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Solo & Duo

( )hole complex: per/formance/eration

Commissioned by Garden Unit, premiered March 25, 2023 at Constellation (Chicago, IL).

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For soprano saxophone and clarinet (2022)

A sigh with the texture of a fleshy wedge

Premiered by Ava Wirth (The _____ Experiment) at Narloch Piano Studio, October 16, 2022.

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For oboe solo (2021-2022)

Adaptive Artifaction/Eschautomation

Commissioned and premiered by Missing Piece (Dan Galat & Kelly Quesada), November 5, 2023 at the Chicago Ceramics Center.

Prepared violin, cello, and objects (2023)

Complicity with continuous materials

Commissioned by Joe Connor.

Premired by Drew Whiting at TURN UP Online, December 19, 2021.

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For alto saxophone and 4-channel electronics (2019/2020)

Discontinuo

Premiered by James Stone at Center For New Music & Audio Technology, Berkeley, CA, May 1, 2017.

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For keyboard instrument (2014)

Everyday is fiction


Commissioned by Ben Damann.

Appears on "Monopercussion 2" by Milosz Pekala, released November 2021.

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For small percussion and live electronics (2020)

Invention Of Water

Commissioned and premiered by Aviary Duo (Ben Roidl-Ward & Isidora Nojkovic) at Impromptu Fest 2019, Guarneri Hall, Chicago, March 30, 2019.

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For bassoon, cello, conch shell, & gong (2018/2019)

Ipnaop

Finalist for the 2021 ISCM World Music Days, Miami chapter.

Performances by Mabel Kwan (Northwestern University, November 2021), Shi-An Costello (New Music Chicago Presents, December 2022)

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For piano (2017)

Magnificent Maladaptives (trouble with the staying)

Written for Christopher Herz and Nick Photinos' 1:2:1 workshop, premiered online July 26, 2020.

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For violin and fixed media or live electronics (2020)

Outdifference

Premiered by members of the Flubax Trio at the Festivalis Druskomanija, May 25, 2018.

Performed by Brandon Quarles & Joe Connor at Northwestern University, December 4, 2018.

Honorable Mention, Hypotenuse Trio Call For Scores.

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For two wind instruments and live electronics (2017/2018)

Outdifferencing

Written for and premiered by the Quijote Duo (Sixto Franco, Juan Horie) at the Thirsty Ears Festival and Ear Taxi Festival, fall 2021.

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For viola & cello (2020)

QOWOOOPO

Premiered by Wilson Smith at the 2018 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (April 22, 2018, at Northwestern University).

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For cello and objects (2017).
Premiered by Wilson Smith at the 2018 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium.

Refusage

Premiered by Weston Olencki at Northwestern University, May 24, 2018.

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For performer with trombone and objects (2018)

Repersonal Territories (Commonplace Collage No. 2)

Commissioned by SANS; Duo. Premier performance recording by Brian Ellis and Nathan Smith, fall 2022.

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Graphic score for 2 or more wind and stringed instruments (2021)

The luminous point at which logic becomes contemplation

Written for and premiered by Zaira Castillo and Evan Kopca, February 2022.

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For clarinet and piano (2022)

Three Pieces: Unbloom, Aburst, Inbuzz, Rebump

Premiered virtually in April 2021. 

Live peformance by Ben Zucker at New Music At The Green Mill (Chicago, IL), May 2021.

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For vibraphone (2021)

Uigtrui

Premiered by Diego Castro Magas, Brunel University, London, April 13, 2016. Performed by Nate Chivers at the 21st Century Guitar Conference, March 26, 2021.

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For acoustic guitar (2016)

What comes to prickle

Premiered by Mikhail Krutik at the 10th St. Petersburg International Festival of New Music, May 25, 2023.


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For violin or viola (2019)

Where each branch contains what is given to kingdoms

Premiered by Dan Galat and Myra Hinrichs at Strange & Beautiful Things (Chicago, IL) on June 24, 2023.

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For violin duo or viola duo (2022/2023)

Xenoweave (for Peter Garland)

Commissioned and premiered by Daniel Lewis with Ben Zucker at Constellation's Frequency Series, June 25, 2023.

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For equal-tempered and just intonation-tuned vibraphones, or vibraphone and fixed media (2023)

f(ne)ar-sited

Commissioned and premiered by David Moliner at the Berlin Philharmonie, May 2024.

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For marimba solo (with performer vocalizations) (2024)

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