Chamber Ensemble

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Seven Scenes for Four Violins (2011)

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First performance: New York Chamber Music Festival at Symphony Space, NYC, 2011.
Instrumentation: Amplified Flute Quartet (12:30)
Denis Bouriakov, Bart Feller, Maron Khoury, Patircia Zuber, flutes

Seven Scenes for Four Flutes was written at the behest of a commissioning consortium headed by Patricia Zuber. The movements are titled I. Build II. Swirl III. Echo IV. Weave V. Drift VI. Jagged VII. Shimmer. Premiered at the New York Chamber Music Festival at Symphony Space, NYC.

A recording by Patricia Zuber multi-tracking all four parts appears on the album A Quiet Madness.

Originally written for four flues, Seven Scenes for Four Violins was recorded by by Dylan Hamme on May 5, 2025 at the Power Station BerkleeNYC for the album Scattered Threads.

Available at Universal Edition - Four Violins
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The Heavens Above for Two Brass Quintets (2023)

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Instrumentation: 2 trpt, hn, tbn, tuba and 2 trpt, hn, tbn, tuba (6:15)

Commissioned and premiered in 1998 by The Tuolumne Brass, a San Francisco brass quintet active in the 1990s.

This new version for two brass quintets (2023) plays off the antiphonal nature of the Renaissance brass music of Giovanni Gabrieli that he composed for the architecture of the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice.

Available at Universal Edition


Clouds and Flames (2010)

Instrumentation: piano trio: violin, cello and piano (14:30)

Clouds and Flames was commissioned by the Rome-based ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi.

The title Clouds and Flames and the names of the movements come from lyrical moments in Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin.

The movements, inspired by events in the novel, are a set of impressions on loss, remembrance and rebirth, and, a meditation on the tightrope wire walk of Philippe Petit between the World Trade Center towers on August 7, 1974 culminating in events surrounding 9/11.

Available at Universal Edition