selected compositions
large ensemble:
Lord, When You Send The Rain (2021)
For Skrontch Music ensemble (11-piece improvising ensemble)
Duration: 70’
Seven movement suite exploring the blues as a Black musical and socio-political construction.
Premiered at the Broadside, New Orleans, June 2021
Skrontch Music (2017)
For 10-piece large improvising ensemble
Duration: 60'
Five movement suite exploring New Orleans jazz history through contemporary composition
Premiered at Xavier University, New Orleans, April 2017, recording released October 2019 on Sinking City Records.
Impermanence (2011)
For jazz septet
Duration: approx. 45'
Funded in part by an emergency grant from the Foundation For Contemporary Art, NYC
Premiered at the Axa In Action Festival, Prague, CZ, December 2011
chamber:
I Died For Beauty (2018)
For Voice, Clarinet, Cello, Drumset, Electronics
Duration: 8'
Musical setting of "I died for beauty," a poem by Emily Dickenson
Premiered by Hinterland, December 2018, New Orleans, LA
Lord When You Send The Rain (2018)
For Voice, Clarinet, Viola, Drumset, Electronics
Duration: 7'
Musical setting of "Lord When You Send The Rain," a poem by James Baldwin
Premiered by Hinterland, December 2018, New Orleans, LA
Imagination (2018)
For Voice, Bass Clarinet, Cello, Drumset, Electronics
Duration: 9'
Musical setting of "Imagination," a poem by James Baldwin
Premiered by Hinterland, December 2018, New Orleans, LA
Up For Air (2015)
For String Quartet
Duration: 7'
Premiered by Mivos Quartet at Tulane University, December 2015, New Orleans, LA
dance/theatre/opera/film:
The Bedbug (2021)
For piano and mixed range vocalists
Duration: 65’
Two act opera adapted from the play The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1929).
Workshop concert premiere with Promenade Opera Project, Boston MA, October 2021
Querelle (2019)
For mixed chamber ensemble
Duration: 25'
Ballet adaptation of Querelle de Brest, a novel by Jean Genet
Commissioned and premiered by the Marigny Opera Ballet and the New Resonance Chamber Orchestra, choreography by Diogo de Lima, January 2019, New Orleans, LA
Wary Heat (2017)
For Clarinet, Bass clarinet, Tenor saxophone, Double bass and Drumset
Duration: 25'
Ballet collectively composed by Nutria
Commissioned and premiered by the Marigny Opera Ballet and Nutria, choreography by Diogo de Lima, January 2017 (remounted January 2018), New Orleans, LA
Revolt of the Beavers (2015)
For Clarinet, Accordion, 13 vocalists (mixed range)
Duration: 60'
New score and incidental music for libretto and script by Oscar Saul and Lou Lantz (1937)
Commissioned and premiered by Cripple Creek Theatre Company, May 2015, New Orleans, LA
Ghosts Before Breakfast (2015)
For mixed chamber ensemble
Duration: 6'
New score for 1928 film of the same title by Hans Richter
Premiered by Contemporaneous, April 2015, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Arrangement for trio released on Call To The Air by Nutria (Breakfast for Dinner Records, 2018)
At the Hawk's Well (2013)
For Clarinet, Trombone, Violin
Duration: 20'
New score and incidental music for play by W. B. Yeats
Premiered at the BarnArts, August 2013, Bass Harbor, ME