Works & Audio
Chronological Works List:
PDF File | Word Document
-If interested in full scores, recordings, and parts, please contact Laura-
Orchestral
Mercurial Tempers (2008-09), for orchestra, 8 min.
(Revision of Thesis for Master of Music in Composition, formerly called Anemoi)PDF Score Excerpts | Program Note
Blooming Lavender (2007), for symphony orchestra, 2 min.
Audio | PDF Score | Program Note
- Written for Kids Compose 2006-07
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Arrangement of melodies by elementary students:
Sarah Williams and Agnes Zhu. -
Premiered Feb. 2007.
Indiana University Symphony Orchestra,
Steven Smith, conductor. Indiana University.
Illusions (2005), for orchestra, 12 min. Program Note
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Reading Session, December 2005
West Chester University Symphony Orchestra
Chorus With Ensemble
In Vision I Roamed (2008) for SATB chorus and 9 instruments, 6 min. Audio Excerpt | PDF Score Excerpt
Program Note & Text
Text by Thomas Hardy
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Premiered Nov. 2008, Indiana University, Masters Recital
Fawzi Haimor, conductor - Selected as a finalist for the 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
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Selected for "Composing New Works For Voice": Workshop with Sven-David Sandström
Indiana University
July 29-Aug. 2, 2008
- read by the Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble under Carmen Telléz, Oct. 2008
Chamber
Kaleidoscopic Shifts (2010), for fl./alto fl., cl/bass cl., perc., pno., vn., vc, 5:30 min. Audio Excerpt |PDF Score Excerpt | Program Note
Strings (2009), for saxophone quartet, 9 min. PDF Score | Program Note
- written for the Zzyzx Saxophone Quartet
Different Sorts (2008), Duo for violin and guitar, 10 min. PDF Score Excerpts | Program Note
- Lively, Rock-Feel
- Fragments and Nuances Audio Excerpt
- Patchwork
- Improvisation Audio Excerpt
- Canonic, Streaming Audio Excerpt
- Commissioned by violinist Liana Gourdjia and guitarist Guido Sánchez
- Premiered Nov. 2008, Indiana University, Masters Recital
Conglomerations, Fanfare for brass quintet (2007-08), 3 min. Program Note
- Premiered Nov. 2008, Indiana University, Masters Recital
Chasing Echoes (2007), for five pianos, 5 min. Program Note
- Commissioned by the West Chester University Piano Ensemble
Sneaky Exponential (2007), for trumpet, trombone, percussion, bass, 5 min.
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Written for the IU Hammer and Nail Project:
Composer/Choreographer Collaboration
Choreography by Beth Rodriguez - Premiered April 2007, The Waldron Center, Bloomington
- Performed November 2007, Comstock Hall, University of Louisville
Camaïeu (2007), for clarinet, horn, marimba, and cello, 10 min. Audio Excerpt | PDF Score Excerpt | Program Note
- Premiered April 2008, Composition Recital, Indiana University
- Performed November 2008, Masters Recital, Indiana University
Color Phases (2006), for five pianos, 5 min.
- Commissioned by the West Chester University Piano Ensemble
- Premiered April 2006, Senior Recital, West Chester University
Contemplations (2005) for saxophone quartet, 7 min. Audio Excerpt | Program Note
- Premiered April 2005, Saxfest, West Chester University
- Performed April 2006, Senior Recital, West Chester University
Looking Forward (2005), for violin and cello, 5 min Audio Excerpt | Program Note
- Reading session, January 2006, Network for New Music
Voice
Texts by Emily Dickinson Program Note & Text
- Their height in heaven comforts not Audio
- I felt a funeral in my brain Audio
- Except the heaven had come so near Audio
- Sleep is supposed to be Audio
- Premiered Nov. 2005, New Music Concert, West Chester University
- Performed April 2006, Senior Recital, West Chester University
Electroacoustic
Warped (2007-08) for alto saxophone and electronics, 5 min. Audio Excerpt | Score available from Dorn Publications| Program Note
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Premiered Jan. 2008, Computer Music Studio recital, Indiana University
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Performed:
- 2008 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 2008 - Nov. 2008, Masters Recital, Indiana University
- Feb. 2009, Midwest Composers Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Mar. 2009, International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project (WEALR), California State University- Fullerton
- Apr. 2009, SEAMUS National Conference, Sweetwater Sound Campus, Fort Wayne, IN
- Nov, 2009, Composition Showcase, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- To be performed March 2010, New Music Festival, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
- 2008 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference,
Tranquil InDensity (2007), 6 min. Audio | Program Note
- To be premiered Apr. 2010, SEAMUS National Conference, St. Cloud University, St. Cloud, MN
Pure Distortion (2006), 4 min. Audio | Program Note
Solo
Stray (2009) for classical guitar, 3 min.
Undulations (2008) for cello and piano, 3 min.
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Performed by Bill Meyer in cello master class with Sharon Robinson,
Indiana University, April 2008
Prelude (2007), for solo piano, 3 min.
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Premiered April 2007, Elaine Lee, pianist
Students of Don Freund and Jean-Louis Haguenauer Recital
Tangents (2006) for solo piano, 8 min. Audio Excerpt | PDF Score Excerpt | Program Note
- Premiered Feb. 2007 at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, University of Chicago.
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Performed April 2007, Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw, pianist
Composition Recital, Indiana University -
Performed April 2007, Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw, pianist
Students of Don Freund and Jean-Louis Haguenauer Recital
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Performed Nov. 2008, Bethany Pietroniro, Masters Recital,
Indiana University
Fast-forward (2006), for solo alto saxophone, 8 min.
- Premiered March 2006, New Music Concert, West Chester University
Theatre
Incidental Music for:
An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Fontaine Syer
Performance by the Indiana University Theatre Department
Feb. - Mar. 2009
Opening - Ballroom Waltz Audio
Act I - II Audio
Act II Ending Audio
Act III Opening Audio
Act III- IV Audio
Ending Audio
Curtain Call Audio
Arrangements / Transcriptions
Le Api (2007) for alto saxophone and piano, 2 min.
- Written for Otis Murphy, Original music by Antonino Pasculli, transcribed by Kenneth Tse
- Music by David Maddux, words by Patrick Overton.
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Performed by the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus
Perelman Theater
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA, June 2006 - Recorded on 2006 CD - Open Road - The Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus