1) the effort to return to the cities of the sane (2022) for bass clarinet (12’) 2) in Platonia (2023-4) for bass clarinet and piano (26’) 3) passing bells (2003-20) for piano (50’) One of the things that has always…

It is characteristic of my process that works take a long time to progress from concept to concert, and my piece for harpsichordist Luca Quintavalle that I first mooted back in 2020 is no exception, having taken fully five years…

After three decades of neglect, I have returned to the solo flute idiom. After the original Flute Tetralogy, comprising vier darmstädter aphorismen (1986-89); dé/ployé (1987); sulle scale della Fenice (1986–89); and closing lemma (1987–91), I felt that I had pretty…

The first Iso-étude that I wrote under COVID lockdown was a solo vibraphone piece called Luminous, and last November percussionist Zachary Wilson gave it its second airing in a concert at the University of Maryland. Zachary’s performance has an elegant…

Staying with saxophones, last February the saxophonist Daniel Sclafani gave a second performance of the piece I wrote for him, silence, and the video of that outing is now on the webpage for the piece. Silence embraces the self-contradictoriness of…