String Quartet (2015; 2 violins, viola, violoncello; 23')
Announcement (2015; trumpet (C); 2')
Two for Three (2013; clarinet, alto saxophone, marimba/vibraphone; 12)
When Your Time Is Orange (2012; solo percussion; 7')
How Clean The Sun (2012; violin, violoncello, piano; 5')
What stays with me V: for John Cage (2012; three clarinets; 5')
Intertwining Geometries (2012; alto flute, bass clarinet; 7')
Episodes and Incidents (2012; bassoon; 5')
Macomb Variations (2012; clarinet, violin, cello, piano; 20')
Percussion Concerto (2012; percussion solo, wind orchestra; commissioned by John Parks; 22’)
Some Canons, A Motet, and a Lament (2011; three trombones; 8')
Of Three Minds (2011; horn; 6')
What stays with me IV: for W. E. Hicken (2010; bass clarinet, bass trombone, cello, timpani; 10')
The River Flowing Through Me (1993, 2010; viola; 5’)
The Dialectic of Motion and Stasis in Kinetic Art (2010; piano; 11’)
Two Fragments (2010; 6’)
I. When Nothing Happens (vibraphone)
II. Time’s Arrow (marimba)
twitterpieces (2009- ; various instruments and voices; length indeterminate)
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w/r/t DFW: what stays with me III (2008; clarinet, string quartet; 8’)
American Song (2008; trombone; 4’)
The Rings of Saturn (2008; clarinet, viola; 7’)
Springform (2008; tambourine; 2’)
A Mind of Winter (2008; piano; 2’)
Lullaby (2007; piano; 2’)
Spiral Geometries (2006; clarinet, alto saxophone; 5’)
Night Music (2005; oboe; 5’)
Piano Sonata (1990-2004) 27’
I. The water is a fire (1990; commissioned by John Salmon)
II. Vivid Transparence (2004; commissioned by Amie Backstrom)
III. It’s my dreaming alone that lets me sleep (1997; commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation)
Six Landscapes (after Wallace Stevens) (2004; clarinet; 8’)
for John Boda: what stays with me II (2002; flute, clarinet, marimba; 9’)
This Distance (2002; double bass; 4’)
And would not be consoled (2001; piano, string quartet; 11’)
Episodes in Anticipation (2001; wind orchestra; commissioned by Furman University; 10’)
Efflorescent Geometries (1998; clarinet, violin, marimba; 9’)
Serenade XX (1997; violin; 11’)
Two Songs (on poems of Jan Austin-Hicken) (1987, 1996; soprano, pinao; 7’)
The dark and delicate figures that sing (1993; guitar; commissioned by Leo Welch; 5’)
Viola Concerto (1993; viola, orchestra; commissioned by Pamela Ryan; 30’)
Borrowed Landscapes (1991; brass quintet; commissioned by Florida State University; 15’)
. . . yellow forms . . . bits of blue . . . touched red . . . (1991; flute, violoncello; commissioned by Andrew Luchansky; 7’)
Radiant Geometries (1989; two trumpets; 3’)
Chamber Symphony (1988; flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, percussion; 22’)
what stays with me (1988; saxophone trio; commissioned by Patrick Meighan; 8’)
The long season of waiting (1988; alto flute; 3’)
Music for Ramon Fernandez (1987; flute, chamber orchestra; 26’)
