Music for small ensembles (2–10 musicians)
3 Dances for Four Viols
- Pavan
- Galliard
- Gaillarde Ancienne
(Movements I & II: 2022, Movement III: 2023), c. 5′ in three movements for four-part viol consort.
Recommended instruments are Treble, 2 Tenors, and Bass, or; Treble, Tenor, 2 Basses.
Premiere: First and Third Movements, Rock Hall at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 19, 2024, by Temple University Early Music Ensemble under the direction of Heather Miller Lardin.
Inspired by and modeled on Renaissance dance music, incorporating influences from Indian classical music.
Fantasia à 5 in B Minor
- Prelude
- Interlude
- Finale
(2023) c. 10′ in three movements for flute, clarinet, horn, violin, and double bass
Song on a Text by Pundri Sheshadri
(2023) c. 5′, for voice and basso continuo. Text in public domain by Pundri Sheshadri from Vanished Hours (1925).
The basso continuo section is composed of a keyboard instrument and a sustaining bass instrument; exact instrumentation left to the performers.
Brass Quintet
- Lively
- Suspension
- currently under revision
- Frantic
(2022, rev. 2025), c. 12′; in four movements for 2 trumpets, horn, tenor trombone, and tuba
Dawn of the Second Day
(2022), c. 8′ for flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello
Commissioned by the Philadelphia Student Composers’ Project, sponsored by the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.
Premiere: Rock Hall at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 13, 2022, by Hub New Music
A one-movement, sonata-form
Amorphous
(2022), c. 5′ for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion (1 player)
Premiere: Rock Hall at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 12, 2022, by Temple New Music Ensemble
Listen to Amorphous
Society
(2020) open instrumentation, four to ten musicians. Duration up to the performers.
Oboe Quartet in D Minor
(2019) for oboe and string trio
- Andante e grave – Allegro con moto
- Intrada: Misterioso – Rondo: Allegro giocoso
Composed for and premiered by:
- Amanda Spratt, oboe
- Uli Speth, violin
- Nicole Nissel, viola
- Julia Corso, violoncello
at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, December 03, 2019
Composed as a companion piece to W. A. Mozart’s Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370