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”

Listen to this work featured on NPR All Things Considered 


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