Karim Al-Zand: CATALOG

compositions are listed reverse chronologically within category
score/audio excerpts are on individual pages—a few complete scores/recordings are here

ALL

ORCHESTRA & LARGE ENSEMBLE:

The Leader (2020)

chamber opera for voices (2 baritones, tenor, mezzo-soprano, soprano) & large ensemble: flute*, clarinet*, cornet, trombone, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, percussion (1 player)
chamber opera in one act
35 minutes

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001/2018)

for narrator, orchestra: winds: 2*2*2*2*; brass: 4210; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & orchestra
24 minutes

The Prisoner (2017)

for bass voice solo, orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4431; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
28 minutes

Ring the Bells at Break of Day (2016)

for orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4331; 2 harps; piano/celeste; timpani, 5 percussion; strings
6 minutes

Luctus Profugis (2016)

for string orchestra
elegy for the displaced
6 minutes

Cinderella (2014)

for flute, clarinet, cornet (trumpet), trombone, string quartet & percussion
music for the 1922 silent silhouette film by Lotte Reiniger
13 minutes

G. F. Handel’s Messiah: The Pre-Game Show (2011)

for actor; SATB chorus; tenor solo, baritone solo; orchestra: 2 oboes, 2 bassoon; 2 trumpets, timpani, harpsichord; strings
presentation for young audiences
45 minutes

Visions from Another World (2008)

for orchestra: winds: 2*22*2; brass: 2110; harp; harpsichord; timpani, 3 percussion; strings (also version for sinfonietta)
after illustrations by J. J. Grandville
13 minutes

City Scenes (2006)

for orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4331; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 3 percussion; strings
three urban dances for orchestra
11 minutes

Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006)

for string orchestra
after etchings of Francisco de Goya
10 minutes

Concertino for Trumpet (2004)

for trumpet & chamber orchestra: trumpet (C), flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, contrabass, 2 percussion
15 minutes

The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad (2003)

for orchestra: winds: piccolo, 2222, soprano sax, contrabssoon; brass: 4221; harp; timpani, 3 percussion; strings
tone poem for orchestra
14 minutes

CHAMBER:

Strange Machines (String Quartet No. 4) (2022)

for 2 violins, viola & cello
three musical automata
12 minutes

Lines in Motion (2022)

for piano trio
three pieces after kinetic illustrations by Quillivic, Masereel & Esherick
10 minutes

Ignoble Dances (2020)

for flute & piano
seven dances in the year 2020
16 minutes

Six Bagatelles (2018)

for violin, cello & piano
10 minutes

Songs from the Post-Truth Era (2018)

for soprano & bassoon
6 minutes

Stomping Grounds (2015)

for clarinet, violin & piano
15 minutes

Tarantella (2015)

for piano
maniacal dance
5 minutes

Studies in Nature (2014)

for harp, flute & viola
after nature illustrations by Ernst Haeckel
12 minutes

Canticle and Caprice (2014)

for violin, viola, & cello
short concert work for string trio
7 minutes

Fantasy on Bulgarian Rhythms (2013)

for string quartet
inspired by folk dance rhythms of Bulgaria
7 minutes

Paganini Reverie (2013)

for piano
short fantasy for piano on the famous 24th caprice
5 minutes

Hollows and Dells (2013)

for viola & piano
concert work in three reminiscences
12 minutes

El Martillo (2013)

for 3 pairs of bongos
fantasy on an Afro-Cuban rhythm
3 minutes

Thirteen Tanka (2013)

for baritone, oboe, viola & cello
song cycle on Japanese tanka poetry
9 minutes

Duo (2012)

for flute & cello
concert work in three movements
12 minutes

Ronde Fantastique (2012)

for 10 instruments
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
4 minutes

The Spinning Ballerina (2011)

for 15 instruments
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
6 minutes

BeatBox (2010)

for clarinet, trumpet, double bass, piano & percussion
divertissement for young audiences
5 minutes

Quelques Fleurs (2010)

for clarinet, cello & piano
perfumed suite in four movements
12 minutes

Swimmy (2010)

for narrator, clarinet, piano, violin & cello
based on the children’s picture book by Leo Lionni
5 minutes

Cabinet of Curiosities (2009)

for clarinet & piano
concert work in five diverse miniatures
15 minutes

Pattern Preludes (books 1—4) (2005, 2009, 2009, 2015)

for piano
24 short figural preludes for piano (may be played individually)
38 minutes: book 1 (11 minutes), book 2 (8 minutes), book 3 (8 minutes), book 4 (11 minutes)

The Art of Conversation (String Quartet No. 3) (2007)

for 2 violins, viola & cello
seven dialogues for string quartet
12 minutes

Lingering (2007)

for piano, violin & cello
ringtone
23 seconds

Tableau and Details (2006)

for cello & piano
concert work in one scene and four details
15 minutes

Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006)

for string sextet (also transcribed for string orchestra)
after etchings of Francisco de Goya
10 minutes

Three Character Pieces (2006)

for bassoon & viola
short concert work in three movements
7 minutes

Imaginary Scenes (2005)

for violin & piano
concert work in four fantasies
17 minutes

Fanfares (2005–)

for 6 trumpets
three fanfares for trumpet ensemble
3; 2; 2 minutes

The Waiting Game (2005)

for flute (/piccolo), clarinet (/bass clarinet), violin, cello, harp & percussion
choreographic scene for dance
10 minutes

Red Pajamas (2005)

for flute (piccolo), clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
variations on a folk tune [a work for young audiences]
8 minutes

Tagore Love Songs (2004)

for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
22 minutes

The Secret Of Your Heart (2004)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

The Sky With All Its Stars (2004)

for baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

Music Box Prelude (2004)

for piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello & piano (or harp), percussion
humorous intermezzo
3 minutes

Four Fables (2003)

for flute, clarinet & piano
based on fables from near and far
11 minutes

Capriccios (2002–2017)

for violin
six capriccios for solo violin (may be played individually)
12 minutes (2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2 minutes)

Variations (2002)

for viola & piano
on a theme by Bartok
7 minutes

String Quartet No. 2 ‘Etudes’ (2002)

for string quartet
11 minutes

Leila (2001)

for baritone & guitar, with optional string quartet
song cycle
11 minutes

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001)

for narrator, flute (/piccolo /alto flute), clarinet (/bass clarinet), violin, cello, piano & percussion
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & ensemble
24 minutes

Duet (1998)

for harp & viola
romance in four movements
11 minutes

Winter Scenes (1997)

for mezzo-soprano, harp, flute (/alto flute) & viola
four songs on poetry of D. G. Jones
13 minutes

VOCAL & CHORAL:

