List of Works (Scores for purchase)

All music is published by This Burning City Editions.

Please write to burningcityorchestra@gmail.com for all commission, rental, and purchase inquiries

 

Featured Works

 

  • Waiting for Proof: Toxicity Study and Remix, for solo violin (2022), 7’
         - Written for and premiered by Domenic Salerni at Washington Musica Viva, Washington DC  

score         watch (video)

 

  • They Always Try to Tell You Who You Are, for clarinet and percussion duo (2021), 12’
         - Commissioned and premiered by Duo Avanzando (David Carter and Ricardo Coelho de Souza) at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Tulsa, OK  

score         watch (video)

 

  • The One for Whom the Song Dreams, prelude for solo piano (2014), 5’
         - Premiered by Riko Higuma at the New Music on the Point Festival  

score         watch (video)

 

  • Impressions of Manuela Sáenz for bassoon and orchestra (2018), 15′ - 2+picc 3/eng 3/bscl. 2, 4331, timp, 3 perc, hp, str
         - written for and premiered by bassoonist Lia Uribe and Dominique Røyem and the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra                     

score          watch (video excerpt)

 

  • The Defiant Poet: Elegy in Memory of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2017), 10′ - 3/picc 3/eng 3/BsCl. 3, 4331, timp, 4 perc, hp, str
         - written for and premiered by Andrés Franco and Tulsa Signature Symphony at the Yevgeny Yevtushenko Memorial Concert; Recording by Jiří Petrdlík and the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, available on Navona Records

score          listen (audio recording)

 

 

Orchestra

 

  • We Persist, for orchestra (2020), 5’ - 2+picc 3/eng 3/bscl. 3, 4331, timp, 3 perc, hp, str
         - Written for and premiered by Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Virtual Orchestra  

score         watch (video)

 

  • Impressions of Manuela Sáenz for bassoon and orchestra (2018), 15′ - 2+picc 3/eng 3/bscl. 2, 4331, timp, 3 perc, hp, str
         - written for and premiered by bassoonist Lia Uribe and Dominique Røyem and the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra                     

score          watch (video excerpt)

 

  • Others (2017-2018), 8′  - 3/picc 3/eng 3/BsCl. 3, 4331, timp, 3 perc, hp, str
       - commissioned and premiered by Andrés Franco and Tulsa Signature Symphony

score          watch (video excerpt)

 

  • The Defiant Poet: Elegy in Memory of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2017), 10′ - 3/picc 3/eng 3/BsCl. 3, 4331, timp, 4 perc, hp, str
         - written for and premiered by Andrés Franco and Tulsa Signature Symphony at the Yevgeny Yevtushenko Memorial Concert; Recording by Jiří Petrdlík and the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, available on Navona Records

score          listen (audio recording)

 

  • Farewell Fanfare (2017), 3′ – 2222, 4220, timp, str
         - written for Bruce Sorrell and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra (premiere TBA)
  • Killing the Past III for orchestra (2014), 8’ (currently unavailable)
         - written for Eugene Birman and the Voice of Argentina Festival and premiered by Cayenna Ponchione and Christ Church Sinfonietta, Oxford, UK
  • Lullaby for double bass and orchestra (2013), 20’ (currently unavailable)
         - written for double bassist Kurt Muroki in memory of Louisa Womack – unpremiered
  • Sunrise for String Orchestra (2011; arr.) 10’
         - arranged for and premiered by The Jönköping Sinfonietta at Smålands Musik & Teater, Jönköping, Sweden

Large Ensemble

score         Listen (audio)

 

    • Electroacoustic and Fixed Media
      • A Prayer for Those Who Look Away, for cello and fixed media (2020), 5.5’                                                                                – Commissioned for and premiered by Inbal Segev at OK Electric 2020, Tulsa, OK  

      score         watch (video)

       

      score         Listen (audio)

       

      • What Sweaters are for in the Summer, part 1 (see “20+ Songs for Burning City Orchestra” in the “Vocal/Opera/Art Song/Choral” category, 2015) 
             - co-composed with Jeremy Forbis and Timo Andres, as recorded on the Burning City Orchestra Album 

      Vocal/Opera/Art Song/Choral -

      • (Sub)Liminal for SATB choir (2017), 3′
              – Commissioned by Annina Collier for TEDx, and premiered at the Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College by Laura Cowan  and  the TCC Concert Choir
      • Centennial Song Cycle, for voice and guitar (2016), 10’
             - commissioned by Congregation B’nai Emunah for its 100th anniversary and premiered by the composer, Tulsa
      • The Morning After, opera scene, for mezzo soprano, cello and piano (2011), 6’
              – written for and premiered by Seth Gilman and Detour New Music at the Gershwin Hotel, Manhattan
      • Struggle for soprano and piano (2007), 3.5’
             - premiered by Gábor Káli and Csilla Csővári at a FUBIS Concert at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
      • The Little Mermaid, for soprano and piano (2007), 2’
             - premiered by Kristina Weaver and Peter Dugan at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation 2007 Fellows Retreat at The University of Maryland, College Park
      • “Darkness” for SATB Choir (2005), 3’
             - premiered by the composer and students at The University of Tulsa

