Composer-pianist (b. Detroit, 1950) has
written works for a wide variety of media including orchestra and chamber works. They have been performed at numerous venues including Merkin Hall,
Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space in New York and throughout the U.S., Eastern Europe and Russia. Since 1983 Mr. Pehrson has been co-director of the
Composers Concordance in New York. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan
(DMA 1981). Pehrson's teachers included composers Leslie Bassett, Joseph Schwantner, and, informally, Otto Luening and
Elie Siegmeister in New York. As of 2007, he has written more than 14 hours of music.
Recent news!:
Pehrson visited St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, in March 2008 for a series of concerts. In St. Petersburg, he participated in a Festival "From the Avant Garde to the Present Day," with Panoply for
solo flute performed by Mikhail Pobedinsky and a new piece Quixoddities based upon Cervantes' Don Quixote for piccolo and bassoon, performed by Mikhail Pobedinsky with
bassoonist Maxim Karpinsky at the "House of Composers" in St. Petersburg (March 19, 2008). Linda Past-Pehrson also danced to three electronic pieces in alternate tunings as part of this festival at the "Smolny Institute" (Hexy, Inner Voices, microproj) March 17, 2008.
In Moscow, he had five pieces presented at the "Jurgenson Salon" on March 22, 2008: Chab for solo cello performed by Olga Galochkina (who had played it before in 2001), Chambers Music for toy piano performed by Mona Haba, Toast for double bass (a premiere) with Evgeny Sinitzyn,
Stringing for violin and piano with Maria Margorina, violin and Olesya Kozachenko, piano, and Spinner for clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello. Performers
were Alexander Filatov, clarinet, Sergei Grashchenkov, bassoon, Anastasia Ponochevnaya, viola and Lydia Zinchenko, cello who are members of the Moscow-based chamber
ensemble "Twentieth Century", "Dvadtsaty vek" directed by Maria Khodina and affiliated with the M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov Music Institute. The day before, March 21, 2008, Linda Past-Pehrson danced to six electronic pieces in alternate tunings at the
"Fireplace Hall" of the "Central Building for Workers of Art, (TsDRI)" including Hexy, Inner Voices, microproj, Blacklight, Blackjack, Beepy.
Here is a video of the performance of Spinner at the Composers' Union Concert Hall in Moscow. Performers
are Alexander Filatov, clarinet, Sergei Grashchenkov, bassoon, Anastasia Ponochevnaya, viola and Lydia Zinchenko, cello who are members of the Moscow-based chamber
ensemble "Twentieth Century", "Dvadtsaty vek" directed by Maria Khodina and affiliated with the M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov Music Institute.
March 3, 2008, the brass trio B3+ with Dave Taylor, trombone, Franz Hackl, trumpet and John Clark, horn, premiered Pehrson's B's Company as part of a Composers Concordance
concert at the Settepani Restaurant in Harlem, NYC.
2007
Spinner for clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello was performed December 25, 2007 in Moscow at the Composers' Union Concert Hall, with a rehearsal/performance
December 23rd at the Central Building for the Workers of Art in Moscow. Both performances were by the "20th Century Chamber Ensemble."
Pehrson's Windjammer for woodwind quintet, was performed on a Composers Concordance concert at the Greenwich House Music School Renee Weiler Auditorium on
Friday, November 9, 2007. Performers were Erin Lesser, flute, Laura Covey, oboe, Tibi Cziger, clarinet, Gina Cuffari, bassoon and Alana Vegter, horn.
Another quite different woodwind quintet, Blackjinn, in the near-just-intonation 21-note scale of "Blackjack" was premiered by the American Festival of Microtonal Music
at the Bowery Poetry Club on Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 10PM.
April 30, 2007, 7:00 PM, Gerardo Levy performed Pehrson's Profondo for bass flute at a concert honoring Dinu Ghezzo's retirement and 38 years of working in the U.S. in a concert of his pieces and that of his associates at the Romanian Cultural Center, 200 E. 38th St.
April 28, 2007, 5 PM, Pehrson's new electronic work, microproj in the near-just-intonation 21-note "Blackjack" scale was presented at a "Retirement Concert" honoring
the Director of the NYU Composition Program, Dinu Ghezzo. The concert was at Loewe Auditorium, 35 W. 4th St. (between Greene Street and Washington
Square East). Actress-dancer Linda Past performed a visual rendition to the work.
