Compositions & Arrangements

Selected Original Compositions

  • Our Town Columbus (2019) – Ballet scored for String Quartet; Commissioned by Columbus Dance Theatre; May 2019 World Premiere; Columbus Museum of Art
  • Rocky River Suite (2019) – String Quartet; Commissioned by the Rocky River Chamber Music Society; May 2019 World Premiere; Rocky River, Ohio
  • The Flood (2018) – Chamber Opera with librettist Stephen Wadsworth; Opera based on the Franklinton Flood of 1913; Co-commissioned by Opera Columbus and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus; World Premiere, February 8, 9, 10, 2019; Steven Osgood, Conductor; Stephen Wadsworth, Director
  • Hamlet (2016) – Ballet scored for String Quartet; Commissioned by Columbus Dance Theatre
  • Morpheus Rides (2014) – String Quartet; Commissioned and premiered by Carpe Diem String Quartet at the 2014 Music of Now Marathon: Rapid Ear Movement; Symphony Space, NYC
  • Claudel (2014) – String Quartet with Soprano and Tenor; Commissioned by Columbus Dance Theatre; Nominated for the 2014 Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Award for Artistic Excellence; 2014 World Premiere; Subsequent performances in Columbus, OH 2015
  • Claudel (2014) – Concert Suite for String Quartet
  • Big Bad Dog (2013) – Concerto for Violin and Piano; Commissioned by Elise Winters Huete for publication in Kaleidoscope Method for Violin, Volume 5 – discoverviolin.org
  • The Storyteller (2012) – Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra; Commissioned by Charles Wetherbee. World premiere performance on April 22, 2012 by the National Gallery Orchestra, Chosei Komatsu, guest conductor, and Charles Wetherbee, violin soloist. The performance was part of the “National Gallery of Art Cherry Blossom Music Festival,” featuring Japanese and American performers in honor of the exhibition Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakachū (1716–1800), in concert with other institutions that are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the gift to the nation’s capital of cherry trees from the people of Japan; Subsequent performances in Washington, DC (2014), Nagoya, Japan (2014), and Boulder, CO 2015
  • Courage (2011) – String Quartet, presented in partnership with The Puffin Foundation and the NAACP; Commissioned by Columbus Dance Theatre; Nominated for the 2011 Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Award for Artistic Excellence; Produced again in 2017
  • Courage (2011) – Concert Suite for String Quartet
  • If You Stand Very Still (2010) – SSAA and String Orchestra or String Quartet; Commissioned by the Columbus Children’s Choir and The Chamber Music Connection of Columbus
  • Meditation (2009) – for Violin and Piano
  • Hands (2010) – Dance Score for String Quartet based on the Hand paintings of Tony Rio; Commissioned by Columbus Dance Theatre; Subsequent performances in Nantucket, MA; Washington, DC; Dillon, CO; and Columbus, OH
  • Six Tasty Caprices (2009) – Solo Violin; Commissioned by Charles Wetherbee; Performed throughout the United States
  • Jig for the Kids (2009) – String Trio
  • Fiddle Suite: Montana (2008 -2009); Commissioned by the Carpe Diem String Quartet; Partial premiere in May 2008; World Premiere of complete suite May 2009; Performed 50-100 times annually since 2009
  • Entangled Banks (2008); Commissioned by The Entomology Department of The Ohio State University for the symposium Intersection of Faith and Evolution: Defining Science and Religion; Premiered Oct 22, 2008 by the Carpe Diem String Quartet; Subsequent performances in Los Angeles, CA; Dillon, CO; and Columbus, OH


Selected Arrangements

  • Stardust, Hoagie Carmichael, for string quartet
  • Sakura, Japanese traditional folk song, for string quartet
  • Take Five, Paul Desmond, for String Quartet
  • Blue Rondo a la Turk, Dave Brubeck, for String Quartet
  • My Life, Billy Joel, for string quartet
  • As Time Goes By, Herman Hupfield, for solo violin
  • Theme from The Simpsons, Danny Elfman, for string quartet
  • Ashokan Farewell, Jay Ungar, for string quartet
  • Stardust, Hogey Carmichael, duo for violin and viola
  • Stardust, Hogey Carmichael, for string quartet
  • Czardas, Vittorio Monti, duo for violin and viola, string quartet
  • Tango Tzigane, David Rubinoff, duo for violin and viola
  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Spiritual, for string quartet
  • Remembrances, John Williams, for string quartet
  • Montana, Charles Cohan and Joseph E. Howard, for string quartet