Vespertine Songs (2023)

for baritone & piano
four songs of the night
11 minutes

Four Not So Serious Songs (2023)

for baritone & piano
comic songs with texts by Robert Graves
9 minutes

Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly (2023)

for soprano & piano
variations on a text by Erasmus
7 minutes

Unsentimental Love Songs (2023)

assorted songs for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
songs on the quotidian side of love
7 minutes

Two Songs from The Prisoner (2017)

for baritone & piano
on the life and death of Adnan Latif
8 minutes

Two Songs (2021)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
songs on poetry of Reg Huston
4 minutes

The Leader (2020)

Die Mistel [Mistletoe] (2019)

for baritone, piano quartet & vibraphone
5 minutes

Songs from the Post-Truth Era (2018)

for soprano & bassoon
6 minutes

Thirteen Tanka (2013)

for baritone, oboe, viola & cello
song cycle on Japanese tanka poetry
9 minutes

Orange Torches Against the Rain (2012)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle of flowers and rain after poems by Amy Lowell
12 minutes

Tagore Love Songs (2004)

for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
22 minutes

The Secret Of Your Heart (2004)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

The Sky With All Its Stars (2004)

for baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

Leila (2001)

for baritone & guitar, with optional string quartet
song cycle on Arabic poems of unrequited love by Majnun Leila
11 minutes

A Measure In Trance (2000)

for choir acapella SSAATTBB
six songs for choir on poetry of Al-Mutazz
8 minutes

Winter Scenes (1997)

mezzo-soprano, harp, flute (/alto flute) & viola
four songs on poetry of D. G. Jones
13 minutes

SOLO & DUO:

Let Down the Scale of Music from the Sky (2022)

for solo organ
fantasy on a ground of Purcell
12 minutes

Loop Studies (2021)

for violin & loop pedal
13 minutes

Two Songs (2021)

for mezzo-soprano, & piano
songs on poetry of Reg Huston
4 minutes

Ignoble Dances (2020)

for flute & piano
seven dances in the year 2020
16 minutes

Toccata (2020)

for solo organ
5 minutes

Songs from the Post-Truth Era (2018)

for soprano & bassoon
6 minutes

Tarantella (2015)

for piano
maniacal dance
5 minutes

Paganini Reverie (2013)

for piano
short fantasy for piano on the famous 24th caprice
5 minutes

Duo (2012)

for flute & cello
concert work in three movements
12 minutes

Hollows and Dells (2013)

for viola & piano
concert work in three reminiscences
12 minutes

Cabinet of Curiosities (2009)

for clarinet & piano
concert work in five diverse miniatures
15 minutes

Pattern Preludes (books 1–4) (2005, 2009, 2009, 2015)

for piano
24 short figural preludes for piano (may be played individually)
38 minutes: book 1 (11 minutes), book 2 (8 minutes), book 3 (8 minutes), book 4 (11 minutes)

Tableau and Details (2006)

for cello & piano
concert work in one scene and four details
15 minutes

Three Character Pieces (2006)

for bassoon & viola
short concert work in three movements
7 minutes

Imaginary Scenes (2005)

for violin & piano
concert work in four fantasies
17 minutes

Capriccios (2002–2017)

for violin
six capriccios (may be played individually)
12 minutes (2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2 minutes)

Variations (2002)

for viola & piano
on a theme of Bartok
7 minutes

Duet (1998)

for harp & viola
romance in four movements
11 minutes

CHAMBER

Strange Machines (String Quartet No. 4) (2022)

for 2 violins, viola & cello
three musical automata
12 minutes

Lines in Motion (2022)

for piano trio
three pieces after kinetic illustrations by Quillivic, Masereel & Esherick
10 minutes

Ignoble Dances (2020)

for flute & piano
seven dances in the year 2020
16 minutes

Die Mistel [Mistletoe] (2019)

for baritone, piano quartet & vibraphone
5 minutes

Six Bagatelles (2018)

for violin, cello & piano
10 minutes

Songs from the Post-Truth Era (2018)

for soprano & bassoon
6 minutes

Stomping Grounds (2015)

for clarinet, violin & piano
15 minutes

Tarantella (2015)

for piano
maniacal dance
5 minutes

Studies in Nature (2014)

for harp, flute & viola
after nature illustrations by Ernst Haeckel
12 minutes

Cinderella (2014)

for flute, clarinet, cornet (trumpet), trombone, string quartet & percussion
music for the 1922 silent silhouette film by Lotte Reiniger
13 minutes

Canticle and Caprice (2014)

for violin, viola, & cello
short concert work for string trio
7 minutes

Fantasy on Bulgarian Rhythms (2013)

for string quartet
inspired by folk dance rhythms of Bulgaria
7 minutes

Paganini Reverie (2013)

for piano
short fantasy for piano on the famous 24th caprice
5 minutes

Hollows and Dells (2013)

for viola & piano
concert work in three reminiscences
12 minutes

El Martillo (2013)

for 3 pairs of bongos
fantasy on an Afro-Cuban rhythm
3 minutes

Thirteen Tanka (2013)

for baritone, oboe, viola & cello
song cycle on Japanese tanka poetry
9 minutes

Duo (2012)

for flute & cello
concert work in three movements
12 minutes

Ronde Fantastique (2012)

for 10 instruments
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
4 minutes

The Spinning Ballerina (2011)

for 15 instruments
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
6 minutes

BeatBox (2010)

for clarinet, trumpet, double bass, piano & percussion
divertissement for young audiences
5 minutes

Quelques Fleurs (2010)

for clarinet, cello & piano
perfumed suite in four movements
12 minutes

Swimmy (2010)

for narrator, clarinet, piano, violin & cello
based on the children’s picture book by Leo Lionni
5 minutes

Cabinet of Curiosities (2009)

for clarinet & piano
concert work in five diverse miniatures
15 minutes

Pattern Preludes (books 1—4) (2005, 2009, 2009, 2015)

for piano
24 figural preludes for piano (may be played individually)
38 minutes: book 1 (11 minutes), book 2 (8 minutes), book 3 (8 minutes), book 4 (11 minutes)

The Art of Conversation (String Quartet No. 3) (2007)

for 2 violins, viola & cello
seven dialogues for string quartet
12 minutes

Lingering (2007)

for piano, violin & cello
ringtone
23 seconds

Tableau and Details (2006)

for cello & piano
concert work in one scene and four details
15 minutes

Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006)

for string sextet (also transcribed for string orchestra)
after etchings of Francisco de Goya
10 minutes

Three Character Pieces (2006)

for bassoon & viola
short concert work in three movements
7 minutes

Imaginary Scenes (2005)

for violin & piano
concert work in four fantasies
17 minutes

Fanfares (2005–)

for 6 trumpets
three fanfares for trumpet ensemble
3; 2; 2 minutes

The Waiting Game (2005)

for flute (/piccolo), clarinet (/bass clarinet), violin, cello, harp & percussion
choreographic scene for dance
10 minutes

