast percussive dance pattern from which other melodic themes emerge. The “dance variations” are in the form of returns to the dance patterns with small changes. Finally it drives to an explosion of sorts out of which emerges a timpani ostinato that builds and aims for a triumphant return of the chorale.

It was not until COVID, sometime in 2020, that I finally placed this score into computer notation and created a MIDI recording. By so doing, I was able to clean up a few terrible orchestrational decisions. I consider the work in shape for performance for anyone who wishes to do so.

Piano Concerto

Instrumentation:

2*22*2 2210 Timp Str

Duration:
12'
Publisher:
Self-published

The Ship of Death (Symphony No. 1)

Instrumentation:

Vocal Soloists: Dramatic Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Baritone and Large SATB Chorus and Orchestra [3333 4331 Timp+6Perc Hp Pno/Cel Str]

Year:
1993-1996
Duration:
60'
Publisher:
Self-published

Symphony No. 2

1st Movement (score pg. 1)
2nd Movement (score pg. 46)
3rd Movement (score pg. 110)
4th Movement (score pg. 156)
Instrumentation:

3(Pi) 2 EH 2(Eb) BsCl 2 Ctbn    4331 Timp+4Perc Pno/Cel Hp Str

Year:
2016
Duration:
35:00
Publisher:
Self-published

Tournament

A one movement sinfonietta for small orchestra Read more →

Instrumentation:

2222 2211 TImp(5drs)+1Perc Hp Pno Strgs

Year:
1988
Duration:
12'
Publisher:
Unpublished

White Mountain Daytrip

Instrumentation:

3333 4331 Timp+3 Harp Str

Year:
2000/2004
Duration:
10'
Publisher:
Self-published