Chamber & Small Ensemble Music
Compositions | Arrangements
Compositions
a song with words that nobody knows: Bcuk Mulligan
Chamber Ensemble - this, now
January 2016
American Dialogues : Introduction
May 2014 | Duration 1 hr.
Commissioned by Jazz @ Lincoln Center
in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art
Instrumentation: Three Saxophones - French Horn - Tap Dancer
Narration - Bass - Drums
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Burning Piano Film Score
September 2010 | Duration: 3'43"
Instrumentation: 2 Oboes - English Horn - Bb Clarinet
Alto Saxophone (Improvising) - Trumpet in Bb - 3 Trombones
Vibraphone - Percussion - Piano
Dance Erectus
February 2017 | Duration : 8'
Instrumentation: 2 Baroque Violins - Baroque Cello - Organ - Tap Dancer
Duo for Two Flutes
April 2016 | Duration: 5'
Etude No. 1 for Solo Violin
August 2013 | Duration: 3'16"
Improvisation for 2 Violins & Piano
August 2013 | Duration: 5'07"
“… it was an elfin prelude”
Chamber Ensemble - this, now
April 2017
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - String Trio - Acoustic Bass
For David Liebman
Mother Goose Suite
April 2011 | Duration: 27'42"
A narrative work for large chamber ensemble including:
The Lion & The Unicorn
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Jacky's Fiddle
Myself
The Man & The Robbers
Rock-a-bye Baby
Instrumentation: Narrator, 2 Improvising Saxophonists, Woodwind Octet, Harp, Rhythm Section
Premiered in May 2011 with Steve Wilson & David Noon
Movements for Shawm & String Trio
June 2016 | Duration: 12'
Three Movements
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Flute & Piano
March 2014 | Duration: 7'58"
Commissioned by The RighteousGIRLS
Recorded: gathering blue
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Alto Saxophone & Piano Trio
December 2015 | Duration: 7'53"
Commissioned by Vandoren & DANSR inc.
Premiered by Aiwen Zhang
non-poem 3
Chamber Ensemble - this, now
January 2016 | Duration 10'
non-poem 4
Clarinet & Piano
March 2017 | Duration 6'30"
Commissioned by Mark Dover
Premiered Latenight @ National Sawdust
non-poem 6
Soprano Saxophone & Alto Saxophone
July 2022 | Duration 6’
Commissioned by David Stambler
Three Premieres: Penn State University Recital, 2023 Navy Saxophone Symposium, 2023 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference
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David Liebman & Chamber Ensemble
January 2022 | Duration 20’
Commissioned by David Liebman
Premiered at Uptown! Knauer Theater, West Chester Pennsylvania with the Dalí String Quartet
Soprano Saxophone, String Quartet, 4 winds, 3 brass, Guitar, Bass
Not This
February 2014
Premiered at Carnegie Hall with Alex LoRe
Duo for Two Saxophones
October Memos
December 2015 | Duration: 7'24"
Commissioned by Beyond Ourselves
Three Movements:
October 17th
October 18th
October 24th
Instrumentation: Voice - Piano - Violin - Viola - Saxophone - Clarinet
Ode to Walt
April 2014 | Duration: 6'
Instrumentation: Piano & String Trio
On Tenderness
February 2019 | Duration 6’
Instrumentation: String Quartet
On The Death of John Keats
October 2011 | Duration: 8'59"
Instrumentation: Improvising Saxophonist - Piano - 3 Percussionists
Powder for Flute & Piano
April 2013 | Duration: 6'40"
Premiered at the DiMenna Center (NYC)
Performed at Spectrum by the Righteous Girls
Prelude for Piano
July 2013 | Duration: 3'30"
Commissioned by David Allard
The Rooster, The Mouse & The Little Red Hen
December 2011 | Duration: 17'30"
A narrative work based on the old children's tale
Premiered by the Solar Winds Quintet in Boston MA.
Instrumentation: Narrator - Woodwind Quintet
Saxophone Quartet No. 1
September 2012 | Duration: 12'27"
Five Movements based on American Themes including:
The Star-Spangled Banner
Not an eye on the sparrow
Thompson River
Shenandoah
Washington Post March
String Quartet No. 1
Encounter in a Darkened Field
August 2012 | Duration: 25'39"
A single movement work for String Quartet based on a poem by Karen Dekker.
Sicnarf for Oboe & Piano
January 2013 | Duration: 7'
Commissioned by Charlyn Bethell
Translucent Leaves
November 2011 | Duration: 5'05"
Instrumentation: Improvising Saxophonist - Flute - Clarinet - English Horn - Contrabass
Twenty-Four for Flute & Piano
August 2013 | Duration: 7'
Commissioned by Jill Dreeben
Uncle Wiggly
September 2017 | Duration: 23'
A narrative work for large chamber ensemble
Instrumentation: Narrator, 2 Improvising Saxophonists, Woodwind Octet, Harp, Rhythm Section
Whither Stephen?
January 2020 | Duration: 10’
Instrumentation: Improvising Trio + String Quartet
Arrangements
Agathon
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Alcibiades
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Añorado Encuentro
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
Aristophanes
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Candide’s Lament
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Clarinet Sonata Movement 1
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Cuando te Fuiste de mi
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
De Mis Recuerdos
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
Dream With Me
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - Tenor Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Eryximachus
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
La Tarde
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
Le Roi du Monde
(David Liebman)
Chamber Ensemble - this, now
April 2017
For David Liebman
Los Aretes de la Luna
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
No Creo
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
No Tengo Nada
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
Prelude to Trouble in Tahiti
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Por Ti
April 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - String Sextet - Soloist - Rhythm Section
For Xiomara Laugart
Simple Song
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Socrates
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Some Other Time
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
Spring Will Come Again
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
The Iguana’s Ritual
(David Liebman)
Chamber Ensemble - this, now + EWI
April 2017
For David Liebman
Who am I?
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Vocalist - Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)
World Without End
(Leonard Bernstein)
August 2018
Instrumentation: Soprano Saxophone - Alto Saxophone - 2 Clarinets/Bass Cl - Violoncello - Rhythm Section
Mosaic of Wonder - The Music of Leonard Bernstein (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola August 2018)