Red Pajamas (2005)

for flute (piccolo), clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
variations on a folk tune [a work for young audiences]
8 minutes

Tagore Love Songs (2004)

for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
22 minutes

The Secret Of Your Heart (2004)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

The Sky With All Its Stars (2004)

for baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

Music Box Prelude (2004)

for piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello & piano (or harp), percussion
humorous intermezzo
3 minutes

Four Fables (2003)

for flute, clarinet & piano
based on fables from near and far
11 minutes

Capriccios (2002–2017)

for violin
six capriccios for solo violin (may be played individually)
12 minutes (2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2 minutes)

Variations (2002)

for viola & piano
on a theme by Bartok
7 minutes

String Quartet No. 2 ‘Etudes’ (2002)

for string quartet
four studies for string quartet
11 minutes

Leila (2001)

for baritone & guitar, with optional string quartet
song cycle on Arabic poems of unrequited love
11 minutes

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001)

for narrator, flute (/piccolo /alto flute), clarinet (/bass clarinet), violin,cello, piano & percussion
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & ensemble
24 minutes

Duet (1998)

for harp & viola
romance in four movements
11 minutes

Winter Scenes (1997)

for mezzo-soprano, harp, flute (/alto flute) & viola
four songs on poetry of D. G. Jones
13 minutes

ORCHESTRA

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001/2018)

for narrator, orchestra: winds: 2*2*2*2*; brass: 4210; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & orchestra
24 minutes

The Prisoner (2017)

for bass voice solo, orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4431; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
28 minutes

Ring the Bells at Break of Day (2016)

for orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4331; 2 harps; piano/celeste; timpani, 5 percussion; strings
6 minutes

Luctus Profugis (2016)

for string orchestra
elegy for the displaced
6 minutes

G. F. Handel’s Messiah: The Pre-Game Show (2011)

for actor; SATB chorus; tenor solo, baritone solo; orchestra: 2 oboes, 2 bassoon; 2 trumpets, timpani, harpsichord; strings
presentation for young audiences
45 minutes

Visions from Another World (2008)

for orchestra: winds: 2*22*2; brass: 2110; harp; harpsichord; timpani, 3 percussion; strings (also version for sinfonietta)
after illustrations by J. J. Grandville
13 minutes

City Scenes (2006)

for orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3* ; brass: 4331; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 3 percussion; strings
three urban dances for orchestra
11 minutes

Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006)

for string orchestra
after etchings of Francisco de Goya
10 minutes

Concertino for Trumpet (2004)

for trumpet & chamber orchestra: trumpet (C), flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, contrabass, 2 percussion
15 minutes

The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad (2003)

for orchestra: winds: piccolo, 2222, soprano sax, contrabssoon; brass: 4221; harp; timpani, 3 percussion; strings
tone poem for orchestra
14 minutes

LARGE ENSEMBLE

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001/2018)

for narrator, flute*, clarinet*, violin, cello, piano, percussion
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & ensemble
24 minutes

The Prisoner (2017)

for bass voice solo, sinfonietta: 1*1*1*1* 1111 harp, piano/celeste, percussion, strings (1|1|1|1|1)
28 minutes

Luctus Profugis (2016)

for string orchestra (minimum 4|4|3|3|2)
elegy for the displaced
6 minutes

Cinderella (2014)

for flute, clarinet, cornet (trumpet), trombone, string quartet & percussion
music for the 1922 silent silhouette film by Lotte Reiniger
13 minutes

Ronde Fantastique (2012)

for 10 instruments: flute*, clarinet*, trumpet, trombone. string quartet, double bass, percussion; piano
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
4 minutes

The Spinning Ballerina (2011)

for 16 instruments: flute*, clarinet*, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, harp, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
6 minutes

G. F. Handel’s Messiah: The Pre-Game Show (2011)

for actor; SATB chorus; tenor solo, baritone solo; orchestra: 2 oboes, 2 bassoon; 2 trumpets, timpani, harpsichord; strings
presentation for young audiences
45 minutes

Visions from Another World (2008)

for sinfonietta: flute*, clarinet*, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, harp, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass
after illustrations by J. J. Grandville
13 minutes

Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006)

for string orchestra (minimum 5|5|4|3|1)
after etchings of Francisco de Goya
10 minutes

Concertino for Trumpet (2004)

for trumpet & chamber orchestra: trumpet (C), flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, contrabass, 2 percussion
15 minutes

OPERA/THEATRE/FILM

The Leader (2020)

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001/2018)

for narrator, orchestra: winds: 2*2*2*2*; brass: 4210; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & orchestra
24 minutes

Swimmy (2010)

for narrator, clarinet, piano, violin & cello
based on the children’s picture book by Leo Lionni
5 minutes

Cinderella (2014)

for flute, clarinet, cornet (trumpet), trombone, string quartet & percussion
music for the 1922 silent silhouette film by Lotte Reiniger
13 minutes

Red Pajamas (2005)

for flute (piccolo), clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
variations on a folk tune [a work for young audiences]
8 minutes

VOCAL/CHORAL

Songs for voice and piano are listed here collectively as cycles/sets. Individual songs can be found under SONGS.

Vespertine Songs (2023)

for baritone & piano
four songs of the night
11 minutes

Four Not So Serious Songs (2023)

for baritone & piano
comic songs with texts by Robert Graves
9 minutes

Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly (2023)

for soprano & piano
variations on a text by Erasmus
7 minutes

Unsentimental Love Songs (2023)

assorted songs for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
songs on the quotidian side of love
7 minutes

Two Songs (2021)

for mezzo-soprano, & piano
songs on poetry of Reg Huston
4 minutes

Two Songs from The Prisoner (2017)

for baritone & piano
on the life and death of Adnan Latif
8 minutes

The Leader (2020)

Die Mistel [Mistletoe] (2019)

for baritone, piano quartet & vibraphone
5 minutes

Songs from the Post-Truth Era (2018)

for soprano & bassoon
6 minutes

Thirteen Tanka (2013)

for baritone, oboe, viola & cello
song cycle on Japanese tanka poetry
9 minutes

Orange Torches Against the Rain (2012)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle of flowers and rain after poems by Amy Lowell
12 minutes

Tagore Love Songs (2004)

for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
22 minutes

The Secret Of Your Heart (2004)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

The Sky With All Its Stars (2004)

for baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

Leila (2001)

for baritone & guitar, with optional string quartet
song cycle
11 minutes

A Measure In Trance (2000)

for choir acapella SSAATTBB
six songs for choir on poetry of Al-Mutazz
8 minutes

Winter Scenes (1997)

mezzo-soprano, harp, flute (/alto flute) & viola
four songs on poetry of D. G. Jones
13 minutes

