SOLOharp Duration: ca. 12 minutesComposed: 2000 Programme Note: Illuminations was commissioned by Judy Loman through a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and was written especially for concert at the International Harp Congress in Cleveland, June 21, 2000. The piece is divided into… Read More »Illuminations
SOLOpiano Duration: ca. 15 minutes Programme Note: Some objects, either in art or in the physical world, are made up of smaller elements which have come together by accident or design. Tectonics is the study of how the object is constructed. One of the more… Read More »Aural Tectonics: Fragments, Shards, and Jagged Little Pieces
SOLOalto saxophone and digital delay Duration: ca. 5 minutes Premiere: First performance by Jeremy Brown, University Theatre, Calgary, March 19, 1995
ELECTRO-ACOUSTICdigital tape Duration: ca. 10 minutesComposed: 1994 Premiere: First performance Alhambra Theatre, Bradford, England, June 16, 1993 Recording(s): Recorded by Jeremy Brown. Sample:
CHAMBER MUSIC duet1 violin, 1 cello Duration: ca. 7 minutesComposed: 2018 Recording(s): Recorded by Yolanda and Carmen Bruno, 2019 release.
CHAMBER MUSIC cello octet8 cellos Duration: ca. 10 minutesComposed: 2018 Programme Note: What would you do in the face of an enraged, alcohol-fuelled outburst? Lee Krasner, the wife of American painter, Jackson Pollock, had to cope with these events during her 10 years of marriage.… Read More »Coffee Will Be Served In the Living Room
CHAMBER MUSIC string quartet2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello Duration: ca. 12 minutesComposed: 2016 Programme Note: Oblique Light was commissioned by the Penderecki String Quartet for their 2016/17 concert season. It was written to honour Canada’s sesquicentennial year. Canada is geographically huge with a relatively… Read More »Oblique Light
CHAMBER MUSIC quintet1 flute, 1 clarinet, 1 violin, 1 cello, 1 piano Duration: ca. 20 minutes Composed: 2015 Programme Note: “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”… Read More »To Hold Back Chaos, I Transformed Fire and Cloud
CHAMBER MUSIC piano quintet2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 piano Duration: ca. 14 minutesComposed: 2014 Programme Note: In a World of Motion and Distance was commissioned by the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival to celebrate their tenth anniversary in the summer of 2014. It… Read More »In a World of Motion and Distance
CHAMBER MUSIC string octet4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos Duration: ca. 12 minutesComposed: 2013 Programme Note: In 1997, NASA launched the series of Voyager spacecraft. On board were phonograph records known as the Voyager Golden Records, which contain sounds and images that were selected to… Read More »Blues and the Principles of Excitation