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Orchestra and Large Ensemble
 
Unfamiliar Trees (2018)
Wind Ensemble, 10'
Commissioned and premiered by the University of Colorado Boulder Wind Symphony

Abound (2017) 
3333 4331 timp+2, harp, strings, 10'
Commissioned and premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Unreassembled Hymn (2017) 
2221+contra 4331 timp+3, piano, strings, 8'
Premiered by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra

Argo (2016) 
2222 4221 timp+2, celesta, strings, 9'
Premiered by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra

Altogether Thunder (2016)
2222 2221 timp+2, strings, 4'
Commissioned and premiered by the Louisville Orchestra

Scroll of the Air (2015)
picc+2222 4331 timp+3, harp, pno/celesta, strings, 7'
Premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra

Green Go to Me (2014)
2222 2221 timp+3, harp, pno, strings, 7'
Premiered by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Orchestra
 
Fanfare (2013)
Symphonic Brass Ensemble and Percussion, 3'
Commissioned and premiered by the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra
 

Chamber Ensemble

Interior (2020)
Violin and Piano, 7'
Commissioned by the Anderson Sasaki Duo
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Dissolve (2019)
Saxophone Quartet, 13'
Commissioned and premiered by PRISM Quartet

Slow Song for Mark Rothko (2018)
Flute, Percussion, Cello, Narrator, 18'
Commissioned  and premiered by the Michael Steinberg and Jorja Fleezanis Fund

Assemble (2017)
Multitrack Cello or Eight Cellos, 10'
Commissioned and premiered by Ashley Bathgate

Settle (2016)
Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano, 7'
Commissioned and premiered by the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival

Street Haunting (2015)
Violin, Viola, and Cello, 12'
Premiered by Shannon Lee, Rimbo Wong, and Jean Kim

Phoria (2015)
Piano Four-Hands, 7'
Commissioned and premiered by HOCKET

Now is the Time (2014)
Violin, Cello, and Piano, 7'
Premiered by Music from Copland House

Like Frost or Moss (2013) 
Two Clarinets, Violin, Cello, and Piano, 10'
Premiered by Pierre Genisson, Jonas Losciale, Clara Kim, Sarah Rommel, and Thomas Kotcheff
 
Etched (2011)
String Quartet, 6'
Premiered by the JACK Quartet
Winner of the 2012 Tribeca New Music Young Composers Competition


Solo 

Music on waves (2016)
Violin, 5'
Commissioned and premiered by Abigail Fayette

Heights (2016)
Carillon, 5'
Commissioned by the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs and premiered by Tiffany Lin at the GCNA National Conference

Amidst Ringing (2013)
Piano, 5'
Commissioned by the 2014 Fisher Young Pianists Competition and premiered by Yoshino Toi


Vocal

Emergence (2021)
Mezzo and Piano, 1'
Commissioned and premiered by Kara Dugan and WQXR

In the Train (2021)
Soprano and Piano, 3'
Premiered by Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

beautiful small things (2017)
Soprano and Piano, 3'
Written in collaboration with poet Ryan Harris
Commissioned by the Lynx Project for the 2017 Autism Advocacy Project

Nunc dimittis (2017)
SATB, 3'
Premiered at the University Lutheran Church Choral Compline Service

The King's Daughters Confess (2014)
Three Sopranos and Piano, 6'
Written in collaboration with poet Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
Premiered by Alyssa Wills, Chelsea Chaves, Saousan Jarjour, and Lisa Sylvester





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