SOLO/DUO

Let Down the Scale of Music from the Sky (2022)

for solo organ
fantasy on a ground of Purcell
12 minutes

Loop Studies (2021)

for violin & loop pedal
13 minutes

Ignoble Dances (2020)

for flute & piano
seven dances in the year 2020
16 minutes

Toccata (2020)

for solo organ
5 minutes

Songs from the Post-Truth Era (2018)

for soprano & bassoon
6 minutes

Tarantella (2015)

for piano
maniacal dance
5 minutes

Paganini Reverie (2013)

for piano
short fantasy for piano on the famous 24th caprice
5 minutes

Hollows and Dells (2013)

for viola & piano
concert work in three reminiscences
12 minutes

Duo (2012)

for flute & cello
concert work in three movements
12 minutes

Cabinet of Curiosities (2009)

for clarinet & piano
concert work in five diverse miniatures
15 minutes

Pattern Preludes (books 1–4) (2005, 2009, 2009, 2015)

for piano
24 short figural preludes for piano (may be played individually)
38 minutes: book 1 (11 minutes), book 2 (8 minutes), book 3 (8 minutes), book 4 (11 minutes)

Tableau and Details (2006)

for cello & piano
concert work in one scene and four details
15 minutes

Three Character Pieces (2006)

for bassoon & viola
short concert work in three movements
7 minutes

Imaginary Scenes (2005)

for violin & piano
concert work in four fantasies
17 minutes

Capriccios (2002–)

for violin
six capriccios (may be played individually)
12 minutes (2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2 minutes)

Variations (2002)

for viola & piano
on a theme of Bartok
7 minutes

Duet (1998)

for harp & viola
romance in four movements
11 minutes

PIANO

Paganini Reverie (2013)

for piano
short fantasy for piano on the famous 24th caprice
5 minutes

Pattern Preludes (books 1—4) (2005, 2009, 2009, 2015)

for piano
24 short figural preludes for piano (may be played individually)
38 minutes: book 1 (11 minutes), book 2 (8 minutes), book 3 (8 minutes), book 4 (11 minutes)

ORGAN

Let Down the Scale of Music from the Sky (2022)

for solo organ
fantasy on a ground of Purcell
12 minutes

Toccata (2020)

for solo organ
5 minutes

SONGS

Songs for voice and piano may be performed singly or in sets. Here they are listed alphabetically by title showing original voice part, voice type (High|Medium|Low, including alternate transpositions where available), vocal range, duration, text author, song set and premiere performers. A list of full song cycles/sets (including those with ensemble accompaniment) can be found under VOCAL/CHORAL.

SCORE 𝄞

That sputter of rain, flipping the 
hedge-rows
And making the highways hiss,
How I love it!
And the touch of you upon my arm
As you press against me that my 
umbrella
May cover you.

Tinkle of drops on stretched silk.
Wet murmur though green branches.

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄞

Yesterday afternoon I heard a tune 
at my favorite café, as clear as day, 
and then again in the car—I think it was NPR…
And to my dismay it cut through the fray. 
Its haunting melody filled me with jealousy, and made me say: 

Now that’s a song I wish I’d written! 
Its turns of phrase ring honest and true. 
It’s really my cup of tea. 
A mystery to me just how it came to be. 
Though I try, it’s more than I could manage to do.

Now that’s a song I wish I’d written! 
It’s bright and bold and tasteful and taut. 
It ought to be penned by me. 
Though were it to be (theoretically)
I confess, I’d like it less, as often as not. 

Those harmonies so sweet and new—
and what a clever bridge, too! 
Just when it may flit into cliché it 
surprises you. 
I smile while I hear it, then shrink and think: 

Now that’s a song I wish I’d written! 
Its rhymes and tone so unaffected: logical yet unexpected. 
I wish I had done it myself. 
The song is divine. I wish it were mine. 
But I’ll keep it up there on the shelf. 
More envious than I’d admit; I wish I’d written it. 

For I can’t stand to listen to a song I wish I’d written.

—Karim Al-Zand

SCORE 𝄢

Father is quite the greatest poet
  That ever lived anywhere.
You say you’re going to write great 
music—
  I chose that first: it’s unfair.
Besides, now I can’t be the greatest 
painter and
  do Christ and angels, or lovely pears
  and apples and grapes on a green dish,
  or storms at sea, or anything lovely,
Because that’s been taken by Claire.

It’s stupid to be an engine-driver,
  And soldiers are horrible men.
I won’t be a tailor, I won’t be a sailor,
  And gardener’s taken by Ben.
It’s unfair if you say that you’ll write great
  music, you horrid, you unkind (I simply 
  loathe you, though you are my
  sister), you beast, cad, coward, cheat,
  bully, liar!
Well? Say what’s left for me then!

But we won’t go to your ugly music.
  (Listen!) Ben will garden and dig,
And Claire will finish her wondrous 
pictures
  All flaming and splendid and big.
And I’ll be a perfectly marvelous 
carpenter,
  and I’ll make cupboards and benches
  and tables and... and baths, and
  nice wooden boxes for studs and 
money,
And you’ll be jealous, you pig!

—Robert Graves

SCORE 𝄢

Do not go, my love, without asking my 
leave.
  I have watched all night, and now 
my eyes are heavy with sleep.
  I fear lest I lose you when I am 
sleeping.
  Do not go, my love, without asking 
my leave.

  I start up and stretch my hands to 
touch you. I ask myself, “Is it a dream?”
  Could I but entangle your feet with 
my heart and hold them fast to my 
breast!
  Do not go, my love, without asking 
my leave.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄞

Do not keep to yourself the secret of 
your heart, my friend!
  Say it to me, only to me, in secret.
  You who smile so gently, softly whisper, 
my heart will hear it, not my ears.

  The night is deep, the house is silent, 
the birds’ nests are shrouded with sleep.
  Speak to me through hesitating tears, 
through faltering smiles,
through sweet shame and pain, the 
secret of your heart!

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄞

Your footfalls on the drum bridge beside 
  my house  
Are like the pattering drops of a passing 
  shower,  
So soon are they gone. 

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄞

On the bay, it chokes; canyon crawling, 
  it intrigues, envelopes and tricks; 
it conceals, then, reveals, then, 
  conceals, again.

For an instant
(and only an instant), I see; I see a wink 
  of sky, 
a dash of clarity.

I see what I think might be
as I am inside the cloud now.
I do hear the sea, so I know it is there.
It’s my sea with the waves crashing 
  around me.

—Reg Huston

SCORE 𝄞

Why do the lilies goggle their tongues 
  at me
When I pluck them;
And writhe, and twist,
And strangle themselves against my 
  fingers,
So that I can hardly weave the garland
For your hair?
Why do they shriek your name
And spit at me
When I would cluster them?
Must I kill them
To make them lie still,
And send you a wreath of lolling corpses
To turn putrid and soft
On your forehead
While you dance?

