Works
Instrumental Works
Suite for Solo Cello
Suite in five movements:
I. Prelude
II. Recitative
III. Nude Noten
IV. Sarabande
V. Tango
Excerpt of first movement.
Written for Zachary Mowitz.
Video premieres to be released in December 2023, or January 2024
Nudel Noten
Commissioned by ORF, Austrian National Radio for Studio Tirol’s Projekt Pausenfüller
for Solo Violin Duration 1’39”
Duo for Violin and Cello
Awarded 1st Prize Wettbewerb Neue Musik at the Salzburg Mozarteum
I. Fantasy and Rhapsody 9’56”
II. Scherzo 1’45”
III. Molto Cantabile 4’51”
Movie/Video Multi-Media
A Shout Across Time
Commissioned by NASA and the Montana Space Grant Consortium, for the Celebrating Einstein festival and MIT Cambridge Science Fair. A more artsy than NOVA-ish film about 'hearing the universe', black holes, relativity and Albert Einstein.
For orchestra, two sopranos, digital soundtrack and video
Orchestra comprised of undergraduate and graduate students of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.
Duration: 21’38”
Hearing the Universe
Conclusion of A Shout Across Time
Duration: 7’54”
Completely Digital Works
Answering Machine Music
Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. There are no real instruments here, the entire piece was done with Sibelius’s basic MIDI sounds. Overlays and mixing were done with Audacity
Commissioned jointly by the American Music Center and the
Eric and Edith Siday Foundation for their Music on Hold project.
realized on an iMac in home studio Duration: 2’34”
A la Memoire d’un Ami
Awarded 1st prize at the Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges Available on New Albion CD (NA047) A la Memoire d’un Ami and on Spotify link below.
Listen to A la Memoire d’un Ami on Spotify
realized at Princeton University on an IBM 360 Duration: 6’54”
Darkening
Realized at Stanford university’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, CCRMA
Listen to the Darkening on Spotify
Duration: 10’36”
Shimmering
Named number 5 on Billboard’s Century List of 100 recordings
recommended for classical radio stations’ regular music rotation
Available on New Albion CD (NA047) A la Memoire d’un Ami and on Spotify link below.
realized at Stanford university’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, CCRMA
Listen to Shimmering on Spotify
Duration: 16’32”
Lobby Music (concluding section of Jubilum)
United States’ official submission to
League ISCM’s World Music Days
(International Society of Contemporary Music)
concluding section of Jubilum realized at Stanford University’s CCRMA
Duration: 5’06”
Instrumental Works with Digital Soundtracks
Kol Aharon (part 2)
Commissioned by the International Computer Music Association, premiered in Tokyo.
Choreographed by the National Dance Company of Spain for their ballet Child’sPlay
For solo violin and digital soundtrack realized in home studio on a NeXT computer
Cyrus Stevens, Violin
Duration: 6’50”
Shimmerings
Written for the California Ear Unit, a modified Pierrot ensemble:
Alto Flute/Piccolo, Bass Clarinet/Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Glockenspiel.
Performed with a synchronized digital sound track made of parts of my digital work Shimmering.
Performed by eighth blackbird.
Other notable performances:
For orchestra at the Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC and by the Brooklyn Symphony at the Brooklyn Museum “Music Off the Walls”
Duration: 9’11”
Streetscape
a movement from Nursery Rhyme String Quartet
string quartet with digital soundtrack
Kepler String Quartet
I Take Dalej (part 3)
realized at CCRMA
duration: 5’30”
Instrumental Arrangements
Oblivion (excerpt)
An arrangement of the popular Piazzola work,
for string chamber orchestra
Performance at the Benefit Concert Fundraiser for
ACLU of Pennsylvania & Shut Down Berks Coalition
to HELP IMMIGRANT FAMILIES FACING DETENTION AND SEPARATION.
Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, musicians from the. Curtis Institute of Music and the Daedalus String Quartet
Duration: 1’59”
Billy Jean (excerpt)
An arrangement for the piano trio, Trio St. Bernard of the well known Michael Jackson work
Ballets
Child’s Play
Ballet in the repertoire of the National Dance Company of Spain
choreographed to Kol Aharon
Nursery Rhyme
Milwaukee dance troupe Danceworks,
choreographed to movements from
Nursery Rhyme String Quartet