Pehrson's Trump-It! for trumpet and piano was performed in Moscow March 26, 2007, at the "Jurgenson Salon," through a recommendation by composer/organist Kirill Umansky. Performers were Vladimir Goncharov, trumpet
and Mikhail Dubov, piano who is a member of the acclaimed Moscow Ensemble for Contemporary Music.
Wim Hoogewerf performed Pehrson's Just In Time for an unusual, independently-fretted quitar at the UK MicroFest 2 at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey (near London)
on March 4, 2007. This piece is in a just intonation scale devised by the performer.
Pehrson's string quartet contribution to the Composers Concordance Suite, Slacker Cracker played by Plantain, was heard at the Cutting Room on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, 8:30PM
2006:
Peter Jarvis and April McCloskey of the "DoubleStop Percussion Duo" performed Pehrson's Inner Voices II at Connecticut College on December 12, 2006.
A review has appeared on Seen and Heard International's website of Levitations for viola and piano as performed by the American Modern Ensemble:
"In a savvy bit of programming, the Silverman seemed spiritually linked to Joseph Pehrson's Levitations, which followed. The levitating here began with arpeggios for viola and piano,
in a mostly tonal landscape, rising to moments of glistening beauty, and again Ms. Hartman and Mr. Chung were most impressive." -- Bruce Hodges. The entire review is
here: To Seen and Heard International's Review
Victoria and Robert Paterson's American Modern Ensemble To The American Modern Ensemble Website!,
presented Levitations for viola and piano on Saturday, October 14, 2006, 8PM at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A W. 13th Street, NYC.
Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation performed Liberations for two guitars, bass guitar, cello and drums Thursday, June 15, 2006, 10PM at
Desmond's Tavern, 433 Park Ave. So, in Manhattan.
The New York Composers Circle presented Flautando for flute and guitar on Tuesday, June 6 at St. Peter's Church at the
Citicorp Center (Lexington Ave. at 54th St.). Performers were Oren Fader, guitar and Mary Barto, flute.
Pianist Juny Jung performed Three Pianopieces (1991) in Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall on Friday, May 19, 2006 as part of the Simon's Pond New York Festival.
A premiere of a recent work for two percussionists and electronics Inner Voices II was performed at William Patterson College on
Friday, April 28, 2006, 7:30PM by the "DoubleStop Percussion Duo" of Peter Jarvis and April McCloskey. This piece uses software synthesizers with
microtonality in a tuning system called "Blackjack" which closely emulates just intonation (non-beating chords).
Dan Barrett and Sean Satin performed Pehrson's Runnion With It for cello and electric guitar at the Cutting Room, NYC on Feb. 13, 2006.
Pehrson's Forest of Winds for double wind quintet was performed Jan. 15, 2006 by Gerardo Levy's St. Cecelia Ensemble at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
on 86th St. NYC.
2005:
Kirill Umansky performed Pehrson's Organum for solo organ at the Moscow Autumn Festival on November 2, 2005.
Ivano Ascari performed Pehrson's Trump-It! for trumpet and piano at the University of Illinois school of music on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 as part
of Ascari's Guest Artist residency.
On Thursday, June 16th, 2005, Dinu Ghezzo and the NYU Composition Department featured Pehrson's Bass Desires,
for bass clarinet and piano, a commission which was part of the NYU Tonemeister Summer rehearsal/recording series.
Trumpeter Ivano Ascari performed Pehrson's Trump-it! for trumpet and piano at the Philharmonic Hall in Trento, Italy
on Thursday, May 19, 2005.
Pehrson's BlackandJill for soprano and electronics in the near-just-intonation "Blackjack" scale was premiered
by Meredith Borden on a concert of the American Festival of Microtonal Music at the Faust/Harrison Piano Studios on 58th St. in NYC, April 8, 2005.
Organum for solo organ was performed for the second time on Jan. 31, 2005 by Carson Cooman at Houghton College, Houghton, NY.
