I take the clangs of NYC construction, sporadic beep beep of horns, whirring of some type of unidentified machine that never seems to stop, then mix in some occasional cabbie shouting expletives, the bass thump thump thump from a car passing in the night, the bar or stadium cheers for a Yankees home run and..., and am surrounded by music!

Selected Recent Compositions

(perusal scores available on request)

Solo Piano

Counting the Seconds (2018)

Solo Flute

Morning Espresso (2020)

Winter Solstice (2015)

Sunrise at Stonehenge (2014)

Solo Flute, with electronics

Treasuring My Trinkets While Purging My Possessions  (2015)

Le Quatre Coins (2012)

Solo Flute, with Actor

Mavericks in Sheol (2013) with text by Nancy Greening, accompanying projections by Robert Morton

Solo Piccolo

Heat 2 Oasis (2014)

Solo Tuba (with Piano accompaniment)

Engine Quest Unit (2018)

Solo Trombone (or Bass Trombone)

Uncle Seabird Again (2018)

Solo Bass Trombone (with Piano accompaniment)

Engine Quest Unit 2 (2020)

Solo Violoncello

L'annee sans fin... (2020)

La Mer, salée comme les larmes! (2019)

La Calme Avant La Tempête (2018)

Murmures Féeriques (2017)

Solo Double Bass, with Actor, Fixed media

The Prisoner’s Return (2015)

Solo Prepared Double Bass, with Actor

Being Allowed to Tell Lies  (2015)

Solo Guitar

2/2 F E B  (graphic score) (2015)

Solo 8-string Brahms Guitar

Les Eaux de Carcassone: L'Aude, Le Canal du Midi, Le Fresquel

Solo Alto Sax, with 2 (French speaking) Actors

Bain de mer en forme de point d’orgue with text by Sylvaine Hinglais (2014)

Solo Cajon, with electronics, and  Actor

Elemental Woman with text by Lynne Procope

Solo Clarinet (processed), with Poet

A Request (2015)

Duet - 2 Violins

Que-ce que je disais? (2015, revised 2017)

Duet - Violin, 'cello

5 Morceaux en Forme du Tango (2016, revised 2017)

Duet - Flute, 'cello, with Dancer

Keeping the Waters Troubled (2018)

Duet - Violin, Trumpet

Perhaps That's the Fault of My Spectacles (2016)

Montparnasse Correspondance (2015)

Duet - Violin, Double Bass, with Narrator

A Statue Erected in My Honor with words from Benjamin Franklin's 1747 essay, The Speech of Miss Polly Baker (2016)

Duet - Violin, Double Bass, & Looper

When You Glow at Dusk on Convent Avenue Near a Breezy River of Gardenias (2020)

Duet - Violin, Bass Trombone, with Narrator

A Statue Erected in My Honor with words from Benjamin Franklin's 1747 essay, The Speech of Miss Polly Baker (2018)

Duet - Trumpet, Trombone

Autumn Leaves (Colors by Crayola): Burnt Umber, Venetian Red, Wintergreen Dream, Mango Tango (2017)

Duet - 2 Actors and electronics

And they say that Art exists as a thing in itself! (2016)

Duet - Viola, Trombone, with Actor

Ruined  (2014)

Duet - Saz and Prepared Double Bass, with Elecronics

Stapled to the Chicken (2014) with Chris Kadis Moscato

Duet - Flute, Double Bass, Fixed media (or live-processed Bass Clarinet)

Czołgi Wojenne (War Tanks) (2011)

Trio - Violin, Trombone, Piano

Puzzle (2018)

Four Names, with fixed media  (2018)

Reflections  (2018)

Trio - Violin, Oboe, Piano

À ma soeur, de mon coeur (2018)

Trio - Clarinet, Alto Sax, Flute

Le tennis (2012)

Trio - 2 Violins, Piano

Stones out Under the Low-limbed Tree (Don’t Roll) - Images by Robert Frost (2015)

Trio - Flute, Trombone, Hand Drum, with Actor

The Giant in the Dirty Coat (2015) with poem by Jesse Glass

Trio - Violin, 'Cello, Tenor Sax, & Actor

Dziady (The Prisoner's Return) (2019) with text by Adam Mickiewicz, translated by Alexandra Newland

Saxophone Quartet (with Triangle)

Summer Soltice at Stonehenge (2018)

Jazz Ensemble (Piano, Bass, Drums, Solo Instrument)

Émigrée (2016)

Jazz Ensemble (Piano, Bass, Drums, Trombone)

The Left Jimmy Choo (2015)

String Quartet

Waiting at the Gallows (2016)

Percussion (Backpack) Quartet

Knot Decay Index (2019)

Flute, Piano, 2 Sopranos, & Actor

The Shopper Counts (2020) with text from 1934 esssay by Bertolt Brecht

Woodwind Quintet

Ethel's Walty (2018)

I Envy Paranoids (They actually think people are paying attention to them.) (2016)

Jazz Ensemble (Piano, Bass, Drums, Trombone, Violin)

3 Generations of Imbeciles (are Enough) (2016)

Quintet - (Piano, Violin, Bass, Alto Sax, Glockenspiel)

Arrangement of Benjamin Franklin's String Quartet (2016)

Sextet - (Piano, Bass, Drums, Trumpet, Alto Sax, Vibraphone)

Looking for the Right Jimmy Choo (2015)

Sextet - (Piano, Guitar, Trombone, Flute, Alto Sax, Drums)

Cinderella Suite to accompany Lotte Reiniger’s Cinderella (1922), adapted by Robert Morton, and text by Nancy

Greening.

Mixed Ensemble (Acoustic)

Was it ever calm?  or only storms and waves in 20-21? (2021)

Film Music (short dance films)

Parallel Lines and Clamber by Amber Jarman-Crainey

Juxtaposition by Amber Tucker.

Songs (for theater)

We are Here, lyrics by Marisa Marquez, music by Ann Warren for the play Ms. Oriental by Marisa Marquez. (2016)