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   Composition List


  • Music for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (2009); 15 min, sample pdf
  • Rufus, Javier and Sven Chase a Chicken Through a Church (2009) for tenor and bass trombones; Premiere 2009: Eastman School of Music's Kilburn Hall; 4.5 min, sample pdf
  • The Androgynous Parrot (2008) for four improvisers; ~18 min (indeterminate)
  • Piano Trio #1 “The Mutant Crab and the Minotaur” (2008) for piano, violin and cello; 9 min, sample pdf
  • Jewish Food (2006) for woodwind quintet; 9 min
  • Symphony #1 “Unrequited” (2005-2007) for 2-2-2-2, 2-2-2-1, 3 perc and strings; 16 min
  • Aesop's Animals (2004) for six solo singers and mixed octet (opt puppets); 25 min; Premiere 2004: Studio Theatre, Knox College
  • Theme and Variations (2004) for string quartet and tape; 3 min
  • For Carole Maso (2004) for trumpet quartet; 3 min; Premiere 2009: Around Hear, Houston
  • Star Spangled Banner (arrangement) (2003) for brass quintet; 2 min; Premiere 2004: Knox College, Spring Student Recitals
  • I Have Chronic Muscle Spasms And Someone Just Informed Me That I Dropped My Toothbrush (2003) for brass quintet and drum set; 2 min
  • Doug in Hades (2003) for trumpet (doubling vocals), trombone, and double bass; 5 min; Premiere 2003: Knox College, New Music Concert
  • Hypnotic (2003; part 4 in 2007) for brass quintet; 10 min; Premiere 2003: Knox College Student Recitals
  • Confession and Meditation (2002) for brass quintet; 5 min; Premiere 2002: Knox College, New Music Concert
  • Drone! (2002) for trumpet, double bass, and drum set; 2 min
Sound Samples

        Rufus, Javier, and Sven Chase a Chicken Through a Church
           
Caitlin Hickey, trombone
            John Stanley, bass trombone

        Hypnotic Part 3
            Tom Siders, Robert Zider, trumpets
            Julie Thayer, horn
            Catherine Hickey, trombone
            Andrew Welborn, tuba

        Piano Trio #1 "The Mutant Crab and the Minotaur" Movement 4 - The Minotaur Devours The Crab
            Ying Fu, violin
            David Gerstein, cello
            Kimi Kawashima, piano

        Music for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano Movement IV - Finale
            Andre Dyachenko, clarinet
            Christine Kim, cello
            Wenli Zhou, piano

Recording engineering on Hypnotic and Music for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano by Francis X. Schmidt.

R
ecording engineering on The Mutant Crab and the Minotaur and Rufus, Javier, and Sven Chase a Chicken Through a Church by Ryan Edwards.

Photos by Ed Onecic