2004:
In June, 2004, Pehrson traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia to participate in Sergei Oskolkov's festival, "Sergei Oskolkov and Friends." Pehrson's microtonal solo bassoon piece
using 8th tones called One Small Step for Man was performed there on June 8th, 2004. Additionally, two electronic pieces
in "alternate" tunings, Beepy, in the Bohlen-Pierce scale and Blacklight, in the near-just-intonation "Blackjack" scale
were heard and danced to by Linda Past-Pehrson on the same concert.
June 6th, 2004, Pehrson's ensemble piece for mandolins, Mandolini Majestici was performed by the New York Mandolin Ensemble
with Dan Barrett, conductor.
November 19, 2004, Organist and composer Carson Cooman premiered Pehrson's Organum for solo organ at Christ & St. Stephen's church near Lincoln Center.
October 25, 2004, the Archaeus Ensemble of 7 players conducted by Liviu Danceanu performed Pehrson's Wild, Wild West in Bucharest, Romania (first performance since 1999).
2003:
ASCAP reports that during the period 2000-2003 Pehrson had five works played on South Korean radio
Doodle Doo, Hexy, Patina, Profondo and Wild, Wild West) with Patina, a wind ensemble piece, performed live on Korean television.
Flautando for flute and guitar was performed on a Composers Concordance concert 11-14-03 and the electronic piece in 19-equal tuning, Verklaerte Neunzehn was heard in
Kazan, Russia at the Gubaidulina Contemporary Music Center on 12-17-03.
On October 20th, 2003, violist Lev Zhurbin premiered a new Pehrson work specifically requested by him, Levitations, for viola and piano with pianist Leonard Lehrman at Mannes School of Music in a concert sponsored by the New York Viola Society.
On May 29, 2003, Blacklight for cello and electronics in the near-just-intonation "Blackjack" scale was performed on a Composers Concordance concert at the NYU Loewe Theatre by cellist Dan Barrett and Barrett also performed
Pehrson's CHAB for solo cello at the World Turning Festival, August 20, 2003 at the Medicine Show Theatre on W. 52nd St. on a concert curated by composer Evan Hause.
On April 8, 2003, Pehrson's Panoply for solo flute was performed in Moscow at the Russian Library of Foreign Literature by Vassily Soloviev and on April 12, 2003, famed theremin performer Lydia Kavina played Pehrson's W-u-u-u-u for solo theremin at the Contemporary Arts Festival in Brynsk, Russia.
Three additional works were played in Russia during 2003, all at the Moscow Conservatory: On the Nature of the Universe II on May 19, 2003 with Irina Obolonskaya recorder and Anton Rovner, narrator, W-u-u-u-u on June 12, 2003 by Ayako Sato, theremin (a Lydia Kavina student), and
a repeat performance of On the Nature of the Universe II on June 12, 2003, this concert organized by composer Anton Rovner at the prestigious Rachmaninoff Hall.
2002:
In December 2002, pianist/composer Jeffrey Jacob released a commercial recording of Pehrson's Three Pianopieces on the New Ariel label and there was
a repeat performance of the brass quintet Fuoco on December 18, 2002 in Kazan by the Kazan Ensemble.
June 5, 2002, Pehrson's work for two pianos, Chromotions was performed at the Oskolkov Festival in Oranienbaum, Russia near St. Petersburg and his brass quintet Fuoco was performed November 28, 2002 in Kazan, Russia
by Sergei Belikov's Kazan Ensemble for Contemporary Music.
Pianist Jeff Jacob, noted for his George Crumb work, played Pehrson's Three Pianopieces at New York University
on April 29, 2002 and May 28, 2002.
Pulse Ensemble Theatre presented a repeat four-week run of Shakespeare's The Tempest, with Pehrson's music, mid April, 2002. Pehrson
also had his piece Blackjack in the near-just-intonation "alternate tuning" of the
same name for trombone and electronics presented on Johnny Reinhard's American Festival of Microtonal Music, May 25, 2002 at Roulette, NYC and his Violahexy for solo viola and electronics in
another "alternate tuning" on a Composers Concordance concert, May 30, 2002 at NYU Frederick Loewe Theatre.
On March 15, 2002, Jean Luc Darbelley presented Pehrson's Spectral Harmony
for French horn and saxophone, with Olivier Darbelley, horn and Marc Sieffert, saxophone in Bern, Switzerland.
