COMPOSITIONS

CHAMBER MUSIC

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

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MUSIC FOR FILM/THEATRE

WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENTS

Chamber Music

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.

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

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

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

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

PDF | $30

PHYSICAL | $40

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.

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

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”

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

2023 Blue

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

PDF | $50

PHYSICAL | $60

2022 String Quartet No. 3

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

PDF | $40

PHYSICAL | $50

String Quartet No. 3

00:00 / 32:25

2021 Chambers

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

PDF | $30

PHYSICAL | $40

Chambers

00:00 / 18:17

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

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

Welles Park

00:00 / 04:58

Party Cakes

00:00 / 01:30

Fountain

00:00 / 01:44

2018 Trio: Winter

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

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

2016 Songs and Dances

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

PDF | $30

PHYSICAL | $40

2015 Childish Music

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

PDF | $25

PHYSICAL | $35

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

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

Score only, for parts please contact Amy.

2010 La: Suite

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

PDF | $30

PHYSICAL | $40

2010 String Quartet No. 2

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

PDF | $40

PHYSICAL | $50

2007 String Quartet No. 1

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

PDF | $40

PHYSICAL | $50

2004 Ekhlas (pure)

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

PDF | $40

PHYSICAL | $50

Orchestral Music

2021 Emome

11’ Commissioned and premiered 9/25/21 by Chicago Composers Orchestra,
Homeroom Chicago and 10x10 Project

PDF | $100

PHYSICAL | $200

Wurtz-Emome

00:00 / 13:57

2015 Our Lives Matter

11’ for string orchestra
Commissioned and premiered 2/21/16 by the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra

PDF | $55

PHYSICAL | $100

2013 Passage

13’ Commissioned and premiered 5/30/13 by the Chicago Composers’ Orchestra

PDF | $75

PHYSICAL | $125

Vocal Music

2023 Come Through the Door

11’ SATB, piano
Original text
Commission supported by grant from DCASE, premiered 6/20/23 by Friendship
Village Choir

PDF | $5

PHYSICAL | $8

2020 Johnny Appleseed

6’ SATB, piano
Original text
Commissioned by Walter Payton College Prep Concert Choir

PDF | $4

PHYSICAL | $6

2017 Mi-mi

5’ SSAATTBB (a cappella)
Original text
Recorded October 2016 by Bella Voce, Andrew Davis, Conductor

PDF | $4

PHYSICAL | $6

2004 Message from the Soul

70’ SATB Chorus with soloists, narrator, chamber orchestra, percussion quartet
text by Molana Shahmaghsoud Angha
Premiered 2/7/2007

PDF | $175

PHYSICAL | $300

2003 Rosefreeze

12’ mezzo-soprano, piano
Text by Serena Johnson
Commissioned by the poet

PDF | $10

PHYSICAL | $20

2001 Mariposa en arrullo

25’ mezzo soprano, piano
Text by Pablo Neruda
Awarded 1st Place, NFMC Beyer Composition Competition,
premiered 6/19/17

PDF | $10

PHYSICAL | $20

Mariposa en arrullo

00:00 / 27:41

2000 Five Songs after Rumi

20’ soprano, wind quintet
Poetry by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Premiered May 2000

PDF | $40

PHYSICAL | $75

Music for Music Film/Theatre

2026 Tangled, my hair

3’ for flute, alto flute, piccolo, clarinet in Bb, violin, violoncello, drum set, piano
Commissioned by Access Contemporary Music for the Sound of Silent Film
Festival to accompany the film “Tangled”

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

2025 The Drop Contains the Whole

8’ for flute, alto flute, piccolo, clarinet in Bb, violin, violoncello, percussion
Commissioned by Access Contemporary Music for the Sound of Silent Film Festival 2025 20th Anniversary to accompany the film "In una Goccia” by Valeria Weerasinghe

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

2022 The Trader

11’ for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, bass, piano, percussion
Commissioned by the Sound of Silent Film Festival to accompany the film by M. Diestro and S. Belinchon,
premiered 4/16/22 by Palomar Ensemble

PDF | $30

PHYSICAL | $40

2019 Hall of Fishes

9’ for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, bass, piano, percussion
Commissioned by the Sound of Silent Film Festival to accompany the film by Jenifer Boles,
premiered 4/20/19 by Palomar Ensemble

PDF | $20

PHYSICAL | $30

2011 The Mermaid

8’ flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, bass, piano, percussion
Commissioned by the Sound of Silent Film Festival to accompany the film by Osama Tezuka,
premiered 4/1/11 by Palomar Ensemble

Please contact Amy for score/parts.

2000 The Ritual

15’ for piano, organ
film by Ning Li

Please contact Amy for score/parts.

1997 The Finn King's Daughter

27’ Chamber Operetta for narrator, soprano, alto, tenor, clarinet in Bb, violoncello
Original text
Premiered Spring 1997

Please contact Amy for score/parts.