Year composed: 2014Duration: 4’30”Instrumentation: keyboard sampler Premiere “Mallets” at the Leo Brouwer Festival of Music, Havana, Cuba Notes: Several years ago I began working with a database of piano recordings of the beautiful grand in UC Berkeley’s Hertz Hall. Four tones (C, E-flat, F-sharp, and A) in every octave were carefully sampled using multiple playing…

Year composed: 2025Duration: 9′Instrumentation: cello and piano Commissioned by the No Exit Ensemble for The Collective Premiered in June 2025 at the American College of Greece, Athens, the Morlacci Conservatory in Perugia, Italy, the Akademii Muzycznej in Warsaw, Poland, and the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam, Netherlands Perusal score Notes: In summer 2024 I spent a week…

Year composed: 2021Duration: 3′Instrumentation: solo violin Commissioned by Dan FlanaganPremiered at the National Opera Center, New York City 10/3/2022Performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, New York City, 3/25/24 Interview with Dan Flanagan for Vents Magazine (November 1, 2023) Notes: Into the Light was commissioned by Daniel Flanagan, as part of a series inspired by…

Year composed: 2021Duration: 7′Instrumentation: string trio (violin, viola, cello) Commissioned by the No Exit Ensemble for The Collective and premiered at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, 5/12/2022 Notes: Blackwork and Scarletwork were types of embroidery common in the Renaissance, especially in Spain.  They were used to decorate fine clothing with counted black or red thread…

Year composed: 2023Duration: 7′Instrumentation: solo piano Commissioned by Jared Redmond and premiered at Hertz Hall, Berkeley 2/14/24 Notes: The term “implicate order” was coined by physicist David Bohm in the early 1980s to describe underlying and unifying forces in the universe. Bohm saw subatomic particles not as essential building blocks but as elements derived from…

Year composed: 2024Duration: 8’30”Instrumentation: string trio (violin, viola, cello) Commissioned by Dan Flanagan and the Solano Trio, with funding from InterMusicSF what music the stops allow was premiered at the Piedmont Center for the Arts inNovember 2024. Notes: what music the stops allow is inspired by a textural painting by John Campion  –Cindy Cox back…

Year composed: 1988, rev. 1993Duration: 10′Instrumentation: flute or violin, clarinet or soprano sax, piano Notes: Premiered by Tridib Pal, Susan McGinn, and Cindy Cox, Indiana Univ., 1990Performed by the Verdehr Trio, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, 1993 back to full catalog

Year composed: 1989Duration: 14′Instrumentation: percussion and piano Commissioned by Kay Stonefelt and premiered at Indiana University, February 1990. Notes: [Four Studies of Light and Dark] is actually a six movement work, with the first and last movements, I and VI, forming an outer frame. The structure is organized symmetrically, with II and V illustrating light…

Year composed: 1989Duration: 10′Instrumentation: trumpet, trombone, piano Commissioned by Andrew Glendening Notes: The Coriolis effect is the physical deflection of wind (or any free-moving object) to the right of its path in motion in the northern hemisphere, and to the left in the southern hemisphere. The deviation is caused by the earth’s rotation, and is…

after Hildegard von Bingen Year composed: 1997, rev. 2002Duration: 21′Instrumentation: string quartet Commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, premiered by the Kronos Quartet, and reorded by the Alexander Quartet on the Columba aspexit album (Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc.) Notes: Columba aspexit is based upon a chant by Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century…