The piece was repeated March 17, 2002 in Mulhouse, France.
2001:
August 2001, the Pulse Ensemble Theatre produced Shakespeare's The Tempest to
music composed by Pehrson (Listen here)
On April 9, 2001, Pehrson traveled to
Los Angeles to participate in the Claremont College Microfest
where two of his new electronic pieces in alternate tunings Verklarte Neunzehn
and Hexy were heard in a "listening room" as part of a three-day festival.
Hexy was also performed on April 20, 2001 on a "Sonic Circuits" concert
at Roulette, sponsored by the American Composers Forum.
Actress/dancer Linda Past also danced to the piece at that event.
In March, 2001 Pehrson travelled to Russia for a series
of concerts. One full-length concert of his works was presented March 17, 2001
at the DOM performance space in Moscow, including pieces Profondo for
bass flute, Three Pianopieces, for piano solo, Doodle Doo, for clarinet and piano,
Panoply, for solo flute, On the Nature of the Universe II for
recorder and speaker, Chambers Music for toy piano, Violahexy for alternately tuned viola and
electronics, and three electronic pieces in alternate tunings: Unheard,
Verklarte Neunzehn and Hexy danced by Linda Past. Another concert at the "Naschokin House" sponsored
by the Club of Sergey Berinsky, featured Pehrson's CHAB for solo cello
and Stringing, for violin and piano. Two additional
works, Chromotions for two pianos and Panoply for solo flute were
played as part of a contemporary music festival at the city of
Bryansk, outside Moscow.
1999-2000:
Moscow-based theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina premiered
Pehrson's W-u-u-u-u for theremin at the Eastman School of Music
(Mar. '00), repeating the piece in Kaluga, Russia and at the
Lincoln Center Summer Festival as part of a lecture-demonstration (July '00).
The Meridian Arts Ensemble performed Fuoco for Brass
Quintet (Mar. '00).
Tuba Miracle for solo tuba was premiered at a
fundraiser for the New Music Connoisseur magazine (Sept. '00), Stringing
for violin and piano was premiered (Oct. '00) by the Composers Concordance, and
Just in Time, written in just intonation, was
premiered (Nov. '00) by Wim Hoogewerf at the American Festival of Microtonal Music
on an unusual guitar with individually-movable frets.
Four Pehrson works
Slices, Lewis Carroll Songs, Three Pianopieces and Profondo
were featured at New York University under the auspices of Dinu Ghezzo (Sept. '99).
Two vocal pieces, Slices and Lewis Carroll Songs
were presented by Golden Fleece Opera productions (Nov. '99).
A piece, One Small Step for Man, for bassoon in "1/8 tones,"
an unusual tuning system, was premiered by Johnny Reinhard in New York 05-27-99.
Reinhard subsequently took the work to Moscow for the "Alternativa" Festival and to Kazan, Russia where he presented it at the Composers Union.
A repeat (third) performance of Pehrson's Wild Wild West for seven instruments at the "International Festival" in
Bucharest, Romania by Liviu Danceanu's Archaeus ensemble (Feb. '99)
and a performance in Moscow of Spectral Harmony for saxophone and horn (Mar, '99).
1997-1998:
Other performances included
The Nature of the Universe II for baroque flute
(performed twice, Apr. '98, Oct. '98 in New York on concerts organized by flutist Andrew Bolotowsky),
a piece for rock band, Twang, (Oct. '98, performed in New York), and
Transcendence for harp and violin
(Nov. '98 on the Composers Concordance series in New York)
A performance of
Exhilarations at the University of Chicago and at the
Three Arts Club in Chicago by the Chicago Ensemble (Apr. '98).
Exhilarations was a winning score in a competition of over 300
submissions.
A performance of Lustspiel at the
University of Colorado, Boulder (Mar. '98) as part of a festival honoring the memory of Ross Lee Finney, one of Pehrson's teachers.
