Chamber

Written for Joshua Morris

1. Prelude
2. Sonatina
3. Theme and Variations

For Two Clarinets

Written for Jarrett Hoffman

Written for Semble N

My Two Recitatives should be thought of as a set of two rhapsodic solo pieces with accompaniment.

The Four Caprices are meant to be concise pieces of contrasting affects, allowing the clarinet to be colored by a wide range of percussion.

The title Binge came when I realized the timeline of the piece matched thetimeline of a typical over-indulgence: The piece begins with a long period of energetic excess, treating all of the instrum

Much of In Your Absence is in a passionless, meccanico style, asserted with constricted gestures and repeating patterns.

For most of the piece, the strings play a series of ostinati, unsynchronized with the pulse of the rest of the ensemble. The other instruments take turns playing duets accompanied by the strings.

In Three Movements

Commissioned by Tanglewood Music Center
Performed by Ally Smither and Tanglewood Music Center orchestral fellows
Text by Alex Taylor