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Two Russian Folk Melodies (2021)
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Written for Yevgeny Kutik
I. Yablochka
II. Song of the Volga Boatmen
Duration: 5′
Instrumentation: violin, piano

Of Liberating Strife (2021)
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Written for Min Kwon and the America / Beautiful Project ‐ e pluribus unum
Duration: 4’15”
Instrumentation: piano

Cantata: 'Where can I go from your spirit?' (2020)
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Libretto by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
Duration: 26′
Instrumentation: flute, oboe, horn, harp, 1-perc., string quartet, contrabass, mezzo-soprano, baritone

In America: TLI (2019)
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Texts by Mark Twain, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alexander Posey
Duration: 9’30”
Instrumentation: string quartet, piano, harp, four vocal soloists (S.MS.T.Bar.)

String Quartet: Dissembling the Essential (2019)
I. Hyperreality
II. The Cadence of Mist
III. Critical Velocity
partial score and program notes
Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Duration: 17′
string quartet: 2 violins, viola, violoncello

Commissioned by New England Conservatory in celebration of its 150th anniversary
Duration: 4′
4 C-tpts, 4 hns, 3 tbns (3rd is b-tbn), tuba, perc (4)

Arioso Doloroso/Estatico (2016)
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Commissioned by Yevgeny Kutik
Duration: 8′
violin solo

Paula's Piece (2016)
Commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players
Duration: 7′
piano solo

Carroll in Numberland (2015)
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Commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center in honor of its 75th Anniversary Season, with generous support from friends of Anthony Fogg, in memory of his mother, Marie.
Duration: 9′
soprano voice (solo), three female backup singers, 2 C-tpts, tbn, pno, cb (acoustic amplified), perc-2

Two Pieces for Piccolo and Harp (2014)
I. Meditation
II. Euphoria
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Commissioned by the National Flute Association for the 2014 NFA Piccolo Artist Competition.
This commission was made possible in part through the royalties from the NFA’s publication of John Krell’s Kincaidiana.
The NFA gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Mary Krell.
Duration: 8′

Three Pieces for Solo Harp (2012)
I. Liquid Metal (Perpetuum Mobile)II. Reflection (Chorale)
III. Fantasy (Gigue)
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Commissioned by James Gorton and Gretchen Van Hoesen for Heidi Van Hoesen Gorton.
Duration: 9′

Two Arrangements from 'The Garden of Cosmic Speculation' (2011)
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Commissioned by the Avian Orchestra
Duration: 10′
fl, Bb cl, vln, vc, pno, perc

Line Drawings (2010)
I. Canon, Cut and Paste
II. A Farewell to Old Friends
III. Hidden Variable
IV. Obbligato Aria
V. Chickens
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Commissioned by the Concord Chamber Music Society
Duration: 22′
vln, Bb cl, pno

Canzona Nova: Fractured Fairy Tale (2010)
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Commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players
Duration: 15′
ob, vln, vla, vc, pno

Jigsaw Patterns (2010)
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Commissioned by the Rivers School Conservatory
Duration: 7′
fl, vln, vc

history of the world in seven acts (2009)
Music to join with computer animation by Jonathan Bachrach
Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University
Duration: 14′
fl, bcl, vln, vc, pno, prc

Three Pieces for Flute Solo (2008)
I. Basic Operations
II. Note Juggler
III. Heavy-Metal Chorale-Fantasy
Brook Ferguson performance
Commissioned by the James Pappoutsakis Foundation
Duration: 8′

Resin in Resonance (2008)
I. Veiled Veneers
II. Quick Draw
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Commissioned by the New Gallery Series
Duration: 12′
ob, vln, pno (four-hands), prc

Preludes for Woodwind Quintet(2008)
I. Air Pentatonic
II. Shuffle Glasgow
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Commissioned by Vento Chiaro
Duration: 6′
fl, ob, Bb cl, hn, bsn

abridged history of the world in seven acts (2008)
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Music to join with computer animation by Jonathan Bachrach
Duration: 7′
fl, Bb cl, vln, vc, pno, prc

Trivia (2005)
I. Multiverse
II. Time Traveler
III. Coursing
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Commissioned by the Weilerstein Trio
Duration: 18′
vln, vc, pno

Plain Song, Fantastic Dances (2005)
I. St. Botolph’s Fantasia
II. Tango Blue
III. Quick Step
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Commissioned by the St. Botolph Club for the Boston Symphony Chamber Players in celebration of the Club’s 125th anniversary
Duration: 20′
cl, hn, bsn, vln, vla, vc, cb

