Works | Chronological
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View Works in alphabetical order
Categories
Solo | Duos | Trios | Quartets | Quintets | Sextets | Small ensemble (7 + players)
Music for Students | Vocal Music | Choral / Vocal Ensemble | String Orchestra (+)
Orchestra | Wind Ensemble | Arrangements
Instrumental Works
SOLO
Darkness of Prairie Sky (1995)
Bassoon
Duration: 5:00
Velour (1998)
Alto flute
Duration: 8:00
Curvilinear (2002)
Accordion
Duration: 7:00
Four Piano Pieces (2002)
I. Slightly Medieval Dance
II. Fizz…
III. Tango – ostinato
IV. And then…
Piano
Duration: 6:00
Prelude and Fugue (2007)
Piano
Duration: 2:00
Phobos and Deimos, Circling (2008)
Piano
Duration: 4:00
Artemis Sleeps (2009)
Flute
Duration: 2:00
The Jack Pine (2010)
Inspired by Tom Thomson’s 1916-17 painting, The Jack Pine
Piano
Duration: 4:45
L (2011)
A lustful piece for solo alto flute
Alto flute
Duration: 6:00
After the Rain (2011/12)
Tenor trombone
Duration: 6:20
After the Rain (2012/17)
Tuba
Duration: 6:20
Premonition (2012)
Organ
Duration: 7:00
Corybantic (2013)
Piano
Duration: 12:00
DUOS
Blue Sun (1998)
Violin, viola
Duration: 10:00
Shade (1998)
Cello, vibraphone
Duration: 8:00
Quoi??? (1998)
Piano, percussion (vibraphone, glock, 5 rototoms or tomtoms tuned C, E-flat, F, G, B-flat)
Duration: 7:00
Halcyon (2003)
Cello, piano
Duration: 7:00
Dervish (2004)
Violin, piano
Duration: 5:30
Vespertine (2005)
I. Twilight, II. Verdigris
Flute, harp
Duration: 11:00
Verdigris (2005/10)
Oboe, guitar
Duration: 4:00
Verdigris (2005/14)
Erhu, piano
Duration: 4:00
Verdigris (2005/18)
Alto flute, guitar
Duration: 4:00
half-light, somnolent rains (2006)
Piano duo
Duration: 10:00
I conversed with you in a dream (2006)
I. I conversed with you in a dream I
II. Mingled with all kinds of colours
III. A delicate fire
IV. I conversed with you in a dream II
Flute, piano
Duration: 12:30
Nightsong (2007)
Bassoon, harp
Duration: 10:40
Three Meditations on Light (2011)
I. The birds breathe the morning light
II. Bioluminescence (wine-dark sea)
III. Absence of light – gradual reawakening
Cello, harp
Duration: 16:00
Handel Mobile (2012)
Flute, harpsichord
Duration: 3:00
Petrichor (2013)
Violin, piano
Duration: 10:00
Vulpine (2013)
Violin, piano
Duration: 7:00
Torsion (2015)
Trombone, piano
Duration: 5:40
Fracas (2018)
Tenor trombone, percussion
Duration: 5:30
Serpentine Paths (2019)
Violin, cello
Duration: 9:40
TRIOS
Luminous Moth (2008)
Violin, cello, piano
Duration: 2:00
Asylum (2010)
Violin, cello, piano
Duration: 10:00
Forgiveness (2021)
Soprano, alto flute, guitar
Text: Joy Kogawa
Duration: 5:00
The uses of solitude (2023)
Flute, viola, harp
Duration: 20:00
QUARTETS
Velcro Lizards (1996)
Clarinet (doubling bass), trumpet, violin, double bass
Duration: 10:00
Bird in the Tangled Sky (1997)
Clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Duration: 15:00
Revenant (2002)
Baroque flute, Baroque violin, viola da gamba, harpsichord
Duration: 10:00
Darwin’s Walkin’ Fish Quartet (2008)
Percussion quartet
Duration: 9:00
The Violet Hour (2010)
Cello quartet
Duration: 5:00
Vermillion (2014)
String quartet
Duration: 11:00
Big Raven (2015)
String quartet
Duration: 9:30
QUINTETS
…et je danse (2004)
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, piano
Text: Arthur Rimbaud
Duration: 13:00
Writing in the Margins (2008)
A part of Marginalia: Re-envisioning Roy Kiyooka
Arr. for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Duration: 20:00
Theft (2009) 11:00
