Chamber Music with Keyboard

My Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano was influenced by my friend Logan Skelton’s long and fruitful engagement with the music of George Gershwin.

Sometimes music seeks nothing more than to please the hearer, and that is the case with my Trio for Flute, Alto Saxophone, and Piano.

My French horn sonata was written for hornist Mary Garza, who influenced its early development.

These three short pieces are written in a gently jazzy style. The first and third pieces are very lyrical but the second has a tricky, playful character.

A substantial, three-movement work for piano and wind quintet. Recorded by Merryl Neille, Andreas Oeste, Joshua Anderson, Marh Garza, Dody Dean, and Mi-Eun Kim. Available from Blue Griffin Recordings.

This short trio in three movements commemorates the life and achievements of Margaret Houghrey, the “Bread Woman of New Orleans.”

This four-movement sonata swings between dark, lyrical moods (movements I and III) and energetic displays of virtuosity (movements II and IV).

This four-movement sonata is filled with rich melodic writing and intriguing textures.

My second Violin Sonata, in four movements, was written for my friend, violinist Amy Thiaville.

These three short, lyrical pieces were written in memory of a young girl, a high-school senior, who loved to play the saxophone and who, for reasons that we will never know, took her own life.

These three short works, alternately vivacious and lyrical, exhibit “passage after passage of glowing autumnal warmth.”

This sonata is a lyrical, evanescent, three-movement sonata with immediate appeal to audiences and players alike.

This three-movement sonata is dedicated to my longtime Loyola colleague, cellist Allen Nisbet, with whom I gave the first performance.

This Toccata is a high-energy show piece for violin and piano written for violinist William Scobie, a member of the Dallas Symphony, who gave the first performance of the piece at Loyola University New Orleans.

My viola sonata is a challenging, neo-Romantic work in three movements—highly chromatic, but tonal.

These three short pieces for oboe and piano are in an atonal style.

My first violin sonata is a taut, dissonant work in three movements.

Three short movements for clarinet, celeste, and cello in an atonal style.