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Gathering Stars for large percussion ensemble (2022)

Score

Two pieces for solo vibraphone (2021)

Finding, Believing Every Step

Finding, believing

Every Step

Gathering Stars

Two Autumn Reveries for clarinet and piano (2018)

Movement 1 Movement 2 Performance by Dr. Brooke Miller and Dr. William Lipke

Two Autumn Reveries movement 1 Brooke Miller and William Lipke mp3

Two Autumn Reveries movement 2 Brooke Miller and William Lipke mp3

Mysterious Valley for flute and marimba (2014)

Movement 1: Ethereal Movement 2: Hypnotic Movement 3: Pulsating

Mysterious Valley mvt 1

Mysterious Valley mvt 2

Mysterious Valley mvt 3

Ascendance for septet (soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, vibraphone, timpani, glockenspiel (2012)

Score Performance by Tracy Doyle, James Doyle, William Lipke, Beth Robison, Ben Paden, Chelsea Oden, and Josh Wohlrabe

Ascendance

* Commissioned by Adams State College in celebration of the name change to Adams State University

Raven Sketches for flute, oboe, clarinet, and piano (2012)

Movement 1: Footsteps of Morning Movement 2: Bring the Dancing Starts Movement 3: But Now Lie Still

Performance by the Trebuchet Trio, University of South Alabama

Raven Sketches mvt 1

Raven Sketches mvt 2

Raven Sketches mvt 3

Incantation for wind ensemble, flute, and vibraphone (2010)

Score

Incantation

Music for Alice in Wonderland composed and recorded for the Adams State College production

of Alice in Wonderland (2009). Three audio montages below.

Alice music montage 1

Alice music montage 2

Alice music montage 3

Under Fading Skies for string quartet (2009)

Movement 1: Mosaic Movement 2: Stillness Movement 3: Motioning

Movement 3 performed by the Playground String Quartet

Under Fading Skies mvt 1

Under Fading Skies mvt 2

Under Fading Skies mvt 3

O Lonely Watcher of the Skies: Five Songs from Chamber Music by James Joyce for soprano and piano (2008)

i. The Twilight Turns ii. Sleep Now, O Sleep Now iii. O' Lonely Watcher of the Skies

iv. I Would In That Sweet Bosom Be v. From Dewy Dreams

Movements 1-3 performed by Megan Buness, movement 4 performed by Deborah Kavasch

i. The Twilight Turns

iv. I Would In That Sweet Bosom Be

ii. Sleep Now O Sleep Now

iii. O Lonely Watcher of the Skies

v. From Dewy Dreams

Continuance for percussion ensemble (2007)

Score

Continuance

Nocturnal Passage for flute and piano (2006)

Movement 1: Falling Movement 2: Dancing Movement 3: Emerging

Performance by Tracy Doyle and William Lipke

Nocturnal Passage mvt 1

Nocturnal passage mvt 2

Nocturnal passage mvt 3

Where the Shadows Cease for chorus and orchestra, text by Oscar Wilde (2005)

Score

Where the Shadows Cease

Fear No More: Two Poems for Women's Chorus by William Shakespeare (2003)

Movement 1: Under the Greenwood Tree Movement 2: Fear No More the Heat of the Sun

Performance by the Adams State College Women's Chorus

i: Under the Greenwood Tree

ii. Fear No More the Heat of the Sun

Woodwind Quintet (2003)

Movement 1: The Descent of Winter Movement 2: The Rise After the Fall

Performance by the Juniper Quintet, Kent State University

i: The Descent of Winter

ii: The Rise After the Fall

Drift for string orchestra (2002)

Score

Performance by the Kent State University Orchestra

Drift