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Sonatina

Contemporary classical music for piano


March 2025

aurichalcum solemnis

Contemporary classical music for brass ensemble



March 2025


procession

Quiet Contemporary chamber music for vibraphone, cello and oboe.

March 2025

Photo: Paul Hennessey.
Arches at Notre Dame, Paris 022525
All rights reserved.


templum

Contemporary classical music for small ensemble comprising woodwinds, koto, and synthesizer

(re-released March 2025)

prelude - Winter 2025

Contemporary classical music for piano.


Photo credit:  Paul Hennessey: Seats in the Luxembourg Cathedral 022725,
Taken at Notre Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg City.
All rights reserved

appropiare 

appropiare
(revision 1)

Chamber music for bowed vibraphone, flugelhorn, and euphonium

Original (supersed) version

approaches

Chamber music for bowed vibraphone

propria





Chamber music for Violas and Cellos

February 2025

accretions

Contemporary classical music for string quintet

Violin, 2 Violas, Cello, Contrabass

September 2023

remnants






Contemporary classical music for chamber ensemble and electronics

July 2023

waking




Contemporary classical music


Chamber Music for
String Ensemble

June 2023

luctus antrum

Contemporary Classical / Electronic Music


Chamber ensemble, electronics, electric guitars

May 2023

Martini with Mancini

Quiet jazz piano piece

dwell

Contemporary Classical / Electronic Music


Conversations


Conversation 1
Chamber music for pianos, electronics, strings, and brass
January 2023


Conversation 2
Short chamber piece for 2 pianos and classical guitar
January 2023


Conversation 3
Chamber music for pianos and strings
March 2023

Contemporary Classical / Chamber Music / Electronics 

geshem (rain)

Contemporary classical chamber music for multiple pianos 

before or just after

April

Intimate chamber music for piano, violas, celli and contrabass.

An elegy for Alan Monasch, of blessed memory 

1st Movement. Lamentation

2nd Movement. Elevation

3rd Movement. Verklärung

4th Movement. Condensation

5th Movement.  Thin silence

Geisterkammermusik

   זיכרונה לברכה   Dedicated to my Mother Esther Henry (1920-2019)

seamless

Minimalist music for string ensemble
My most minimalist composition to date.
October 2021

Designed to be listened to on repeat (because you can never step in the same riverrun twice).  

traces

Music for ensemble of pianos, harpsichord, cimbalom, electric celeste, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos 

Etudes (September 2021)

impromptu

Contemplative electronic composition 

ruach

there is not a word in my tongue

Contemplative electronic composition
(ref. Psalm 139:4)

three apophoses

ambitus

Chamber music for woodwind ensemble and pianos

softsoft

softsoft
the carpet maker

fleeting after sweet wine

 

at once now again

as candle once to flame allied

to breeze implores go round


 ≐

ζ 

erev

Necessarily

it ain't necessarily it ain't necessarily so but it ain't necessarily not it ain't necessarily so but it is

Argentum

In honor of
Horace Silver

Martini in Manhattan

Chorale

Redentor

Loose interpretation of a Duke Pearson classic

ein dunkler Walzer

EPs

Limina Suite:  Faceted Music


small towers of caring light

Precantation

Clerestory

HornThing