Orchestra & Band
Featured work: Une Cité Moderne
A work for oboe and orchestra inspired by the architecture of Robert Mallet-Stevens, commissioned and premiered by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, Heather Armstrong, oboist.
Fandango deAlbuquerque
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Premiered by the Luther College Concert Band (2022)
3.5 minutes
concert band
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Knitted Together
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Commissioned and Premiered by the Oneota Valley Community Orchestra (2021)
5 minutes
orchestra
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Veni, Veni Emmanuel
This version Commissioned and Premiered by the Fort Dodge Area Symphony (2016)
5.5 minutes
brass quintet and orchestra
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O Nobilissima Viriditas
Commissioned and premiered by the Luther College Symphony Orchestra, Dan Baldwin, conductor (2014)
12 minutes
orchestra
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Une Cité Moderne
Commissioned and premiered by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, Heather Armstrong, oboist (2012)
20 minutes
oboe and orchestra
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Dürer Triptych
Commissioned and premiered by Lutheran Summer Music (2012)
12 minutes
orchestra
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Canticum Graduum
Commissioned and premiered by the Iowa City Community String Orchestra, Carey Bostian, conductor (2015)
3 minutes
strings and percussion
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The Devil’s Kettle
Commissioned and premiered by the Luther College Concert Band (2010)
15 minutes
concert band
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Neutral Ground
Commissioned and premiered by the Water City Chamber Orchestra (2008)
10 minutes
chamber orchestra
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Vespertine
Commissioned and premiered by the Water City Chamber Orchestra (2008)
5 minutes
chamber orchestra or jazz big band
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rocks, rivers, earth, and sky
Commissioned and premiered by the Luther College Sympony Orchestra (2006)
15 minutes
orchestra
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October Skies
Commissioned and premiered by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic (2004)
12 minutes
concertino for piano with orchestra
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watersmooth-silver
Premiered by the High Mountain Symphony (2004)
10 minutes
orchestra
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Four Short Scenes
Premiered by the CIM Contemporary Ensemble (2002)
8 minutes
chamber orchestra
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Bat out of hell!
Premiered by the Laval High School String Orchestra (1999)
4 minutes
string orchestra
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La Quinta del Sordo
Commissioned and premiered by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (1998)
17 minutes
chamber orchestra
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Yniswyrddn
Premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1997)
9 minutes
orchestra
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The Last Three Minutes
Premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (1997)
3.5 minutes
orchestra
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Cumulo Nimbus
Premiered by the Cleveland School of the Arts (1996)
3 minutes
string orchestra
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Sinfonietta
Premiered by the Luther College Philharmonia (1995)
20 minutes
orchestra
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“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares”
Commissioned by the Greater Lansing United Nations Council (1996)
12 minutes
orchestra
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