CHAMBER MUSIC duet 1 Oboe, 1 Piano Duration: ca. 10 minutesComposed: 2022 Programme Note: Chip Hamann invited me to create a new piece for oboe and piano for a recital and recording project featuring a number of Canadian composers. The theme for the project was… Read More »Glacial Ablations
CHAMBER MUSIC duet1 Trombone, 1 Piano (uses E-bow) Duration: ca. 10 minutesComposed: 2022 Programme Note: I.II. On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec suffered an electrical power blackout. What made this different from other blackouts was that it was caused by a solar… Read More »And the Sun Brought Darkness
CHAMBER MUSICviolin, violoncello, piano Duration: ca. 8 minutes Composed: 2006 Programme Note:Memory, Distance, and No Time for Dances was commissioned by Peter Leighton for his latewife, Marilynn Leighton. Marilynn died of cancer on February 21, 2001, almost 32 years to theday after they met. It… Read More »Memory, Distance, and No Time for Dances
CHAMBER MUSIC duet 1 viola, 1 piano Duration: 12′ Composed: 2020 Details to come.
SOLO piano Duration: ca. 10 minutesComposed: 2021 Programme Note: The pandemic has seared many images into our consciousness. For me, one that made a deep impression was during the second wave in India. There were so many deaths from Covid that the funeral pyres, which were burning… Read More »Smoke Darkened Sky
ORCHESTRA WITH SOLOISTSOLO TENOR, 2*2*2*2 4*3*3*1 Timpani (5 drums), 2 Perc, Piano/Celeste, Harp, Strings, [Percussion Requirements: Crash Cymbals Glockenspiel, Snare Drum, 3 Suspended Cymbals (low, medium, high), Large Tam-Tam (beaters + trgl.beater) Bass Drum, Small Triangle Duration: ca. 23 minutesComposed: 2014 Programme Note: The tenor… Read More »Blue on Blue: Unthinkable Distance, Unspeakable Sorrow