Concert, Classical, and Ensemble works
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2022: Nomads: The Four Winds - For Cello and String Quartetexpand_more
ca. 24″
For Cello and String Quartet
Premiered November 22, 2021 By the Daedalus String Quartet and Kinan Abou-afach
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2022: Untold Elegy - For Mezzo Soprano and String Quartetexpand_more
ca. 9″
For Mezzo Soprano and String Quartet
Premiered June 26, 2021
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2021: Impromptu for Celloexpand_more
ca. 3″
For solo cello
Premiered March 3rd, 2021 By Cellist D Scot Williams
Commissioned by Mary Ann Haubenreich for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.For score and/or a recording: please contact
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2021: Munajat (soliloquy) - For SATB Choir and optional Cello & Guitarexpand_more
Munajat (soliloquy)
Poetry by Ibn Arabi (1165-1240)
Duration ca 5′Commissioned by the Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Choir
J. Scott Ferguson, Conductor
Made possible by the Sylvia Monti Anderson Commissioned Choral Work Fund
honoring Delta Omicron at Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFor score and/or a recording: please contact
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2020: Fiction for Orchestra and a Poetexpand_more
Based on a Chamber work with the same title.
Read more about fiction here
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2019: Exodus (Expanded version) - For Brass Sextetexpand_more
Exodus (Expanded version) – For Brass Sextet: Originally composed for Curtis’ The Brass Project. 2 Trumpets, French Horn, 2 Trombones, and Tuba.
Commercially recorded (one movement only): Cityscaping CDFor score and/or a recording: please contact
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2018: Sand, Land, and Falling Metal - For Guitar and String Quartetexpand_more
For Guitar and String Quartet.
The is a revised and expanded version based on a commission by LiveConnections. Supported in part through a grant from the American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter. Originally for Guitar, Violin, Qanun, Oud, Cello and Percussion.
Premiered in 2015, by Jason Vieaux and Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble.For score and/or recording availability: please contact
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2017: Speak - For Orchestraexpand_more
Originally written for a smaller ensemble. Speak was revised-edited for the full orchestra.
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2016: Fiction for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Double Bass, and Tapeexpand_more
Premiered in 2016 by Ensemble39.
Commissioned by LiveConnections and based on 2 short poems by Nazih Abou-afach.
Written for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Double Bass, and Tape (Prokofiev’s same instrumentation as Prokofiev’s Op. 39)
Read more about fiction here
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2016: Message In a Bottle - Guitar and Harpexpand_more
For Guitar and Harp. A suite-like work in 4 movements.
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2016: Exodus - For Brass Sextetexpand_more
Exodus – For Brass Sextet: Originally composed for Curtis’ The Brass Project. 2 Trumpets, French Horn, 2 Trombones, and Tuba.
Commercially recorded: Cityscaping CDFor score and/or a recording: please contact
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2015: Of Nights and Solace - Fantasia on Andalusian Muwash'shah Poetryexpand_more
For Mixed Choir, Ūd, Qanūn, Violin, Cello, Arab Percussion and Solo Female Voice.
Premiered in 2015 by Dalal Abu Amneh, The Crossing Choir, and Al-Bustan Ensemble.
Commissioned by Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture with the support of the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.Movements:
I. Moonrise – Prelude
II. hayyi al-wujuh (Greet These Faces)
III. Forsaken
IV. Interlude “A la Dulap”
V. Ya man ‘Ada (You who Left and Passed)
VI. SunriseFor score and/or recording availability: please contact
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2005: Chronicles I (à la samā'ī) - String Quartet (Revised 2019)expand_more
A string quartet, based loosely on the Sama’i traditional music form.
To be premiered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by the New Europian Ensemble NEuE, December 11, 2019.
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