Performance of Three Pianopieces by Jeffrey Jacob in Ohio and
Rees, Germany (Jan. '98)
The solo flute piece,
Panoply, was performed by Gerardo Levy twice
(Apr. '97, May, '97). A new work for chamber ensemble,
Wild, Wild West was premiered and
prominently featured by Liviu Danceanu's Archaeus Ensemble in Bucharest,
Romania at the International Contemporary Music Days in Bacau,
Romania (Jun. '97) It was then repeated at the Days of
New Music International Festival in Chisinau, Moldova. (Oct. '97)
A residency (May, '97) at the
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music under composer Darrell Handel where
Fuoco for Brass Quintet was performed.
Performances include: Forest of Winds for wind ensemble by Gerardo Levy's
St. Cecilia Ensemble (May '95, repeated May '97),
Lustspiel for
clarinet, violin, cello and piano by the Absolute Ensemble (Mar. '96)
Performance (Apr. '97) of a commissioned work
Trumpet in a New Surrounding by the St. Luke's Chamber
Ensemble with Chris Gekker, trumpet, a recommendation by composer Eric Ewazen
1995-1996:
Hornorarium for
four horns by the New York Art Ensemble (May '96), two performances of Chambers Music
for toy piano by the composer and toy piano virtuoso Wendy Mae Chambers in New Orleans and New York, (May, July. '96), a performance of
Confessions of the Goliards for tenor and ensemble produced by the Absolute Ensemble (Jun. '96).
A premiere of the brass quintet Fuoco by the Walden Brass Quintet in New York (Apr. '96). This piece was also performed (Jul. '96) in
Constanta, Romania.
A performance in Bucharest, Romania of Pehrson's Windwork for woodwind quintet by the Romanian Radio and Television (April '96)
There were also three performances of Etheroscape for 8 flutes, two by the NYU Flute Ensemble (Oct. '96, Dec. '96) and one at
C.W. Post College (Jul. '96)
1992-1994:
In 1994, Pehrson became contributor
to New Music Connoisseur magazine,
an activity he continues. He is currently involved
with several other contemporary music organizations, including the
New York Composers' Circle and the
American Festival of Microtonal Music.
He has pieces published by Seesaw Music Corp. (Now a subsidiary of Subito Music Corp.) and (the former) Soundspells Editions and has three scores in the circulating
division of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, as well as 23 of his
works fully catalogued in the research division of the NYPL.
Pehrson has been listed in several biographical
anthologies, including Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in
Entertainment (both Marquis) and the
International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge,
England.
Pehrson's Thanatopsis was performed (Oct. '94) by the Long Island Composers Alliance.
This piece was recorded and released on Capstone records.
Mr. Pehrson was invited as guest composer to the University of Akron,
Ohio, (Mar. '93) by composer David Bernstein, where his work Fractio Modi
for vibraphone, bassoon and cello was performed.
Performances included a presentation of several works at
the Greenwich House as part of Frank Wigglesworth's Village Variations series (Nov. '92)
Performances of Etheroscape for eight
flutes by students of Gerardo Levy at New York University as a repertoire
item (every two years)
Performance of the Confessions of the Goliards for tenor, flute,
violin and cello, a commission by Jim Blanton's Goliard Concerts for their
Warwick Music Festival in Warwick, NY, (Oct. '92) on recommendation by composer Eric Ewazen. In addition, Goliard
Concerts presented three other works, Ariadne, piano trio,
Caprice, flute and piano, and Thanatopsis,
baritone, violin and piano, as part of the Festival.
Following the Warwick Festival, the Pehrson works Ariadne and
Caprice were performed by the Goliard Chamber players
at three locations on a tour of Southern states, (Oct. '92), and at
three locations in Metropolitan New York (Nov. '92, Jan. '93).
1987-1991:
Performances at that time included
the Manhattan Plaza Orchestral Painting by the Lake St. Clair
Symphony Orchestra, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, (Apr. '89) along with a teaching residency at the University Liggett School,
Etheroscape for eight flutes premiered by the
New York Flute Club (Jun. '91), and Windwork for woodwind
quintet by the Pegasus Winds (May '91), repeated four other times
in the New York area by that group.
The Belgian horn player Francis Orval commissioned several
works including the Concertino for Horn which was performed
at the University of Delaware with Mr. Pehrson conducting
(Apr. '87). It was repeated in New York, and again (Jan.'91) by the North-South Consonance
Ensemble. Nature's Harmony, a work for two horns in just
intonation, one of Orval and Pehrson's shared interests, which Francis Orval
and his wife Ruby Miller commissioned and took on a tour of several Western states in 1987,
was repeated on a concert of the American Festival of Microtonal Music (May '88).