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄞

He whispered, “My love, raise your eyes.”
  I sharply chided him, and said “Go!”; 
but he did not stir.
  He stood before me and held both 
my hands. I said, “Leave me!”;
but he did not go.

 He brought his face near my ear. I 
glanced at him and said,
“What a shame!”; but he did not move.
  His lips touched my cheek. I trembled 
and said, “You dare too much”; but 
he had no shame.

  He put a flower in my hair. I said, “It 
is useless!”; but he stood unmoved.
  He took the garland from my neck and 
went away. I weep and ask my heart, 
“Why does he not come back?”

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄢

If you would have it so, I will end my 
singing.
  If it sets your heart aflutter, I will take 
away my eyes from your face.
  If it suddenly startles you in your walk, 
I will step aside and take another path.
  If it confuses you in your flower-weaving, 
I will shun your lonely garden.
  If it makes the water wanton and wild, 
I will not row my boat by your bank.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄢

One more brightened window 
Where no one sleeps tonight:  
Maybe they’re drinking wine, 
Or maybe just sitting.
Perhaps two lover’s hands
Cling, hesitant to part.
In every house, my friend,
There’s a window like that
Keeping darkness at bay
From restive, sleepless eyes.
Bright nighttime window, you
Frame greetings and farewells!
Maybe the lights fluoresce
Or maybe a lamp glows.
But this is how it starts…
My mind wants peace, my friend.
Gaze on my sleepless house—
my window gleams tonight.

—Marina Tsvetaeva

SCORE 𝄞

In the wee hours, when it is so quiet, 
the only sound is the twinkling of distant 
  stars,
I see you.
Light years away and, yet,
I see you.
I see you as I have always seen you:
bright, dazzling, brilliant; unreachable 
  but so comforting.

—Reg Huston

SCORE 𝄞

I shall forget you presently, my dear,
So make the most of this, your little day,
Your little month, your little half a year,
Ere I forget, or die, or move away,
And we are done forever; by and by
I shall forget you, as I said, but now,
If you entreat me with your loveliest lie
I will protest you with my favorite vow.
I would indeed that love were 
  longer-lived,
And vows were not so brittle as they are,
But so it is, and nature has contrived
To struggle on without a break thus far,
Whether or not we find what we 
  are seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.

—Edn St. Vincent Millay

SCORE 𝄢

t was in May. 
The sultry noon seemed endlessly long. 
The dry earth gaped with thirst in 
the heat.
  When I heard from the riverside a voice 
calling, “Come, my darling!”
  I shut my book and opened the window 
to look out.
  I saw a big buffalo with mud-stained 
hide, standing near the river with placid, 
patient eyes; and a youth, knee deep in
water, calling it to its bath.
  I smiled amused and felt a touch of 
sweetness in my heart.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄢

I would ask for still more, 
if I had the sky with all its stars, 
and the world with its endless riches; 
but I would be content with the smallest 
corner of this earth if only she were mine.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄢

It’s so long since I spent the night 
  with you.
My friends! You know how we were 
  torn apart.
Love of my soul, where will we 
  meet again?
Noon Sun! I need your brightness 
  in my heart.
Hey! Full Moon! Blinding light that stuns 
  all men!
So long deserted, I want none but you.
You were my Morning Breeze, who 
  brought good news. 
Seduce me now. Save me with love 
  once more.
On that strange and fateful night
you will hear a familiar voice.
The euphoria of love will sweep over 
  your grave;
it will bring wine and friends, 
  candles and food.

—Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

SCORE 𝄞

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, 
has found its sky in your eyes.
  They are the cradle of the morning, 
they are the kingdom of the stars.
  My songs are lost in their depths.
  Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely 
immensity.
  Let me but cleave its clouds 
and spread wings in its sunshine.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄞

My songs are like bees; 
they follow through the air some fragrant
trace—some memory—of you, to hum 
  around your shyness, 
eager for its hidden store.

When the freshness of dawn droops in 
  the sun, 
when in the noon the air hangs low with 
  heaviness 
and the forest is silent, my songs return 
  home,
their languid wings dusted with gold.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄢

Sounds, pure sounds—
Nothing—
Vibrancies of the air
And yet—

This summer night
There are crickets shrilling
Beyond the deep bassoon of frogs.
They cease for a moment
As the rattling clangor
Of the trolley
Bumps by.
I hear footsteps
Hollow on the pavement
Now deserted
And blank of sound.
They die.
The crickets now are sleeping;
Even the leaves grow still.

And slowly
Out of the blankness, out of the silence,
Emerges on soundless wings
The long sweet-sloping
Rise and fall of far viol notes,—
The mad Nirvana,
The faint and spectral
Dream-music
Of my heart’s desire.

—Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)

SCORE 𝄞

O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go
For many a choir is singing now
Where Love did sometime go.
And hear you not the thrushes calling,
Calling us away?
O cool and pleasant is the valley
And there, love, will we stay.

—James Joyce

SCORE 𝄢

The water of the fountain ran, 
the swift river ran, 
the day ran into evening, 
so much life in the city ran into death 
  according to rule, 
time and tide waited for no man, 
the rats were sleeping close together 
  in their dark holes again, 
the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, 
all things ran their course.
The clouds were drifting over the moon 
  at their giddiest speed;
An evening wind uprose, too:
Withering leaves no longer quiet, 
hurried to and fro in search of shelter.

—Charles Dickens

SCORE 𝄞

What fell upon my open umbrella—
A plum-blossom? 

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄢

Instants in the quiet, small sharp stars,
Pierce my spirit with a thrust whose 
  speed
Baffles even the grasp of time.
Oh that I might reflect them
As swiftly, as keenly as they shine.
But I am a pool of waters, summer-still,
And the stars are mirrored across me;
Those stabbing points of the sky
Turned to a thread of shaken silver,
A long fine thread.

—Aldus Huxley

SCORE 𝄞

Send sunflowers! 
With my turkey-bone whistle 
I am calling the birds 
To sing upon the sunflowers. 
For when the clouds hear them singing 
They will come quickly, 
And rain will fall upon our fields. 
Send sunflowers!

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄢

So you say, my darling:
Your love is like gazelles swiftly racing,
or a lamb far from home,
or wanton sea foam.
But tell me again: 
What is your love? 
Flowers smitten with rain?
Again, what’s that? 
Your heart pat-
and-pitters in time with my gait?
Don’t lay that conceit 
at my feet! 
Wait—
there’s more...? 
You’re
a boat and I am your moor?
No, that doesn’t sound right…
Last night you said your love 
  was a hurricane, 
a tempest, a squall—
or was it a serpent to my charmer’s 
  thrall?
Or an apple tree,
a lyric flute,
a honey bee,
a plaintive lute strumming a song 
   without words!
Or perhaps it was birds? 
Yes, that’s what it was.
A cuckoo or wren, 
which then
lands a peck on my neck; 
or a lark, 
blackbird, 
nightingale or dove—
or some other bird I’ve never heard of.
Stop the similes: 
no more birds, 
no more bees; 
no phylum, 
no genus, 
no species—please!
Must our constancy be 
built on hyperbole?
So I say, my darling:
No need to construe.
I know that you love me.
I love you, too.	

