Current and Upcoming Projects

A song for soprano and double bass for Mary Bonhag and Evan Premo for a summer residency in Tuscanny.

A piece for piano trio and baritone for The Southwest Chamber Players for the 2012 Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC.

A dance suite for large chamber ensemble and sampler combining baroque dance forms with the sounds of Washington Heights.

Project Pieces

Pieces that are experimental, not quite completed or need to be revised or revisited:

Flute, Violin, Clarinet, Bassoon "Finger Painting" (2011)
Brass Quintet: "Lost and Found" (2011)
Violin and Double Bass: "Minuet and Barn Dance" (2010)
Viola and Clarinet: "Sarabande" (2010)
Flute and Cello: "Twitch" (2010)
Wind Quintet: "Uneasy Tides" (2007)
Solo Percussion and Orchestra "Faded, Manic, Black and White" (2007)

And Then I Remember

And Then I Remember is 50-minute long documentary oratorio based on the World War II stories of Taimi Lepasaar, my grandmother. At the core of the piece is recorded audio taken from a series of interviews with Taimi. In retelling this story of one woman's struggle to survive and protect her children during World War II, And Then I Remember explores the poetic aspects of memory and the strange relationship of storytelling to a sense of truth. It was premiered in March 2009 at the Duderstadt Video Studio at the University of Michigan.

And Then I Remember won the 2010 Opera Vista Competition and was performed in Houston in March, 2011. It is scheduled to be performed in New York City in the fall of 2011.

An Exciting Event

I play concertina and other instruments, sing and puppeteer occaisonally with An Exciting Event.