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Selected choral and piano music now available at sheetmusicplus.com!

WORKS FOR LARGE ENSEMBLE

Reef
2019, orchestra, 8 minutes
Performed October 8, 2019 by Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (the national theatre orchestra of Brazil) at Cine Brasília as part of São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival
Performed February 9, 2020 by the Alabama All-State Festival Orchestra, Frank Moody Music Building, University of Alabama
video
score and parts

Elevate
2019, orchestra, 2 minutes
score and parts

This Little Light
Traditional, arranged
2016, small orchestra, 3 1⁄2 minutes
Performed by the Samford University Orchestra, spring 2017 outreach trip to the Dominican Republic
score and parts

Figure and Ground
2012, wind ensemble, 13 minutes
Performed April 21, 2015 by the Samford University Wind Ensemble, Birmingham, AL
score and parts

Tangle: an off-kilter tango
2011, orchestra, 8 minutes
Reading session on April 30, 2014 by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra
score and parts

Sinfonietta for Strings
2010, string orchestra, 20 minutes
Performed by students of the Carroll County String Project:
August 14, 2010, Carroll Community College Amphitheater, Westminster, MD
August 15, 2010, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, New Windsor, MD
score-following video
score and parts

Chamber Symphony
2009, chamber orchestra with optional electronics, 30 minutes
score and parts

October Sunrise
2005, wind ensemble, 61⁄2 minutes
Performed October 21, 2009 by the Eastman Wind Orchestra, Rochester, NY
audio recording
score and parts

Convergence
2002, orchestra, 9 minutes
Reading session on March 5, 2003 by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra
score and parts



SOLO AND CHAMBER WORKS

This, too, is vanity
2019, piano trio, 5 1⁄2 minutes
score and parts

Particles III
2019, clarinet, trumpet, and piano, 41⁄2 minutes
Performed by the UAB Chamber Trio, April 7, 2019, University of Alabama at Birmingham
score and parts

Solar Wind
2018, marimba and piano, 6 minutes
Performed by Ji Hye Jung and Melissa Rose, November 1, 2018, University of Alabama at Birmingham
score and parts

Exoplanet
2018, tuba/euphonium quartet, 6 minutes
score and parts

Dyad
2017, violin duo, 6 minutes
Performed by Miolina NYC, October 13, 2017, Birmingham New Music Festival
Slated for forthcoming release on the sophomore album by Miolina NYC
score and parts

Metallurgy
2017, tuba/euphonium quartet with optional drum set, 6 minutes
Performed by Matt Watson, Baxley Roberts, James Barr, Brandon Whitworth, Kerry Joiner, April 24, 2019, Samford University’s Brock Recital Hall
Performed by Leila Rasas et al. April 22, 2018, Samford University’s Brock Recital Hall
score and parts

Quartet for Strings
2016, 14 minutes
Performed February 7, 2017 by Jordan Kirchner and Kathryn Lamb, violins; Anna Taylor, viola; Keats Rivas, cello
score and parts

Sonata for Rock Band: do
2016, electric guitar, synthesizers, electric bass, drum kit, 14 minutes
score and parts

Outside the Bluebird
2015, clarinet, bassoon, marimba, Appalachian dulcimer, resonator guitar with slide, double bass, 7 minutes
Performed February 18, 2016 at the College Music Society’s Southern Regional Conference,
Birmingham-Southern College (AL), having been selected from a nation-wide call via peer-review process
Available on Mark Lackey’s Fairy Tale on Centaur Records
score and parts

Paraphasia for percussion quartet
2015, 5 minutes
Performed April 28, 2016 by Iron Giant, Hoover (AL) Library Theater
score and parts

Particles II
2015, wind quintet and piano, 9 minutes
Performed April 10, 2016 on a Birmingham Art Music Alliance concert, Brock Recital Hall at
Samford University
score and parts

