selected works

“Idioms” solo series (2024-2025)

“Idioms” is an ongoing series of solo works questioning the semantic potential of instrumental music. Each piece takes its name from a linguistic or literary concept that inspired it. Idiom III (Quarrel) was premiered June 2025 by Mark Broschinsky at the Mise-En festival in New York. The piece attempts to capture the charge and physicality of argumentative speech.

Lament for Sumer and Urim

Lament for Sumer and Urim, premiere takes its text from an ancient Sumerian “city lament”, a style of poem that commemorated a conquered or destroyed city. Through blackout-style text adaptation and contemporary instrumentation, the piece comments on the timelessness and universality of occupation and displacement, letting the veil between past and present grow uncomfortably thin. The work supports vocal lines with instrumental textures that alternate between consonance and cacophony, mirroring the text’s oscillation between the devastation of loss and an insistence on hope. Incorporating dense harmonies, extended techniques, and moments of indeterminate intonation, the composer aims to communicate the human cost and anguish of occupation, ecological destruction, and land loss. Premiered Dec 2024 by Temple University New Music Ensemble. Score upon request.