commissions

I am available for commissioned work. I find that artistic collaboration is an opportunity for growth in new directions and I have benefited greatly from it as a composer and musician. Below is a partial list of my commissioned work.

independent film and video scores

  • Secrets of Santorini (2023)
  • SoHa Sunsetz (2022)
  • Touched (2021)
  • When I Was Lost (2020)
  • A Country Wedding (2019)
  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time (2018)
  • Like Joy In Memory (2016)
  • Telling Stories (2015)
  • 3 or 4 Things I Know About Her (2014)
  • Conjuring Venice (2012)
  • Grand Illusion (2011)
  • Kalamazoo Stories (2009)
  • Western Michigan University Computer Science Dept China Trip Documentary (2008)
  • Various Travelogues (2008-09)
  • Western Michigan University Promotional Video (2007)
  • Various Travelogues (2007)
  • Carnival In Venice (2006)
  • An English Mystery (2005)
  • Days & Nights In Venice (2005)
  • Mixed Company VI (2003)
  • Venice Preserved (2003)
  • Notes To Myself (2002)
  • For Love Of Kate (2002)
  • A Midlife Summer's Dream (2001)
  • Mixed Company II (2000)
  • Afternoon In Venice (2000)
  • Fiona's Journal (2000)
  • Y2K Zoo (1999)
  • The Burne Jones Window (1999)

theater

  • Sketch (2005)
    • complete score for this full-length production
  • Mixed Company VII (2004)
    • complete score for this full-length production
  • Mixed Company V (2003)
    • complete score for this full-length production
  • Mixed Company IV (2001)
    • complete score for this full-length production
  • Fortunes Of The Moor (1996)
    • complete score for this full-length sequel to Shakespeare's Othello, performed at Western Michigan University
  • Emma's Waltz (2001)
    • for theatrical production of the Jane Austin novel Emma
  • Equus (1995)
    • incidental music for full-length play

other

  • music for “the end of theory”
    • interactive online learning course (2014)
  • theme music for Model U.N. television program (2008)
    • Royal Oak Michigan
  • "so good, so far" (2006)
    • private song commission
  • Walking Without, Waking Within (1995)
    • for solo dance
  • Tempis Fugit (1996)
    • for dance ensemble
  • Symmetry (1995)
    • for dance ensemble
  • The Paintings Of Jennifer Leigh (1999)
    • artist exhibition
  • Campus Generations (1997)
    • theme music for cable television program

influences

Alan Parsons Project
Ólafur Arnalds
David Bowie
Kate Bush
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Claude Debussy
Depeche Mode
Brian Eno
Genesis
Philip Glass
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Kitaro
Mannheim Steamroller
Marillion
Moby
Nosound
Pat Metheny
Patrick O'Hearn
Mike Oldfield
Arvo Pärt
Pink Floyd
Jean-Luc Ponty
Zbigniew Preisner
Radiohead
Steve Reich
Max Richter
Tangerine Dream
Yann Tiersen
Vangelis
Steven Wilson