—Karim Al-Zand

SCORE 𝄞

All night our room was outer-walled with 
  rain.   
Drops fell and flattened on the tin roof,   
And rang like little disks of metal.   
Ping! Ping! and there was not a pin-point 
  of silence between them.   

The rain rattled and clashed,   
And the slats of the shutters danced 
  and glittered.   
But to me the darkness was red-gold 
  and crocus-colored
 
With your brightness,   
And the words you whispered to me
Sprang up and flamed—orange torches 
  against the rain.   
Torches against the wall of cool, 
  silver rain! 

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄞

The pool is edged with the blade-like 
leaves of irises.
If I throw a stone into the placid water,
It suddenly stiffens
Into rings and rings
Of sharp gold wire.

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄞

Roses and larkspur
And slender serried lilies;
I wonder whether
These are worth your attention.
Consider it, and if not—

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄞

Then finish the last song and let us leave.
  Forget this night when the night is 
no more.
  Whom do I try to clasp in my arms? 
Dreams can never be made captive.
  My eager hands press emptiness 
to my heart and it bruises my breast.

—Rabindranath Tagoe

SCORE 𝄢

Then finish the last song and let us leave.
  Forget this night when the night is 
no more.
  Whom do I try to clasp in my arms? 
Dreams can never be made captive.
  My eager hands press emptiness to 
my heart and it bruises my breast.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄞

I came from the country
With flowers,   
Larkspur and roses,   
Fretted lilies
In their leaves,   
And long, cool lavender.   
I carried them
From house to house,   
And cried them
Down hot streets.   
The sun fell 
Upon my flowers,   
And the dust of the streets
Blew over my basket. 

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄞 𝄢

There are numerous strings in your lute, 
let me add my own among them.
Then when you smite your chords, 
my heart will break its silence, 
and my life will be one with your song.	
Amidst your numberless stars let me 
place my own little lamp.
In the dance of your festival lights 
my heart will throb and my life will 
be one with your smile.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄞

Spring Rain
Tinkling of ankle bracelets.  
Dull striking  
Of jade and sardonyx  
From whirling ends of jointed circlets.   

Summer Rain
Clashing of bronze bucklers,  
Screaming of horses.  
Red plumes of head-trappings  
Flashing above spears. 

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄢

Marry
 
Children—(if it Please God)—Constant 
companion, (& friend in old age) who 
will feel interested in one—To be 
beloved & played with—better than a 
dog anyhow.—Charms of music & female 
chit-chat.—These things good for one’s 
health.—Forced to visit relations but 
terrible loss of time.—(But then it 
is very bad for ones health to work 
too much.)—My God, it is intolerable 
to think of spending ones whole life, 
like a neuter bee, working, working, 
& nothing after all.—No, no won’t do.—
Only picture to yourself a nice soft 
wife on a sofa with good fire, & books 
& music perhaps...

Not Marry
  
No children, (no second life), no one 
to care for one in old age.—What is 
the use of working without sympathy 
from near & dear friends—Freedom to 
go where one liked— choice of Society 
& little of it.—Conversation of clever 
men at clubs.—Not forced to visit 
relatives, & to bend in every trifle.
—anxiety & responsibility—less money 
for books—perhaps quarreling—Loss of 
time.—Cannot read in the Evenings—
fatness & idleness—Perhaps my wife 
won’t like London—the dingy reality 
of Grt. Marlbro’ St.—Imagine living 
all one’s day solitarily in smoky 
dirty London House.

Marry—Marry—Marry: Q.E.D.

—Charles Darwin

SCORE 𝄢

this song is going to end, my love
though its music has just begun
but I will not let it finish, my love
no I won’t
I’ll sing of you forever
they’ll drag me 
from the stage kicking 
and screaming, my love
but it is no use
this song is going to end
but then what?
a void
no trace of sound
what will become of my love, my love?
stop
it’s moving too fast
and very soon I fear
it will end
another bar gone by
and another
for heaven’s sake slow down
my measures must be drastic
I will sing it again and again, my love
until my voice turns to dust
on my lips
but no I cannot
to sing this 
strain
forever, my love
the dread
is too much to bear,
the song is going to end
it is futile
let it be done
here it is
now, my—

—Karim Al-Zand

SCORE 𝄞

The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, 
  lies between me and my book;
And the South Wind, washing through 
  the room, Makes the candles quiver.
My nerves sting at a spatter of rain 
  on the shutter,
And I am uneasy with the thrusting 
  of green shoots
Outside, in the night.

Why are you not here to overpower me 
with your tense and urgent love?

—Amy Lowell

SCORE 𝄢

Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness
Fewness of this precious only
Endless world in which you say
You live, you think of things like this:
Blocks of slate enclosing dappled
Red and green, enclosing tawny
Yellow nets, enclosing white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where a neat brown paper parcel
Tempts you to untie the string.
In the parcel a small island,
On the island a large tree,
On the tree a husky fruit.
Strip the husk and pare the rind off:
In the kernel you will see
Blocks of slate enclosed by dappled
Red and green, enclosed by tawny
Yellow nets, enclosed by white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where the same brown paper parcel—
Children, leave the string alone!
For who dares undo the parcel
Finds himself at once inside it,
On the island, in the fruit,
Blocks of slate about his head,
Finds himself enclosed by dappled
Green and red, enclosed by yellow
Tawny nets, enclosed by black
And white acres of dominoes,
With the same brown paper parcel
Still untied upon his knee.
And, if he then should dare to think
Of the fewness, muchness, rareness,
Greatness of this endless only
Precious world in which he says
he lives—he then unties the string.

—Robert Graves

SCORE

When she passed by me with quick 
steps, the end of her skirt touched me.
  From the unknown island of a heart 
came a sudden warm breath of spring.
  A flutter of a flitting touch brushed 
me and vanished in a moment, like a torn 
flower petal blown in the breeze.
  It fell upon my heart like a sigh of 
her body and whisper of her heart.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄞

When the two sisters go to fetch water, 
they come to this spot and they smile.
  They must be aware of somebody who 
stands behind the trees whenever they 
go to fetch water.

  The two sisters whisper to each other 
when they pass this spot.
  They must have guessed the secret of 
that somebody who stands behind the 
trees 
whenever they go to fetch water.

