Works

Orchestra:

McAllisterLinMurphy2016ASAFacultyRecital

Timothy McAllister, Chien-Kwan Lin, and Otis Murphy perform “Everything that rises” at the 2016 American Saxophone Academy. Eastman School of Music Hatch Recital Hall. Photo credit: Kelsey Broersma

Fracture / Mosaic (2021)

Gilded Scenes (2018)

Gilt (2017)

“Sleeping I am carried…” (2014)

Hommage á Rube Goldberg (2013)

Wind Ensemble:

Un-Masqued (2019)

Kinetic dance, for two scrap metal birds (2014)

A very hungry butterfly (2012)

Large Ensemble (nine or more):

Figment (2022)

stain, bloom, moon, rain (2020)

In this world (2017/2018)

Unravelings (2015)

Burn Bright (2013)

Songs for My People (2013)

Incensories (2011)

Small Chamber Ensemble (2-8 players):

Hollows (2021)
for Octet

Avaloch Sketches (2021)
for Flute and Cello

Masks (2019)
for Alto Saxophone, Cello, Harp and Percussion

Ornithology S (2018)
for Saxophone Quartet

Into the empty sky (2017)
for Flute (doubling Alto Flute and Piccolo), Clarinet (doubling Bass Clarinet), Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion, and Live Electronics

Tangled lines, luminous tangents (2016)
for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano

Lauda for the high and low places (2016)
for Flute (doubling Piccolo), Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Percussion

Fire-fangled (2016)
for Flute and Piano

He Dreams a Mother (2016)
for Soprano with Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Viola, Cello, Piano, and Percussion

Through the Blackbird’s Eye (2015)
for Flute (doubling Piccolo), Oboe, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion, and Live Electronics

Everything that rises (2014)
for 3 Soprano Saxophones

In the fading wake (2014)
for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano

Tracery (2013)
for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano

An echo from the curio (2012)
for Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn

I want the circle broken (2012)
for Alto Saxophone, Percussion, and Piano

Acts from an Exhibition of Living Curiosities (2011)
for Brass Quintet

Bustle (2010)
for Flute, Bassoon, Violin, Double Bass, Percussion, and Piano

Concertino Pastorale (2010)
for Oboe, Clarinet, and Piano

Electroacoustic:

Into the empty sky (2017)
for Flute (doubling Alto Flute and Piccolo), Clarinet (doubling Bass Clarinet), Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion, and Live Electronics

Through the Blackbird’s Eye (2014)
for Flute (doubling Piccolo), Oboe, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion, and Live Electronics

Labyrinth Meditations (2014)
for Oboe and Electronics

Solo Instrument:

A line through the night (2022)
for Alto Saxophone

Labyrinth Meditations (2014)
for Oboe and Electronics

Vocal Music:

the sustaining air (2021)
for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano

Ink Dark (2018)
for Mezzo-Soprano and String Quartet

He Dreams a Mother (2016)
for Soprano with Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Viola, Cello, Piano, and Percussion

Songs for My People (2013)
Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
Texts by Tracy K. Smith, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Patchen, Margaret Atwood, and A.R. Ammons

Three Sonnets for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano (2010, rev. 2011)
Texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Opera:

Alexandra (2015)
3 singers and 13 instrumentalists
Libretto by Joshua McGuire