Chamber Music

Most of the chamber music I've written was in college, others were originally conceived there.

	Duet for Flutes This canon at the augmented fourth was a study in the octatonic scale. It was an interesting challenge because I restricted the range of each flute to a minor tetrachord.
	Prelude This composition for woodwind quartet was a "motif" study for composition class.  I don't think my instructor had something this Baroque in mind.
	Fanfare One of the best things I wrote in college. When my instructor heard this composition for brass quartet, he gave it what was, for him, the ultimate compliment:  "Yeah, that works."
	Instrumental Committee This piece was scored for two oboes, a trombone, and a tuba. It was an melange of four strikingly different musical ideas. I thought this was one of the most miserable things I had ever written, but everyone else seemed to like it. Or maybe they were just being polite.
	Two Oboes Arguing About Their Favorite Key A duet for oboes. Here, I learned that if you write for oboes, you must give them a place to breathe. Oops.
	Album for Violin (1993) A collection of instructional pieces written for violin and piano.
	Flute Quartet in F Major (1998) A sonata in the Viennese Classical style for flute, two violins, and 'cello. I started work on this when I was still in college in the early '80s, and finished it early in 1998.

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