  Their pitchers lurch suddenly, and water 
spills when they reach this spot.
  They must have found out that 
somebody’s heart is beating who stands 
behind the trees whenever they go to 
fetch water.

  The two sisters glance at each other 
when they come to this spot, and 
they smile.
  There is a laughter in their swift-
stepping feet, which makes confusion in 
somebody’s mind who stands behind the 
trees whenever they go to fetch water.

—Rabindranath Tagore

SCORE 𝄢

You left ground and sky weeping,
mind and soul full of grief.
No one can take your place in existence
or in absence. Both mourn:
the angels, and the prophets 
—and this sadness I feel has taken 
from me the taste of language, 
so that I can’t say the flavor
of my being apart. The roof
of the kingdom within has collapsed!
Do whatever you wish to do, 
the issue is over.

—from The Death of Saladin, 
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 
• last line from the letters of Adnan Latif

SCORE 𝄞

Your letter pleased me greatly.
What you wrote in your letter has given 
  me unexpected happiness. 
You would scarcely believe how much I 
  enjoyed your letter.
How exceedingly your letter has 
  delighted my spirit! 
When your letter arrived a glowing 
  radiance seized me. 
I am flattered that you thought me worthy 
  of such a letter. 
Your anxiously awaited letter has come 
  at last. 
Nothing more longed for than your letter 
  could have come to me. 
When the mail carrier handed me your 
  letter, my soul began to thrum with an 
  ineffable joy. 
Whatever sadness was in me, your letter 
  soon cast it out.
What was the cause of my abundant 
  rejoicing? Your letter!
Your letter wiped the wrinkles from 
  my brow. 
While I read what you wrote to me in 
  your letter, a euphoric bliss stole 
  into my heart. 
Oh, wonderful! How much merriment 
  your letter aroused in me! 
What laughter, what applause, what 
  exultant dancing your letter caused.
There is no pleasure, no charm with 
  which I would compare your letter. 
What clover is to bees, what willow 
  boughs are to goats, what honey is 
  to the bear, your letter is to me. 
No delicacy so caresses the palate as 
  your letter captivates my heart. 
As utterly as I love you, so utterly 
  am I thrilled by your letter. 
There is nothing I shall receive with 
gladder spirit than your next letter.

—Desiderius Erasmus

YOUNG AUDIENCES

Swimmy (2010)

for narrator, clarinet, piano, violin & cello
based on the children’s picture book by Leo Lionni
5 minutes

Red Pajamas (2005)

for flute (piccolo), clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
variations on a folk tune [a work for young audiences]
8 minutes

BeatBox (2010)

for clarinet, trumpet, double bass, piano & percussion
divertissement for young audiences
5 minutes

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001/2018)

for narrator, orchestra: winds: 2*2*2*2*; brass: 4210; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & orchestra
24 minutes

CHRONOLOGICAL

Vespertine Songs (2023)

for baritone & piano
four songs of the night
11 minutes

Four Not So Serious Songs (2023)

for baritone & piano
comic songs with texts by Robert Graves
9 minutes

Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly (2023)

for soprano & piano
variations on a text by Erasmus
7 minutes

Unsentimental Love Songs (2023)

assorted songs for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
songs on the quotidian side of love
7 minutes

Strange Machines (String Quartet No. 4) (2022)

for 2 violins, viola & cello
three musical automata
12 minutes

Lines in Motion (2022)

for piano trio
three pieces after kinetic illustrations by Quillivic, Masereel & Esherick
10 minutes

Let Down the Scale of Music from the Sky (2022)

for solo organ
fantasy on a ground of Purcell
12 minutes

Loop Studies (2021)

for violin & loop pedal
13 minutes

Two Songs (2021)

for mezzo-soprano, & piano
songs on poetry of Reg Huston
4 minutes

Ignoble Dances (2020)

for flute & piano
seven dances in the year 2020
16 minutes

Toccata (2020)

for solo organ
5 minutes

The Leader (2020)

Die Mistel [Mistletoe] (2019)

for baritone, piano quartet & vibraphone
5 minutes

Six Bagatelles (2018)

for violin, cello & piano
10 minutes

Songs from the Post-Truth Era (2018)

for soprano & bassoon
6 minutes

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001/2018)

for narrator, orchestra: winds: 2*2*2*2*; brass: 4210; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & orchestra
24 minutes

Two Songs from The Prisoner (2017)

for baritone & piano
on the life and death of Adnan Latif
8 minutes

The Prisoner (2017)

for bass voice solo, orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4431; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 4 percussion; strings
28 minutes

Ring the Bells at Break of Day (2016)

for orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4331; 2 harps; piano/celeste; timpani, 5 percussion; strings
6 minutes

Luctus Profugis (2016)

for string orchestra
elegy for the displaced
6 minutes

Stomping Grounds (2015)

for clarinet, violin & piano
15 minutes

Tarantella (2015)

for piano
maniacal dance
5 minutes

Pattern Preludes (books 1—4) (2005, 2009, 2009, 2015)

for piano
24 short figural preludes for piano (may be played individually)
38 minutes: book 1 (11 minutes), book 2 (8 minutes), book 3 (8 minutes), book 4 (11 minutes)

Studies in Nature (2014)

for harp, flute & viola
after nature illustrations by Ernst Haeckel
12 minutes

Cinderella (2014)

for flute, clarinet, cornet (trumpet), trombone, string quartet & percussion
music for the 1922 silent silhouette film by Lotte Reiniger
13 minutes

Canticle and Caprice (2014)

for violin, viola, & cello
short concert work for string trio
7 minutes

Fantasy on Bulgarian Rhythms (2013)

for string quartet
inspired by folk dance rhythms of Bulgaria
7 minutes

Paganini Reverie (2013)

for piano
short fantasy for piano on the famous 24th caprice
5 minutes

Hollows and Dells (2013)

for viola & piano
concert work in three reminiscences
12 minutes

El Martillo (2013)

for 3 pairs of bongos
fantasy on an Afro-Cuban rhythm
3 minutes

Thirteen Tanka (2013)

for baritone, oboe, viola & cello
song cycle on Japanese tanka poetry
9 minutes

Duo (2012)

for flute & cello
concert work in three movements
12 minutes

Capriccios (2002–2017)

for violin
six capriccios (may be played individually)
12 minutes (2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2 minutes)

Orange Torches Against the Rain (2012)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle of flowers and rain after poems by Amy Lowell
12 minutes

Ronde Fantastique (2012)

for 10 instruments
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
4 minutes

The Spinning Ballerina (2011)

for 15 instruments
after an illustration by J. J. Grandville
6 minutes

G. F. Handel’s Messiah: The Pre-Game Show (2011)

for actor; SATB chorus; tenor solo, baritone solo; orchestra: 2 oboes, 2 bassoon; 2 trumpets, timpani, harpsichord; strings
presentation for young audiences
45 minutes

