Chamber/Small Ensemble Works
mezzo-soprano and string quartet
Commissioned for the Parker Quartet and Fleur Barron by the Salata Institute at Harvard, the Harvard Department of Music Blodgett Fund, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music with generous additional support by the Harvard Provostial Fund, the Harvard Office for the Arts, and the Mahindra Humanities Center.
string quartet
Commissioned by and dedicated to JACK Quartet with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, 92nd Street Y, and Wigmore Hall, in celebration of the group’s 20th anniversary.
2 pianos/keyboards + 2 percussion
Commissioned by the Earle Brown Charitable Trust for Yarn/Wire.
string quartet
Commissioned by the Parker Quartet in celebration of their 20th anniversary.
tenor, violin, piano/keyboard, pre-recorded sounds, spoken voices (recorded or live)
Commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival for the American Modern Opera Company.
Noh voice, bass flute, cello
Commissioned by and dedicated to Ryoko Aoki and ensemble-no. Part of Noh x Contemporary Music Vol. 7.
piano quintet
Commissioned for Gilles Vonsattel and the Escher Quartet by Music Accord, Inc.
string quartet, horn, and piano
Film by Joseph Koerner and Christian Bruun
flute + string quartet
Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University for the Spektral Quartet and Claire Chase. First performance: University of Maryland, April 24, 2016.
piano quintet
Commissioned by the Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Frühling.
8 musicians with electronics
Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress for the Talea Ensemble.
10 musicians
Part one premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble; part two premiered by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.
7 musicians
Commissioned by and premiered at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, 24 October, 2008.
4 musicians
Written for and premiered by Wayne Lee, Danny Goldman, Peter Anderegg, and Vassilis Varvaresos.
violin, cello, piano
Premiered by the Callisto Ensemble. Revised version premiered by Longleash.
Chamber opera in ten scenes
Libretto by Anthony Cheung, after Lu Xun