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Pieces for Traditional Japanese Instruments

Nod to Fellow Travelers - solo shakuhachi - 8 minutes

           Premiered July 23, 2020 by the composer

           2020 So Percussion Summer Institute

Hymn/Frost - for mezzo soprano or 2.1 shakuhachi and fixed media - 4 minutes

Siege of Cranes - three 1.8 shakuhachi (November 2018) - 8 minutes

Wild Human - solo shakuhachi - 6 minutes

           Premiered by the composer, October 21st, 2018 - Irma Freeman Center - Pittsburgh, PA

Nameless Sands - solo ichigenkin (June 2018) - ca. 6 minutes

          Written for Issui Minegishi

Kezuroukai – amplified sho (Sept. 2017) – 6 min

         Written for Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival and Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, PA

         Premiered by Chatori Shimizu – University of Pittsburgh – Jan. 13, 2018

Splintered Ringing - solo shakuhachi (July 2017) - ca. 6 min

Splintered Ringing  – two shakuhachi (June 2017) – ca. 6 min

         Written for Elizabeth Brown and Ralph Samuelson “Shakuhachi and Ichigenkin: Discovery in a Single Tone” 2017 Tour

         Premiered by Elizabeth Brown and Ralph Samuelson – Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ – Sept. 28, 2017

Kintsugi– 1.8 shakuhachi and clarinet (any key), or two shakuhachi  (May 2017) – 30-40 min

        Upcoming Premiere by Emily Cook (Clarinet) and Devon Osamu Tipp (shakuhachi) -  Spring 2019

Fünf Träumen – 13 string koto (April 2017) – 8 min

        Premiered by Katherine Whatley May 2, 2017, Kent Hall, Columbia University, NY

Self Portrait (Oct. 2016) – 1.8 shakuhachi, piano, prepared viola, prepared violoncello, prepared contrabass – ca. 10 min

        Premiered by Adam Robinson (shakuhachi), Humay Gasimzade (piano), Allyson Clare (viola), Brian Sanders (violoncello), Emilio Guarino (contrabass) Nov. 4,         2016, Scholes Street Studios, Brooklyn NY 

 

Ozymandias (Aug. 2016) for gagaku sho (tuned A=430) and accordion – 7 min

        Co-commissioned by Zak Hap Seligman, Marika Terao, and Henry Liang

        Premiered by Zak Hap Seligman (sho) and Dr. Robert Young MacMahon (accordion), July 28, 2017, American Accordionists Association Masterclasses at                 Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC

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