Chamber/Solo & Duo

Stargazing (2010) violin and electronics
Echolocation (2009) saxophone quartet
Event Horizon (2009) string quartet
Impromptu (2008) violin and piano
Automata (2008) piano solo
Sarcasms (2008) alto saxophone and piano
You're So Fine (2008) viola solo
Toccata (2007) violin and piano
Delights and Shadows (2007) bass voice and piano
Recurrency (2007) cello octet
Imprints (2006) 2 pianos
Pins and Needles (2006) mixed ensemble
Marimbaphobia (2006) marimba solo
Night Signals (2005) cl, vn, vc, and piano
String Quartet (2005)
Brass Quintet (2004)
Sounds & Shapes (2004) mixed ensemble
Quintet (2003) cl, bn, perc, vc, cb
Horn Sonata (2003) horn and piano
String Trio (2002) vn, vl, vc

Pins and Needles (2006)
for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano

Premiered by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble; Sydney Hodkinson, conductor
Jul. 13, 2006, Harris Hall, Aspen, Colorado 

Program Notes:
Pins and Needles was composed in the summer of 2006 for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. Basing the entire piece on a half-step motive, it is often inverted into a 7th or expanded into a 9th but is ingrained in every aspect of the piece. The half-step motive is and creeps slowly up throughout the piece, making the piece into essentially a slow chromatic scale and a large crescendo over the long-term, intensifying at almost every single possible moment from the beginning to the end, aside from a few resting spots.