Harmonic Etude, a virtuosic work for solo horn in
just intonation, was commissioned and performed by Orval in Merkin Hall (Feb.'88)
and was repeated by Orval at the International Horn Convention in Potsdam, NY (Jun. '88).
Hornucopia, a work for ten horns, was commissioned for the
Delaware Horn Ensemble with Orval conducting, (Apr.'89). This work was
repeated in Budapest, Hungary by Orval (Jul. '89) and in Donaueschingen,
Germany, (Nov. '92).
1980-1986:
After student performances, Pehrson came to New York in 1980. His music was performed by NACUSA, with his Fractio Modi (Aug. '81) at
Symphony Space, and North-South Consonance, which presented his Approaches for solo trombone (Apr. '82) and
his Arecibo for piano and percussion (Jan. '85). His music was also performed regularly at Composers Concordance
concerts, a composer-presenting organization that Pehrson started with Patrick Hardish in 1983. He also appeared with Hardish on a series of radio shows,
WKCR-FM, Columbia University and WNYC-FM, hosted by Tim Page, New York Times critic.
Recently:
Pehrson has become an enthusiastic advocate of the Sibelius music writing software:
to Sibelius website
and he has also been involved in the study
of alternate tuning systems and electronic means to implement them.
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WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA:
- Regions (1973) 7' (S)
- Sinfonia Concertante (1980) 20'(J)
- Manhattan Plaza Orchestral Painting (1988) 5' (S)
- Chromakkordion (1995) Orch: 3333,4331. 15' (J)
WORK FOR CHORUS:
- Choral Confessions (1997) 17' (J) SATB, flute,
violin, cello, tambourine, based on chamber piece
Confessions of the Goliards
WORKS FOR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE:
- De Rerum Natura (1974) for flute, oboe, clarinet,
mandolin, tenor voice, perc., 2 cellos. 20' (S)
- Entropic Latitudes (1974) for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet,
trombone, piano, 2 percussion, 2 violas, 2 cellos & contrabass. 10' (J)
- Patina (1977) for wind ensemble. 10' (S)
- New York Suite (1983) for flute, oboe,
clarinet, trumpet, piano, viola & cello. 15' (S)
- Concertino for Horn & Eight Instruments (1987)
for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, solo horn, violin, viola, cello,
contrabass. 12' (S)
- Hornucopia (1988) for ten horns. 7'(S)
- Etheroscape (1989) for eight flutes. 5' (S)
- Windwork (1990) for woodwind quintet. 8'(S)
- Confessions of the Goliards (1992) for tenor voice, flute,
violin & cello. 17' (S)
- Fuoco (1993) brass quintet. 13' (S)
- Lustspiel (1993) clarinet, violin, cello, piano 16' (S)
- Forest of Winds (1994) for wind ensemble 6' (S)
- Hornorarium (1994) for 4 horns. 7' (S)
- Trumpet in a New Surrounding (1996) for trumpet
and string quintet. 17' (S)
- Wild, Wild West (1997) for oboe, clarinet, bassoon,
piano, percussion, violin, cello. 8' (S)
- Twang (1998) for rock band. 4' (J)
- Blackjinn (2003) for woodwind quintet in the near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 7' (J)
- Mandolini Majestici (2003) for mandolin ensemble (plus recorder and concertina) 5' (J)
- Liberations (2006) two electric guitars, bass guitar, cello and drums 9' (J)
- Windjammer (2006) Woodwind quintet 11'(J)
- Cracker (2006) flute, alto sax, perc, pno., elect. guit., bass guitar, violin, cello 5'(J)
- Slacker Cracker (2006) String quartet 5'(J)
- Spinner (2006) clarinet, bassoon, viola, cello 9'(J)
DUOS AND TRIOS:
- Arecibo (1976) for piano & percussion. 12' (S)
- Entelechies (1977) for clarinet and 2 violas. 9' (S)
- Fractio Modi (1979) for vibraphone,
bassoon & cello. 12' (S)
- Rites of Passage (1981) for bassoon & piano. 12' (S)
