Compositions
Conversations w/ Ligeti and Heidegger, (and Mom in the background): for flute (doubling alto), clarinet (doubling bass), piano, and crystal glasses, 2013, 12 min.
Commissioned by Trillium Ensemble
The Garden of Forking Paths: for orchestra, 2015, 10 min.
Michiko: six movements for flute and koto/singer featuring texts by 紫 式部 (Murasaki Shikibu) and 西行 法師(Saigyo Hoshi), 2015, 22 min. Commissioned by 会田 淳 (Jun Aita) for her mother, 斉藤 (Michiko Saito).
Nine Coins (Folksongs from Uqbar): for clarinet, marimba, and cello, 2014, 6 min.
Composed for the Eveloff Family
Fine Love: a setting of a modified fin’amors text for mezzo-soprano and piano, 2014, 3 min.
Su Counterpoint: for B-flat clarinet, zheng, and percussion, 2014, 7 min.
Commissioned by clarinetist Jun Qian for a CD project to be release on Albany Records.
The Corellian Mirrors: for cello duo, 2013-2014, 6-20 min. (mobile score)
Commissioned by cellist Carter Enyert
Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo: for percussion ensemble with Ionization instrumentation, 2013, 6 min. Commissioned by Hamiruge
Prong: for featured violin and viola duo with flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello, 2013, 5 min.
Commissioned by Duo Scordatura
The Avoidance of a Word: for erhu, cello, and Chinese percussion, 2013, 9 min.
Commissioned by Music From China with guest cellist Alvin Wong
(a version with violin substituting for erhu is also available)
The User Experience: for electronics, dancers, and heat-based screen projections, 2013, 1 hr.
In collaboration with Caroline Record (visual artist/ computer programmer/artistic director), Geoffery P. Morgan (computer programmer), and the Pillow Project (dancers)
Diffuse: a video sample of thermal software+dancers with fixed media, 2013, 5 min.
(a version is also available for live performance, 2013, 6 min.)
who’s_in_a_bunker?: for flute, clarinet (doubling bass), percussion, and piano, 2012, 10 min.
Kandinsky in the Night Sky: for cimbalom solo and percussion sextet, 2012, 20 min.
Commissioned by Kutztown University
Keep Talking: for horn, amplified viola, and electric bass guitar, 2012, 10 min.
Commissioned by Made of Win!
Ecstasis: for string quartet, 2012, 13 min.
Constellations II: for flute, B-flat clarinet (doubling bass), percussion, piano, violin, and cello, 2012, 8 min.
The Situation is…: for solo glockenspiel, 2012, 9 min.
Commissioned by Brett Dietz
Constellations: for flute, B-flat clarinet (doubling bass), percussion solo, violin, and cello, 2011, 15 min.
Music for Three Percussionists: for percussion trio, 2011, 6 min.
Commissioned by the Duquesne University Percussion Ensemble
Visions of Time, the River: for percussion duo, 2011, 8 min.
Commissioned by Frank Kumor and Kutztown University
Are You Comfortable with Evil?: for flute, bongos, and 17 hz tone, 2011, 9 min.
So It Goes…: for wind ensemble, 2010, 8.5 min.
Written for the Duquesne University Wind Ensemble
Scott Steele 