You can find most of my solo piano music, plus a few of my chamber works, on Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon Music, and many other streaming sites.
My original solo piano releases include Whereas (2011), a concept album of thirteen original solo piano works inspired by poetry; and October Wind (2005), a retrospective album of thirteen original piano works from 1981 to 2005, plus one art song for tenor and piano. You might also enjoy my digital-only single Claro de Luna (the "Moonlight Sonata" Tango)
I have performed my original solo piano music for audiences all over the U.S. as well as in Canada, the U.K., France, the Dominican Republic, and Spain, and have shared concert stages with many other solo pianists including David Nevue, Louis Landon, Neil Patton, David Lanz, Joe Bongiorno, Joseph Akins, Isadar, and more. In October 2010 I was one of five featured artists, along with fellow composer/pianists Julio Mazziotti (Argentina), Lisa Downing (U.S.), Mario Lopéz-Santos (Spain), and Grammy nominee Suzanne Ciani (U.S.), at the First International Gathering of Solo Pianists in Mallorca, Spain.
My concert music catalogue includes a piano sonata, numerous works for various chamber ensembles, string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, and a clarinet concerto. Here are a few highlights from my instrumental catalogue: Bowerman, Man of Oregon is a 22-minute symphonic biography about Bill Bowerman. Premiered by the Central Oregon Symphony in 2007, in 2008 the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra performed a larger reorchestration of this same work as the centerpiece of a special Bowerman gala tribute concert. My orchestral work Finding the Murray River and string orchestra work Sleep, Child were recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic and released in 2011 on the compilation CD Light and Shadow: Modern Orchestral Works by PARMA Recordings / Navona Records. My popular Aesop's Fables for woodwind quintet and narrator has been performed many times. Recorded in 2013 by the Arrieu Quintet, it was released as a digital EP and receives frequent airplay. Quintetto Andersen (of Italy) recorded that composition but with Italian narration, releasing it as the title work on their 2015 CD Fiabe di Esopo.
I have composed for all types and sizes of choral ensembles, a cappella and accompanied, sacred and secular, and I often write my own choral texts. Most recently: in fall 2024 two of my works premiered at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem, Oregon: My setting of the biblical text 1 Corinthians 13, Love, Paul, for SATB/treble solo a cappella, was part of the St. Paul's Music Guild Concert Series. My setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis texts in English, for SATB/organ, were sung by the Trinity Choir as part of the Sunday service for All Saint's Day. A few other favorites in my catalogue: The Sunbringer's Tale, a 22-minute work, is an original text choral allegory with full orchestral accompaniment. My a cappella SATB setting of The Soul Considers Its Nearness to God, the second piece in the set Three Songs of the Soul, was selected as the the 1998 Westminster Choir College graduating classes' anthem, and premiered at the WCC Commencement Ceremony that year. The third piece in that set, The Soul Contemplates the Creator In the Creation, was performed as part of the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. Wise Words of Love, for SSAA/piano, sets a selection of lines on various aspects of love, ranging from humorous to deeply romantic, all spoken by women characters in Shakespeare plays. It has been performed numerous times. Journeys to Freedom: Rännakud Vabadusse. a nine-minute work for SATB chorus and treble chorus with four winds and two percussions, incorporates folksongs from Estonia and the U.S. in a musical celebration of human freedom and dignity.
• Two of my orchestral works, Finding the Murray River and Sinfonia no. 1, won readings by the Women's Philharmonic (in 1998 and 2001).
• Let Him Return, for SSA/piano, received Top Honors in the 2002 Waging Peace Through Singing international choral composition competition.
• Reciprocity, for SSAATTBB a cappella, is an 11-minute work in 11 non-western languages. It won a commission prize from the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music and premiered in 2005 in NYC.
• Die Alster, for SATB/piano, won the 2013 Houston Saengerbund composition competition.
• In 2014 and 2015 several of my scores were finalists for The American Prize in Composition (choral music, professional division, and chamber music, professional division).
• In 2015 my mixed chamber work Theseus and the Minotaur was awarded Honorable Mention by The American Prize in Composition (chamber music, professional division).
• In June 2016 three performances of my opera Viá Láctea, with libretto by Ellen Waterston, premiered in Bend, Oregon. In support of my work on this project, I received a 2015 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission.
• For the 2017-2018 prize year I received a Special Judges' Citation from The American Prize in Composition, acknowledging the overall unity of my work as "Music for Use: Accessible, Well-crafted, and Always Attractive."
• In 1997 and 1998 I wrote, recorded, and produced the music for two Taiwanese CD-ROM strategy games,
三國群英傳 & 三國群英傳 II. The two games, acquired some years ago by UserJoy, can now be played online, and are entirely in Mandarin. The English title translates either as "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" or "Legend of the Three Kingdoms".
• In 2003 I orchestrated the soundtrack for the independent, critically acclaimed film Westender.
• I composed, recorded, and produced the soundtrack for the three-hour video documentary series A History of the University of Oregon (2001, 2007).
• I wrote and produced the theme song for the weekly interview show UO Today.
• In 2014 I wrote and produced music for a 19-minute pitch reel for Runestone, a historically inspired dramatic adventure saga.
