Listen to samples of my music

I want everything I write to be playable and idiomatic to the instruments; years of playing in pits have taught me that eliminating frustrations for musicians helps the sanity of the entire cast. Music will be put into a software program and printed, so everything will be logical and legible; transpositions, transitions, cuts, and other adjustments can easily be made. I can also make professional-quality recordings, in case your circumstances don't allow for live performances.

A few years ago, I recorded a gospel CD with a woman from my church; I did the arrangements, production, editing, and played all the instruments. Listen to an excerpt from He Watches Out for You and Me (1MB); I play piano, organ, bass, guitar, lap steel, and percussion on this song.

I wrote a sonata for clarinet and piano, Technical Difficulties, in 2000. Here is the entire third movement, Eleventh Hour (10MB. I play piano on this one, and Patrick Hanudel plays clarinet. The movement is in 11/16 time, and has a lot of Bulgarian, jazz, and Klezmer influence, all in a classical structure).

The Ass and the Flute (2.4MB) was first published as a poem in a Boston newspaper in the 1840's. I set it for soprano, clarinet, and piano as part of Three Songs without Good Words. It's a mix of pop, cabaret, and art song. It was recorded in concert, and there are a few rhythmic hitches in it.

Check to Check (0.6MB) is from the music I wrote for Tuesdays with Morrie, as a substitute for Cheek to Cheek.