I. Water Clocks
II. Insomnia
Clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion(1)
Duration: 11:00
Night, herself (2016)
Quintet version: clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion(1)
Duration: 15:00
Unfurl (2021)
Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
Duration: 21:00
SEXTETS
Icarus, landing (2000)
Flute(pic), oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, double bass, piano, percussion(1)
Duration: 15:00
Darwin Fish (2006)
For percussion ensemble
Duration: 9:00
Undark (2016)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion(1)
Duration: 8:00
Stone’s Throw (2018)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion(1)
Duration: 8:00
Small Ensemble (7 + players)
Lacrimosa (2000)
For chamber ensemble
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion(1)
Duration: 10:00
Music of the Romantic Era (2005)
For chamber ensemble, or small orchestra
Flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, horn, bassoon, 2 pianos, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (option to perform with small orchestral string section)
Duration: 11:00
Zart (2006)
For chamber ensemble
Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, harp, percussion(1), violin, viola, cello, double bass
Duration: 14:00
Hatch (2007)
Spatialized percussion octet, with auxiliary finger cymbalists
Duration: 6:00
Sequoia (2009)
For spatialized trombone octet and percussion
6 tenor trombones, 2 bass trombones, percussion(1)
Duration: 9:30
Luft (2011/15)
Ballet suite
For large chamber ensemble
Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion(1), harp, piano, string quartet
Duration: 11:00
Salamander (2012)
For flute octet
2 pics (soloists), 6 C flutes (two doubling alto flute, two doubling bass flute)
Duration: 8:30
Music for Students
Four Piano Pieces (2002)
I. Slightly Medieval Dance
II. Fizz…
III. Tango – ostinato
IV. And then…
Piano
Duration: 6:00
Dervish (2004)
Violin, piano
Duration: 5:30
Luminous Moth (2008)
Violin, cello, piano
Duration: 2:00
Artemis Sleeps (2009)
Flute
Duration: 2:00
Vocal Music
Train (1999)
High voice, piano
Text: Alan Ashton
Duration: 6:00
Lacrimosa (2000)
For chamber ensemble
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion(1)
Duration: 10:00
Golden (2001)
For Baroque or modern strings with soprano (or baroque or modern oboe)
7 vln parts, 2 vla, 1 vc, 1 violone/db + soprano/oboe
Note: soloist and strings play auxiliary percussion
Duration: 11:00
Trakl-lied (2003)
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, flute, viola, double bass, perc(2)
Text: Georg Trakl, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Duration: 10:00
…et je danse (2004)
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, piano
Text: Arthur Rimbaud
Duration: 13:00
Amore (2005)
Voice and piano
Text: Anonymous Latin aphorism
Duration: 4:50
Versions for coloratura, soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone
August 16, 1916 (2008)
Voice and piano
Text: Frank Faulknor
Duration: 7:00
Involuntary Love Songs (2008)
I. Thaw, II. Matches, III. Script
Voice, piano
Text: Alan Ashton
Duration: 14:00
Versions for coloratura, soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone
Cubistique (…ascending a staircase) (2012)
Voice and piano
Text: Tom Cone
Duration: 4:30
Somewhere Along the Line (2012)
Voice, piano
Text: Tom Cone
Duration: 6:00
Perruqueries (2013)
Six songs about wigs, and the people who love them
I. Nursery Rhyme
II. Galina Vishnevskaya
