This work has not yet been recorded—the link above is a MIDI rendering. You can read more about this work at the blog post linked here.

Duration: 3’15”

Commissioner: Robert Clayson (Website | YouTube)

Range: A2-F4 (optional Ab’s)

Commissioned as part of the New Music Cookbook project by Robert Clayson, French Onion Chicken Pasta is meant to follow gestures of each stage of cooking the dish.

Opening with sprinkling seasonings and moving to the boiling of noodles, the rest of the work plays with different combinations of rolls and recurring motives—ultimately bringing the two elements together into a single “dish” at the end!

Pricing

Digital: $8

PDF includes a marimba score formatted for page turns.

All proceeds from works in the New Music Cookbook project are donated to a local food bank (if one is not specified by purchaser, funds are sent to Oregon Food Bank).

Duration: 6’15”

Commissioner: Sarah Hetrick (Website | YouTube) and Paul Millette (Website | YouTube)

Range: C2-Bb6

Commissioned by saxophonist Sarah Hetrick and percussionist Paul Millette, ROOTED is inspired by the various uses of roots in the works of Frida Kahlo. Roots were used in Kahlo’s paintings for a wide array of meanings—to depict feelings of being trapped or in pain (particularly in works dealing with her hospitalizations), to show feeling more grounded and growing outward, and even to portray connections to her cultural history. The piece opens with shuddering breaths from the saxophonist and cold, mechanical tones in the marimba before blossoming outward into tangled, flowing lines with whimsical outbursts. Pervasive rhythms, expressive solo moments, playful hocketing, and powerful tutti arrivals work to create a dynamic and virtuosic showcase piece while paying homage to one of the 20th century’s greatest artistic voices.

Pricing

Digital: $20

PDF includes a full score (transposed and/or in C) and separate parts for each performer, formatted for page turns.

A version with piano in place of marimba will be available December 2023!

This work has not yet been recorded - the above is a MIDI rendering of the work.

Duration: 3’30”

Commissioner: Andrew Boylan, for Camas and Courtney Stredder

Range: C2-Bb6

Commissioned for sister musicians Camas and Courtney as part of the Project 12 commissions, You and Me, Filigree attempts to capture both the independent spirit of each voice while still providing moments of true interplay. Starting in a darker, more melancholic tone, the piece eventually brightens playfully as the voices start to mimic one another more closely. Both instruments are given the opportunity to play both foreground and background roles as the piece presses into a final drive of energy, ending with a flourish.

Pricing

Digital: $15

PDF includes a full performance score, as well as optional solo parts for each performer, formatted for page turns.

Duration: 3’30”

Commissioner: Jade Hails (YouTube) and Letizia Pent (YouTube)

This short work for vibraphone and piano was inspired in part by the novel Giants in the Earth and the film Days of Heaven, which both feature a giant, destructive swarm of locusts. The piano starts with a menacing march as the vibraphone swells and decays. The piano and vibraphone dialogue back and forth, building exponentially until a tutti outburst creeps, crawls, and zooms downward. This interplay continues throughout the work with only momentary reprieves—resulting in a dynamic, truly balanced duo sure to leave a chill down the spine of your listener!

Pricing

Digital: $0!

All works in the Commissions from Quarantine series are available for free.

Duration: 5’45”

Commissioner: Grand Circle New Music Ensemble (Website | YouTube)

Commissioned as part of the Project 12 commissioning series, Cliff Notes was inspired by the Red Cliffs near St. George, Utah where the Grand Circle New Music Ensemble is based. The piece works to capture the rugged beauty, towering scale, and arid climate of the cliffs—fiddle-inspired gestures in the viola, thin, soaring melodies in the cello, and groove-based ostinatos from the double bass permeate the work as the vibraphone lends both percussive impact and hypnotic textures throughout. The result is a dynamic work that makes the perfect ending piece for any recital!

Pricing

Digital: $25

PDF includes a full score and individual parts for each player, formatted for page turns.

Recording from premiere performance by Leif Larson, Christopher Smith, Lisbet Finseth, and Emily Wonder

Duration: 4’30”

Range: G3-G5 and A2-A5

This entrancing work was inspired by the opening of Ole Rølvaag’s novel, Giants in the Earth, in which the protagonists make their way through the vast American prairie for the first time. The work mirrors the breath-taking openness of the prairie and the subtle dread felt by the pioneers, with small outbursts of cascading musical gestures.

‘Tish-ah!’ said the grass. . . .‘T’ish-ah! Tish-ah!’ . . . Never had it said anything else—never would it say anything else.
—Giants in the Earth, page 1

Pricing

Digital: $15

PDF includes a full score, and solo parts for each performer, formatted for page turns.

Duration: 5’15”

Commissioner: Allen Parrish (Website)

Commissioned by Allen Parrish as part of the Project 12 series and for a recital of works reflecting on natural disasters, Wild Orbits follows the struggle between the natural and man-made worlds. Changes in both nature and in our responses to these changes cause us to orbit one another instead of allowing us to find true coexistence or balance—and as our responses to each other become more extreme, these orbits begin to spiral dangerously out of control. All of the samples heard in the electronics are field recordings of the natural world (birds, thunder, wind, ocean waves, rocks, etc.) that have been manipulated to varying degrees—while the unusual instrumentation creates unique opportunities for both overwhelming power as well as delicate, nuanced textures.

Pricing

Digital: $15

PDF includes a full score, a detailed cue sheet for the electronics, and solo parts for each performer, formatted for page turns. Purchase also includes a download link for the electronics.

Duration: 4’30”

Premiered as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival, Something to Prove is a ferocious work for mallet sextet. Beginning somewhat innocuously with soft, mysterious chord exchanges in the vibraphones, the full ensemble soon catapults the work into an explosive array of counterpoint and color—scattered with solo and group features throughout. The piece recalls its opening, culminating in a chorale-like passage with only the marimbas. This small moment of introspection grows dramatically to reprise the flurry of notes from before, ending with a dramatic series of solos, modulations, and a final punctuating gesture.

Pricing

Digital: $15

PDF includes a full score and solo parts for each performer, formatted for page turns.