If you would like to explore the possibility of commissioning a piece of music from me, please be in touch. (One may either find the "contact me" button at the bottom of the page, or click here.) I am open to writing all sorts of music, whether for band, orchestra, chamber ensembles or odd assortments of instruments; acoustic or amplified; for children or adults, professionals or amateurs; original music or arrangements. I love to put sounds together to create interesting and compelling shapes, and I love to work with others in developing ideas.
Listed below, in reverse chronological order, are the organizations and individuals who have commissioned me to write music for them. You'll find a broad mixture which reflects the comments above. Please do be in touch if you'd like to work something out for you or your group!
Atlantic Reed Consort
On Further Reflection (2016)
Eudaimonia, a Purposeful Period Band
The Sick Rose (2016), setting a poem of the same name by William Blake
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Eudaimonia, a Purposeful Period Band
September (2015), setting a poem of the same name by Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Longy School of Music
Jane’s History of England (2014)
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Flying Flutistas
Beyond There and Back (2013)
Redline Brass Quintet
Conquest of Cold (2012)
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New Gallery Concert Series, Sarah Bob, artistic director:
What the Honeybee Knows (2012) for piano and percussion
Firebird Ensemble, Kate Vincent, artistic director:
Blue Bang (2011) for new music ensemble with blues piano
funded by Kickstarter
Longy School of Music, for SeptemberFest 2011:
Opposites Become Equals (2011) for improvising bass clarinet and piano
North Cambridge Family Opera Company, David Bass, director:
Semaphore (2011) and A Parapsychological Pledge (2010) for chorus
Spencer Aston, trumpet:
Hollow Box (2010) for trumpet and resonating piano
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble:
Ember (2009) for 2 clarinets and 2 accordions
Longy at the RegattaBar series:
Whipping Post (2008) arrangement of Allman Brothers song for string quartet:
Longy School of Music, for the inauguration of Karen Zorn as President:
Fanfare for KZ (2007) for three trumpets
Music Department of Concord Academy, Concord, MA:
Deepening Groove Near Walden Pond (2007) for chamber orchestra
Fromm Foundation for Radnofsky Quartet (with Composers in Red Sneakers):
Groan (2005) for saxophone quartet
listen (publisher website)
Vivian Montgomery:
Breathing Memory (2004) for accordion, harpsichord, and pre-recorded CD
Timothy McAllister, saxophone:
Crows (2002) for alto saxophone and soprano
Beachwood Middle School, Cleveland, OH:
Brown Dog (2001) for middle school band
Valley Presbyterian Church, Chagrin Falls, OH:
Oh Mary (2001) for SATB choir and string orchestra
Cleveland Composers Guild:
Charon (2001) for unaccompanied bass clarinet
Galhano/Montgomery Duo, funding provided by Iowa Arts Council:
Twisted Little Ground (1999) for recorder and harpsichord
Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble,
funding provided by the American Composers Forum's
Composers Commissioning Project:
Hard Weather Makes Good Wood (1999) for string quartet and tape
Jeremy Koch, saxophonist:
Light Possessing Darkness (1997) for alto saxophone, piano
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Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Paul Gambill, music director:
Dark Hollow (1996) for string orchestra with flugelhorn solo
Timothy Northcut, tuba:
String of Pearls (1994) for unaccompanied tuba
Antiqua Nova concert series:
Two Poems of Wendell Berry (1994) for soprano, clarinet, violoncello
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, David Stock, music director:
Spin Control (1994) for chamber orchestra
Detroit Chamber Winds:
Elegy (Separation) (1992) for flugelhorn, oboe, clarinet, violin
Vivian Sarah Montgomery:
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road (1992) for harpsichord
see program note and download score
Davidson College Music Department:
Excursive Sonata for thirteen musicians (1988) for wind ensemble