III. Albert
IV. Andy Warhol – October 30, 1985
V. Bobby Hull
VI. One N Short of a Wing
Soprano, baritone, piano
Text: Bill Richardson
Duration: 23:30
Forgiveness (2021)
Soprano, alto flute, guitar
Text: Joy Kogawa
Duration: 5:00
Choral / Vocal Ensemble
Exaudi (2004)
Vocal ensemble (SSSATBarB) with cello solo
Duration: 9:00
One Black Spike (2008)
SATB choir or 4 solo voices
Text: Jocelyn Morlock
Duration: 3:30
Absalon fili mi (2009)
TTBB choir
Text: 2 Samuel 18:33
Duration: 5:00
Let (2009)
SSAA choir
Text: Alan Ashton
Duration: 5:00
An die Musik (2015)
TTBB choir
Text: Frank von Schober
Duration: 4:00
String Orchestra (+)
Golden (2001)
For Baroque or modern strings with soprano (or baroque or modern oboe)
7 vln parts, 2 vla, 1 vc, 1 violone/db + soprano/oboe
Note: soloist and strings play auxiliary percussion
Duration: 11:00
Solace (2001/05)
String orchestra (or chamber strings), violin solo, cello solo
Duration: 11:00
Disquiet (2006)
86442 / perc(1)
Duration: 4:30
Nostalgia (2007/12)
String orchestra: 66442
Duration: 14:00
Inseparable (2009)
String orchestra, two trumpets, gongs (1 player)
2 trumpets / perc(1) / 66442
Duration: 3:00
Orchestra
Oiseaux bleus et sauvages (2003)
3(pic)222 / 4200 / pno, hp, perc(2) / str
Duration: 11:00
Music of the Romantic Era (2005)
For chamber ensemble, or small orchestra
Flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, horn, bassoon, 2 pianos, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (option to perform with small orchestral string section)
Duration: 11:00
Cobalt (2009)
For two violin soloists and orchestra
2222 / 4221 / pno, hp / str /2 violin soloists
Duration: 7:13
Aeromancy (2011)
Concerto for two cellos
0200 / 2000 / perc(1) / 66432 / 2 solo cellos
Duration: 14:20
Ornithomancy (2013)
Concerto for flute
1111 / 1110 / timp, pno, hp, perc(1) / str
Duration: 15:00
CRUSH (2014)
For orchestra and spoken-word poet
Text by Shane Koyczan
1111 / 1110 / Perc(1) / str
That Tingling Sensation (2014/17)
3(alto, pic)222 / 4331 / timp, pno, hp, perc(2) / str
Duration: 10:00
My Name is Amanda Todd (2015)
Dedicated to Amanda and Carol Todd, two heroes
222(Ebcl)2 / 4231 / timp, perc(2) / str
Duration: 11:30
Corvid (2016)
2222 / 2211 / str
Earthfall (2016)
3332 / 4321 / perc(3) / pno, hp /str
Duration: 14:30
Interview with Victoria Symphony: HERE
Hullabaloo (2016)
Sesquie for Canada’s 150th
2222 / 4331 / timp, perc(2)
Duration: 2:00
Lucid Dreams (2017)
For cello soloist and orchestra
1111 / 2000 / timp, perc(2) / hp / str / solo cello
Duration: 20:00
Night, herself (2017)
3(pic)22(Ebcl)2 / 2200 / timp, perc(2), pno / str
Duration: 15:00
O Rose (2018)
3(pic)232(cbn) / 4321 / timp, perc(3) / str
Duration: 10:00
Arcadia (2019)
For spatialized large ensemble
221(Ebcl)1 / 2221 / perc(2) / 11111
Strange Loop (2019)
3(pic)222(cbn) / 4221 / timp, perc(2) / str
Duration: 6:00
Interloper (2020)
1223(cbn) / 2200 / timp, perc(1) / str
Duration: 14:00
Wind Ensemble
Ned the Neck (2011)
A reptilian piece for wind ensemble (Grade 2.5 – 3)
3 (picc (opt.), 3fl, ob, bsn, 3cl, b.cl, asax, tsax, bsax, 3tpt, 2hn, 3tbn, bar/euph, tba, db (opt.), timp + 4 perc
Duration: 4:00
Arrangements
Maurice Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin (arr. 2006)
I. Prélude
II. Fugue
III. Forlane
IV. Rigaudon
V. Menuet
VI. Toccata
Flute, viola, harp
Duration: 25:20
Claude Debussy: Ballade (arr. 2007)
Flute, viola, harp
Duration: 7:00
Maurice Ravel: Minuet Antique (arr. 2007)
Flute, viola, harp
Duration: 5:30