Strings

Cirrostratus from Atmospherics (2021) – for spatialized string orchestra
Duration: variable

Atmospherics (2021) is a series of four compositions for spatialized or isolated ensemble. Each piece features a section of the orchestra/band and is inspired by a different type of cloud.
Asperitas – for WIND ensemble; Cumulonimbus – for BRASS ensemble;
Noctilucent – for PERCUSSION ensemble; and Cirrostratus – for STRING orchestra

* Atmospherics was co-commissioned by the Arizona State University’s Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and performed by ensembles directed by Jeffery Meyer and Jason Caslor.
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Museum Pieces  (2012) – solo pieces for various instruments (to be played concurrently)
Duration: variable
    Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 – for solo cello (or viola)  (from the 1912 Marcel Duchamp painting)
    Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard – for solo violin  (from a 1910 Pablo Picasso painting)
* Commissioned by the British Columbia Registered Music Teachers’ Association
Premiered at Canada Music Week, November 18, 2012
Video Performance by Sputter Box (USA) 

Foucault’s Pendulum  (2007) – for string octet (or string orchestra)
Duration: 13 minutes
Premiered at the St. Paul’s Labyrinth January 26, 2007

Coriolis  (2006, rev.2025) – for string orchestra
Duration: 5 minutes
Dedicated to Jennifer Butler and Michael Begg
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* Coriolis (choral version) has been released on CD by the Kammerchor Consono,
conducted by Harald Jers Spotify

Aurora (2004) – for string orchestra with 2 perc.
Duration: 9 minutes
Premiered by Vancouver Symphony, Alain Trudel, conductor –  January 21, 2005
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* Aurora was selected to be performed at the International Society of Contemporary Music Festival in Miami, Florida
* Aurora was the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s official entry at the UNESCO International Music Council’s Rostrum of Composers in Lisbon, Portugal

Teleidoscope  (2007) – for string quartet & piano
Duration: 6 minutes
Premiered by the Calgary Sax Quartet February 7, 2008
Originally written for mixed chamber ensemble
Dedicated to Jim and Donna Crook

Black – from Synchronicities #1  (1998) – for cello or double bass
Solo pieces to be performed concurrently
Duration: 5 minutes
Premiered by Andrew Miller, double bass September 17, 1998

* Released as a bonus track on the album Undercurrents by Contact Contemporary Music

submerge  (1997) – for violin, viola, cello
Duration: 4 minutes
Premiered by the Melange Ensemble December 3, 2006

Melange ensemble