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COMPOSITIONS

MUSIC FOR FILM/THEATRE

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENTS

Chamber Music

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2026 HBO, I’m Ready!

4’ for piccolo, violin, electric guitar, horn in F, keyboard
Commissioned/premiered by Composer’s Concordance for their Stand-up/Get-up! concert on May 22, 2026.

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2025 Secret Lives

6’ for saxophone and string quartet
Commissioned by Composers Concordance, premiered by Todd Rewoldt and the CompCord String Quartet in January 2025

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2025 Her Memory is Liquid

12’ for violoncello and piano
commissioned by Helen Gagel, premiered by Wurtz-Berger Duo on New Music
Chicago Presents, July 2025

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2025 Song of Survival

5’ for flute, clarinet in Bb, alto saxophone, violoncello
Commissioned by ACM for the opening of The CheckOut, premiered by the Amos Gillespie Quartet on September 13, 2025.

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2024 Hymn to the White Building

5’ for flute, tenor saxophone, violin, violoncello
Commissioned by Access Contemporary Music for the series “Songs about Buildings and Moods”

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2023 Blue

15’ for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, bass, piano, percussion
Commissioned by Access Contemporary Music

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2022 String Quartet No. 3

25’ Commissioned by American Music Project, premiered 6/5/22 by Kontras Quartet

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2021 Chambers

18’ for violoncello, piano
Premiered at the Ear Taxi Festival 10/2/21 by Wurtz-Berger Duo

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2020 Welles Park, Party Cakes, Fountain

3’ for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, bass, piano, percussion
Commissioned by Access Contemporary Music
Premiered September 2020, recorded on the Gesso audio tour app by Palomar Ensemble

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2018 Trio: Winter

8’ for flute, violoncello and piano
Premiered January 2018 by Calumet Chamber Musicians

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2016 Songs and Dances

15’ for violoncello and piano
Commissioned by the Ear Taxi Festival 2016, Premiered 10/9/16 by Wurtz-Berger
Duo

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2015 Childish Music

12’ for alto saxophone and piano
Commissioned by Amos Gillespie Premiered 4/7/15 by Amos Gillespie, saxophone,
Amy Wurtz, piano

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2014 Piano Quintet

53’ string quartet and piano
Commissioned by American Music Project, premiered 10/5/2014 by Chicago Q
Ensemble and Amy Wurtz, piano

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2010 La: Suite

33’ for flute and piano
Premiered 3/26/10 by Calumet Chamber Musicians

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2010 String Quartet No. 2

24’ Premiered and recorded 10/28/11 by Chicago Q Ensemble

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2007 String Quartet No. 1

26’ Premiered and recorded 10/28/2011 by Chicago Q Ensemble

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2004 Ekhlas (pure)

15’ for clarinet, piano and 2 percussionists
Commissioned and premiered by Zeitgeist in May 2004

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Vocal Music

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2020 Johnny Appleseed, SATB/Piano, 7'

Commissioned by Walter Payton Concert Choir. Premiere delayed by Covid.

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2017 Mi-mi, SSAATTBB, 5'

Recorded by Bella Voce.

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2004, Message from the Soul, SATB, soloists, Narrator, Chamber Orchestra, 70'

Premiered in Düsseldorf, Germany. Text by Molana Shahmaghsoud Angha.

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2003, Rosefreeze, Song Cycle for Alto and Piano, 12'

Text by Serena Johnson, Commissioned by the poet.

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2001 Mariposa en arrullo, Song Cycle for Mezzo Soprano and piano, 25'

Awarded 1st place in the National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Competition.

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2000 Five Songs after Rumi, Soprano and Woodwind Quintet, 20'

Poetry translated by Coleman Barks.

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Music for Music Film/Theatre

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1997 The Finn King's Daughter, Soloists, Narrator, Clarinet, 'Cello, 27'

Libretto by Amy Wurtz.

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2000, The Ritual, Piano and Organ, 12'

Film by Ning Li. Score recorded by Wurtz.

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2003, The Wives of Henry VIII, keyboard, percussion, guitar, woodwinds, 70'

Incidental music for the production by 15Head: A Theater Lab.

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2011 The Mermaid, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, 'Cello, Piano, Percussion, 8'

Film by Osamu Tezuka. Commissioned by ACM and premiered at the Sount of Silent Film Festival.

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2019 Hall of Fishes, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, 'Cello, Piano, Percussion, 9'

Film by Jenifer Boles. Commissioned by ACM and premiered at the Sound of Silent Film Festival

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Orchestral Music

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2013, Passage, 13'

Commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Composers Orchestra.

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2013, Passage, 13'

Commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Composers Orchestra.

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2013, Passage, 13'

Commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Composers Orchestra.

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2013, Passage, 13'

Commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Composers Orchestra.

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2013, Passage, 13'

Commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Composers Orchestra.

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Works for Solo Instruments

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2001 Nirvan

25’ for piano, commissioned and premiered Spring 2000 by Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi

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2007 Meditation

15’ Premiered Fall 2007

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2015 Confessions

13’ Premiered October 2015

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2026 Cyclature, 26 Cycles for Solo Piano

2 hr. 40 min

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2025 Waterfalling

5’ for piano with fixed media, commissioned by Composer’s Concordance

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2025 Ballroom Suite

15’ for solo piano, commissioned by Bob Horner

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2024 Piano Sonata: Mothers and Daughters

23’ for solo piano, commissioned by Linda Winke, premiered Fall September 2024

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2020 I Can’t Breathe

6’ for solo piano, premiered 6/25/20

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