As Above (2005)
I. Touch / II. Electric
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Video by Ean White
Commissioned by the Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation for Collage New Music
Duration: 10′
fl, ob, cl, hn, vln, vla, vc, cb, pno, prc

Fantasia en Amarillo (2004)
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Funded by FleetBank Celebrity Series for Sergey Schepkin
Duration: 5′
piano solo

Resonance Frames (2003)
I. Photon Waves
II. Willow
III. Zig Zag
IV. U.F.O.
V. Spin
VI. Desert Dash
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Music to join with six films by Pamela Larson
Funded by Harvard University ‘First Nights’
Duration: 8′
cl, vln, vc, pno, prc

Themes from a Midsummer Night (2001)
I. Air (Oberon in Flight)
II. Theseus’ Law
III. Hermia’s Helter Skelter Scherzo
IV. Hermia and Lysander
V. Bottom Brays
VI. Sly Puck
VII. Apotheosis…Morning
VIII. Titania’s Fairies
IX. Time Dream
X. Postlude (the Most Gentle)
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Funded by the Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, Massachusetts
Duration: 18′
fl, ob, cl, hn, tpt, 2 vlns, vc, cb, pno, hp, prc

Pinocchio's Adventures in Funland (1999)
I. Introduction
II. Geppetto’s Workshop
III. Pinocchio’s Escape
IV. The History of Pinocchio
V. The Blue Fairy
VI. Pinocchio and Candleflame
VII. The Coach to Funland
VIII. The Trip to Funland
IX. Funland
X. Donkeyland
XI. The Coachman’s Return
XII. The Circus
XIII. Pinocchio’s Lament
XIV. A Watery Adventure
XV. Pinocchio’s Return
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Words by Dana Bonstrom
Commissioned by the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center (NYC)
Duration: 30′
fl [pic], cl [Bb, A, bcl], vlns, vc, pno, prc, narrator

Geppetto's Workshop (1997)
I. A Piece of Magic Wood that Laughs and Cries like a Child
II. Pinocchio Frolics with Punch and Judy, which Incites the Menacing Fire-Eater
III. The Talking Cricket Warns Pinocchio of the Dangers Ahead
IV. Pinocchio Ignores the Talking Cricket’s Warning and is Chased by the Fox and the Cat
program notes
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Commissioned by Elizabeth Ostling through a grant from the Fromm Foundation
Duration: 17′
fl, pno

Cable Ready (1997)
I. Power Chords
II. The All-Interval-Tetrachord Blues
III. Fully Inserted
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Commissioned by the Core Ensemble through a grant from Meet the Composer
Duration: 17′
vc, pno, prc

Grooved Surfaces (1996)
I. Frame Shifting
II. Pitching Rotation
III. Flipside
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Commissioned by the Boston Musica Viva
Duration: 12′
fl, Bb cl, vln, vc, pno, prc

Punch Lines (1996)
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Duration: 7′
harp solo

Design School (1994/5)
I. Fibonacci’s Fanfare
II. Photoelectric Effect
III. Reptiles
IV. Matrix Mechanics
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Commissioned by Parnassus (NYC)
Duration: 20′
fl, ob, cl, bsn, vln, vla, vc, cb, pno

Caution to the Wind (1993)
I. Introduction
II. Excursion
III. Recitative
IV. Divisions
V. Soliloquy
VI. Incursion/Exit
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(Concerto for flute and chamber ensemble)
Commissioned by the Koussevitsky Music Foundation
for flutist Peggy Friedland and the Griffin New Music Ensemble
Duration: 21′
flute solo, 2 vlns, vla, vc, cb, hp, prc

Harlequin Sketches (1991)
I. Twilight Promenade
II. Minimetalism
III. Once and for All
IV. Nylon Drumming
V. Ricochet
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Commissioned by William Matthews
Duration: 15′
guitar solo

Line of Approach (1990)
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Duration: 11′
fl, hp, prc

Personae (1986)
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Commissioned by Speculum Musicae, Sonor, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Duration: 20′
fl, ob, cl, hn, vln, vla, vc, cb, pno

Concertino (1984)
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Commissioned by Parnassus (NYC)
Duration: 14′
fl, ob, cl, vln, vc, cb, pno

Il Ventaglio di Josephine (1983)
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Written for my sister Jodi Gandolfi
Duration: 5′
piano solo

String Trio (1981)
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Duration: 12′
vln, vla, vc

Four Miniatures (1979)
I. The Expanse
II. Penultimate Soup
III. Dance of the Cepheids
IV. Nucleosynthesis
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Written for Peggy Friedland
Duration: 8′
flute solo