       

      Small Ensemble

      Quintets -

      • Killing the Past II, for piano quintet (2014), 12’
             - premiered by Dennis Kim and members of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Tampere, Finland
      • Mitosis, for French horn, piano, violin, viola and cello (2010), 10’
             - premiered by Brian Holman and DETOUR Ensemble at Galapagos, Brooklyn
      • Barely a Tango, for clarinet, flute, piano, violin, cello (2008), 6’
             - premiered by the composer, Domenica Fossati, Christopher Bush, Carol Minor, Patti Kilroy, and Leat Sabbah at the composer’s               MM recital

      Trios and Quartets -

    • Frontline, for clarinet, cello, and piano (2021), 12′
           - Written for and premiered by Fred Jacobowitz, Bonnie Thron, and Carl Banner at the Washington Musica Viva, Washington DC

score         watch (video)

 

score         watch (video)

 

  • Violin Quartet (2017), 8′
    •      - written for Adrianna Mateo, unpremiered

 

 

  • A Ghostly Blues, for piano trio (2016; originally part of Achilles Heel trio), 5′
    - premiered by Chelsea Wong, Stephanie Skor, and Ben Swartz at SICPP Iditarod, New England Conservatory

score         listen (audio)

 

  • Achilles Heel, for piano trio (2015-2016), 20’
          – commissioned by the Oklahoma chapter of the Music Teachers National Association for the state conference, and written for and premiered by Trio Tulsa

Contact for score and recording

 

  • Past Lives, for oboe quartet (2016), (2017; arr. Saxophone Quartet - unpremiered) 8′
         - commissioned by Sarah Jury Evans in honor of Nancy Ambrose King, and premiered at Oklahoma State University Oboe Day

 

 

 

    • Vaporization, for percussion quartet (2004), 2’
           - premiered by Jonathan Haas and the New York University Percussion Ensemble at Frederick Loewe Theater

 

Duos and solo

 

  • Tomorrow We Breathe, for Bassoon and Cajón duo (2020), 3′
         - Written for Lia Uribe and premiered by Duo 337 (Bassoonist Jacqui Wilson and percussionist Chris Wilson)

score          watch (recording/video currently unavailable)

 

    • When Our Home is Gone, for solo violin (2019), 4′
           - commissioned and premiered by violinist Dennis Kim

score          watch (video)

 

  • A Prayer for Those Who Look Away, for solo cello and fixed media (2020), 5′
         - commissioned and premiered by cellist Inbal Segev at the 2020 OK Electric Festival

score          watch (video)

  • A Prayer for Those Who Look Away, for solo cello (2020), 5′
         - commissioned by cellist Inbal Segev and premiered by Diane Chaplin

score (contact for score)          watch (video)

 

  • Nocturne for Bill, for solo cello (2018), 4′
         - commissioned by Marcia Brueggenjohann through Signature Symphony, for her father’s 80th birthday, and premiered by cellist Erica Parker 

 

 

  • Breaking the Surface, for oboe and piano duo (2014), (2016; arr. Soprano Sax and piano), 8’
         - commissioned by the International Double Reed Society 2014 Conference for, and premiered by oboist Rob Botti and pianist Martha Locker at Subculture; Soprano Sax and piano version written for and premiered by Ken Radnofsky and Thom Weaver at Boston University Tanglewood Institute

score          watch (video)

 

score         listen (audio)

 

 

  • The One for Whom the Song Dreams, prelude for solo piano (2014), 5’                                                                    (2012; originally for cello and piano),
    Piano version premiered by Riko Higuma at the New Music on the Point Festival                      
    Cello and piano version premiered by Joe Goering and Dan Rorke at the Bowdoin Music               Festival

score         watch (video)

 

score          listen (audio)

 

  • Tango Variations: 3 short movements for double bass duet (2009), 7’
    (2010; arr. for cello and bass
    - premiered by Matt Rosenthall and Mathew Weber at the Bowdoin Music Festival;
    - Cello and Bass version premiered by Juventas new Music at Boston Conservatory, Boston

 

  • Between Words, encore for solo cello (2013), 3’
         - premiered by cellist Matt Magerkurth at the University of Tulsa Summer Composition Seminar; recorded by Susanna Mendlow for her upcoming CD release

 

score          listen (1st movement)           listen (2nd + 3rd movement)

 

 

  • Etiquette for solo cello (2009), 8’
    (2013; arr. for solo violin)                                                        (2011; arr. for solo viola)                                                                  - cello version written for and premiered by Leat Sabbah at Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), and recorded by Tess Remy-Schumacher on “Music for Peace Vol. II (XOLO); Violin version premiered by Ronnamarie Jensen, at composer’s Composer Portrait concert (Tulsa); Viola version premiered by Marc Sabbah