- Changing Fantasy (1983) for flute, viola & piano. 15' (S)
- Caprice (1984) for flute & piano. 4' (S)
- Ariadne (1985) for piano trio. 17' (S)
- Thanatopsis (1985) for baritone voice,
violin & piano. 7' (S)
- Romance (1985) for horn & piano. 8' (S)
- Nature's Harmony (1987) for 2 horns in
just intonation. 5' (S)
- Chromotions (1988) for 2 pianos. 8' (S)
- Violarimba (1988) for viola & marimba. 10' (S)
- Tonreiter (1989) for clarinet & piano. 8' (J)
- Lewis Carroll Songs (1986/90) for soprano & piano. 7'(S)
- Windfall (1993) for wind trio. 7' (J)
- Exhilarations (1993) for clarinet, cello and piano. 11'
- Transcendence (1994) for violin & harp. 11' (S)
- Spectral Harmony (1997) for alto sax and horn. 7' (S)
- Doodle Doo (1999) clarinet & piano. 12' (S)
- Slices (1999) soprano & piano. 4' (J)
- Stringing (1999) violin & piano. 12' (S)
- Three Musicians (2002) guitar, violin & viola. 10' (J)
- Runnion With It (2002) electric guitar & cello. 9' (J)
- Flautando (2002) flute & guitar. 9'(J)
- Levitations (2003) viola & piano. 9' (S)
- Trump-it! (2004) trumpet & piano. 9' (J)
- Consonantics (2004) 2 cellos in the Blackjack scale. 9' (J)
- Bass Desires (2005) bass clarinet and piano. 6' (J)
- Aura (2005) bassoon and percussion. 9' (J)
- Inner Voices II (2005) electronics and 2 percussionists (non-pitched) 10' (J)
- Quixoddities (2007) piccolo and bassoon 9.5' (J)
- B's Company (2007) trumpet, horn, trombone 4.5' (J)
WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENTS:
- Approaches (1976) for solo trombone. 10' (S)
- Piano/Dance Sonata (1981) piano solo. 7' (S)
- Etude Moderne (1981) for harp solo. 7' (S)
- Harmonic Etude (1987) for solo horn
in just intonation. 5' (S)
- Three Pianopieces (1991) 10' (S)
- Chab (1991) for solo cello. 5' (S)
- Panoply (1992) for solo flute. 5' (J)
- Lake Fantasy (1993) for solo oboe. 4.5' (J)
- Chambers Music (1996) for toy piano. 8' (J)
- The Nature of the Universe II (1998)
baroque flute. 12' (S)
- One Small Step for Man (1998) microtonal bassoon. 10' (J)
- Profondo (1998) bass flute. 8' (S)
- Just in Time (1999) guitar in just intonation. 10' (J)
- Tuba Miracle (2000) tuba. 10' (S)
- Violahexy (2000) viola and electronics. 13' (J)
- Blackjack (2001) trombone and electronics in near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 10' (S)
- Blacklight (2002) cello and electronics in near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 11' (S)
- Organum (2002) organ 10'(S)
- BlackandJill (2003) soprano and electronics in near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 10' (J)
- Transpian (2006) piano and electronics in near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 10' (J)
- Toast (2007) Contrabass 7.5' (J)
ELECTRONIC
- Alignments (1974) U. Mich. elect studio. 5' (J)
- T & Serial (1990) MIDI. 5' (J)
- Wuuuu (1997) for solo Theremin. 7' (J)
- Unheard (2000) MIDI in 1/8 tones. 7' (J)
- Verklarte Neunzehn (2000) MIDI in 19 tones per octave. 6' (J)
- Hexy (2000) MIDI using a 1.3.5.11 hexany 6- note tuning on 1.11. 6' (J)
- Beepy (2001) MIDI using the Bohlen-Pierce scale 6' (J)
- The Tempest (2001) Music for Shakespeare's play (MIDI) in meantone tuning produced by
Pulse Ensemble Theatre ca. 30' (J)
- Blect (2002) MIDI in the near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 7' (J)
- Inner Voices (2005) for "z3ta+" softsynth in the near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 10'(J)
- microproj (2007) for "z3ta+" softsynth in the near just intonation "Blackjack" scale 9'(J)
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(J) = Josrep Publishing
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