The Paths of the Seas
2014, clarinet and piano, 8 minutes
Available on the Brian Viliunas album Agents of Espionage on the Potenza Music label
score and parts

Particles
2013, clarinet quartet, 51⁄2 minutes
Available on the Brian Viliunas album Agents of Espionage on the Potenza Music label
score and parts

Starscapes
2013, solo piano, 10 minutes
Performed October 13, 2019 by Edward Forstman, Birmingham New Music Festival
Performed September 7, 2019 by Edward Forstman, Spectrum, New York City
Performed August 30, 2019 by Edward Forstman, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, New York
City
Performed August 17, 2019 by Edward Forstman, St. John’s Reformed Church, Red Hook,
New York
Performed February 7, 2017 by Kathryn Fouse, Brock Recital Hall, Samford University
Performed October 18, 2016 by Kathryn Fouse, Brock Recital Hall, Samford University
Performed August 23, 2014 by Kathryn Fouse, Birmingham New Music Festival
Available on Mark Lackey’s Fairy Tale on Centaur Records
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Fairy Tale
2005, flute, guitar, cello, percussion, 13 minutes
Performed November 8, 2014 by Hillary Tidman, Alan Goldspiel, Laura Usiskin, Seth
Noble at Suzuki Talent Education Program (STEP) Birmingham
Performed April 27, 2005 by Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart, flute, Zane Forshee, guitar,
Caleb Jones, cello, and Kevin Clarke, percussion, at The Peabody Conservatory
Available on the Mark Lackey album Fairy Tale on Centaur Records
score and parts



Sonata for Viola: do
2001, solo viola, 14 minutes
Performed February 7, 2017 by Angie Flaniken, Brock Recital Hall, Samford University
Performed January 27, 2005 by Victor de Almeida on the Thursday Noon Concert series at
The Peabody Conservatory
Performed July 19, 2004 by Victor de Almeida on the Konzertreihe der AIMS Artists, Festsaal,
Odilien-Institut, Graz, Austria
Performed April 19, 2001 by Alice Hanel, recital at The Peabody Conservatory
score and parts


VOCAL AND CHORAL WORKS

Song Cycle: Family (texts by the composer)
2016, baritone and piano, 9 minutes
Performed February 7, 2017 by Joseph Hopkins, baritone and Kathryn Fouse, piano, Brock Recital Hall, Samford University
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In The Beginning Was the Word
2013, Chorus SATB, 4 minutes
Performed February 7, 2017, student chorus, Robert Turnage cond., Samford University
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New Song (Setting of Psalm 96:1, 11-13)
2016, Chorus SATB, organ, and percussion, 4 minutes
Performed February 7, 2017 by students under the direction of Robert Turnage, with Brooke Proctor, piano; Chanse Nelson, percussion, Brock Recital Hall, Samford University
score and parts


Dreams (Setting of the poem by Victor Daley)
2015, soprano, flute, and harp, 5 minutes
Performed November 7, 2015 by the Druid City Ensemble, Southside Centre for the Arts & Humanities, Birmingham, AL
Performed November 8, 2015 by the Druid City Ensemble, University of Montevallo (AL)
score and parts


“And who shall declare his generation”
2013, two sopranos and one baritone, 1 minute
Performances by Rhymes With Opera at JACK in Brooklyn, NY (July 11, 2013) and at
AREA 405 in Baltimore, MD (July 13, 2013).
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Works using electronic media

100.40.107 (including fragments from the Psalms)
2018, clarinet and fixed media, 15 minutes
Performed February 23-24, 2018 by Brian Viliunas, cl., with student dancers, and video projections by Scott Fisk, as part of Dance: A Collective directed by Alisa McCool
performance materials

Omnis Lingua
2011, 2014, voice and computer or cello and computer, 8 minutes
Performed February 4, 2015 by Craig Hultgren on his Cello Retrospective at Moonlight on the Mountain, Birmingham, AL
performance materials



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