BeatBox (2010)

for clarinet, trumpet, double bass, piano & percussion
divertissement for young audiences
5 minutes

Quelques Fleurs (2010)

for clarinet, cello & piano
perfumed suite in four movements
12 minutes

Swimmy (2010)

for narrator, clarinet, piano, violin & cello
based on the children’s picture book by Leo Lionni
5 minutes

Cabinet of Curiosities (2009)

for clarinet & piano
concert work in five diverse miniatures
15 minutes

Visions from Another World (2008)

for orchestra: winds: 2*22*2; brass: 2110; harp; harpsichord; timpani, 3 percussion; strings (also version for sinfonietta)
after illustrations by J. J. Grandville
13 minutes

The Art of Conversation (String Quartet No. 3) (2007)

for 2 violins, viola & cello
seven dialogues for string quartet
12 minutes

Lingering (2007)

for piano, violin & cello
ringtone
23 seconds

Tableau and Details (2006)

for cello & piano
concert work in one scene and four details
15 minutes

City Scenes (2006)

for orchestra: winds: 3*3*3*3*; brass: 4331; harp; piano/celeste; timpani, 3 percussion; strings
three urban dances for orchestra
11 minutes

Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006)

for string sextet (also transcribed for string orchestra)
after etchings of Francisco de Goya
10 minutes

Three Character Pieces (2006)

for bassoon & viola
short concert work in three movements
7 minutes

Imaginary Scenes (2005)

for violin & piano
concert work in four fantasies
17 minutes

Fanfares (2005–)

for 6 trumpets
three fanfares for trumpet ensemble
3; 2; 2 minutes

The Waiting Game (2005)

for flute (/piccolo), clarinet (/bass clarinet), violin, cello, harp & percussion
choreographic scene for dance
10 minutes

Red Pajamas (2005)

for flute (piccolo), clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
variations on a folk tune [a work for young audiences]
8 minutes

Tagore Love Songs (2004)

for mezzo-soprano, baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
22 minutes

The Secret Of Your Heart (2004)

for mezzo-soprano & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

The Sky With All Its Stars (2004)

for baritone & piano
song cycle on poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
10 minutes

Concertino for Trumpet (2004)

for trumpet & chamber orchestra: trumpet (C), flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, contrabass, 2 percussion
15 minutes

Music Box Prelude (2004)

for piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello & piano (or harp), percussion
humorous intermezzo
3 minutes

Four Fables (2003)

for flute, clarinet & piano
based on fables from near and far
11 minutes

The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad (2003)

for orchestra: winds: piccolo, 2222, soprano sax, contrabssoon; brass: 4221; harp; timpani, 3 percussion; strings
tone poem for orchestra
14 minutes

Variations (2002)

for viola & piano
on a theme by Bartok
7 minutes

String Quartet No. 2 ‘Etudes’ (2002)

for string quartet
11 minutes

Leila (2001)

for baritone & guitar, with optional string quartet
song cycle
11 minutes

Parizade and the Singing Tree (2001)

for narrator, flute (/piccolo /alto flute), clarinet (/bass clarinet), violin,cello, piano & percussion
folk tale from the Arabian Nights for narrator & ensemble
24 minutes

A Measure In Trance (2000)

for choir acapella SSAATTBB
six songs for choir on poetry of Al-Mutazz
8 minutes

Duet (1998)

for harp & viola
romance in four movements
11 minutes

Winter Scenes (1997)

for mezzo-soprano, harp, flute (/alto flute) & viola
four songs on poetry of D. G. Jones
13 minutes

MISC.

MUSICAL MISCELLANEA

Elegiac Poem (2024)

A short vignette written for Subaerial Collective in support of the Composers Conference on their 80th anniversary. SCORE

A Song I Wish I’d Written (2023)

A short (autobiographical?) comic song for voice and piano written as a recital encore. SCORE

Dance Interlude (2020)

for 2 oboes and English horn
Commissioned as part of ROCO’s FIFteen Project, celebrating the ensemble’s 15th anniversary. The project, curated by Houston-based composer, Mark Buller, was a fifteen Fanfares, Interludes, and Finales, sprinkled throughout ROCO’s 15th and 16th seasons.
SCORE

Klangkiste (2018)

for orchestra
An unusual commission for the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, a short work for their Klangkiste [SoundBox], an interactive website for young audiences. Film composer Loy Wesselburg wrote a theme, upon which works were commissioned for each of the WDR ensembles (Choir, Big Band, Orchestra). My work was written to highlight all the instruments of the orchestra.
SCORE

Musiqa Happy Birthday Musiqa (2011)

for clarinet, violin, cello
For the 10th anniversary of Musiqa, the five composers of the group created a series of variations on Happy Birthday. In the recording below, the order of the contributions is: Anthony Brandt, Karim Al-Zand, Pierre Jalbert, Rob Smith, Marcus Maroney.
SCORE

Lingering (2007)

for violin, cello, piano
A cellphone ringtone premiered in October 13, 2007 as part of Musiqa’s ‘Stay Tuned’ concert. The concert featured a ‘ring cycle’ of four original, downloadable cell-phone ringtones, performed live. [23 seconds]
SCORE

Fugue for Gerald Self (2011)

for keyboard

A Baroque fugue written for harpsichord maker Gerald Self, who built a beautiful Flemish single for me in 2011. The 3-voice fugue subject is derived from the letters in his name:
SCORE

They Won’t Go When I Go (2015)

for piano, violin, clarinet/bass clarinet, viola & cello
An arrangement of Stevie Wonder’s classic They Won’t Go When I Go from his 1974 album Fulfillingness’ First Finale. Written for the Rogue Ensemble (Richie Hawley, clarinet; Emily Nebel, violin; Chris McKiggan piano; Ab Sengupta, viola; Julia Cleworth, cello).
SCORE

Alternate Ending (2014)

for alto saxophone
Written for saxophonist Dan Gelok to accompany the short silent film by John Pilson.
SCORE

Dittersdorf Cadenza (2012)

for viola & contrabass
A short cadenza for the Sinfonia Concertante for viola and contrabass by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, written at the request of my dear colleagues Ivo van der Werff and Tim Pitts.
SCORE

Taratantara (2011)

for sundry crumhorns
Little ditty for the Crumhorn Collective. The title comes from a 1584 poem by Clement Robinson: A Handful of Pleasant Delights

…me thinks I heare
A trumpet shril which plain doth show
my Lord is neare:
Tantara tara tantara,
this trumpet glads our hearts…

SCORE

Only Begotten, Word of God Eternal (2004)

for choir
A liturgical hymn in the Anglican style (11.11.11.5) with concluding Alleluia. Words by Maxwell Julius Blacker.
SCORE