Six from the Songbook (2025)

for tenor and string quartet

    I. (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 (Bobby Troup / Nat King Cole)

    II. Where or When (Richard Rodgers / Peggy Lee)

    III. Chattanooga Choo-Choo (Mack Gordon / Glenn Miller)

    IV. Be Anything (But Be Mine) (Irving Gordon / Peggy Lee)

    V. I Concentrate on You (Cole Porter / Peter Myers)

    VI. Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael / Nat King Cole)

Commissioned by Oberlin College for Benjamin Bliss and the Verona Quartet

 

Three Persian Songs (2024)

for voice and piano trio

    I. To maraa jaan o jahaani (You, the life and the world)

    II. Dide daryaa konamo (My eyes brim with the sea)

    III. Yeki dard o yeki darmaan pasandaad (One chooses pain, one chooses remedy)

Original songs by Mahsa Vahdat based on classical Persian poetry

Commissioned by Musaics of the Bay

 

Piazzolla: Adiós Nonino

for five cellos (2024)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Janáček: Good Night! from On an Overgrown Path, Vol. I

for five cellos (2023)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Twenties Tunes (2022)

for string quartet

    I. Cotton Club Stomp (Duke Ellington) | video

    II. I’m Coming Virginia (Donald Heywood)

    III. In the Dark (Bix Beiderbecke)

    IV. Tea for Two (Vincent Youmans)

commissioned by the Verona Quartet

 

Joe Hisaishi: Merry-Go-Round of Life from “Howl’s Moving Castle” | video

for five cellos (2022)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

video

 

Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

for five cellos (2022)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 | video | score

for solo cello (2020)

 

Debussy: Les collines d’Anacapri (The Hills of Anacapri)

for five cellos (2020)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Franz Schubert: Der Leiermann

for string quartet (2019)

Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet

 

Britten: Four Sea Interludes

for five cellos (2019)

    I. Dawn

    II. Sunday Morning

    III. Moonlight

    IV. Storm

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Fauré: Cinq mélodies “de Venise”

for five cellos (2018)

    I. Mandoline

    II. En sourdine

    III. Green

    IV. À Clymène

    V. C’est l’extase

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Debussy: Clair de Lune | video | score

for five cellos (2018)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Chick Corea: Spain | video

for five cellos (2018)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance | video | sc0re

for five cellos (2018)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Debussy: Four Preludes

for five cellos (2016)

    I. De pas sur le neige (Footsteps in the Snow)

    II. Sérénade Interrompue (Interrupted Serenade) | album

    III. La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) | video | album | score

    IV. Minstrels

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Brahms: Intermezzo in Eb, op. 117 no. 1 | video | score

for five cellos (2016)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Rachmaninoff: Vocalise | album | video | score

for five cellos (2016)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

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Schubert: Des Tages Weihe

for five cellos (2016)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Fauré: L’horizon Chimérique

for five cellos (2015)

    I. La mer est infinie…

    II. Je me suis embarqué…

    III. Diane, Séléné…

    IV. Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimes...

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Fauré: Nocturne no. 13

for five cellos (2015)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Gershwin: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

for piano quintet (2015)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet

 

Irving Berlin: Let’s Face the Music and Dance

for piano quintet (2015)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet

 

Jerome Kern: The Way You Look Tonight / Never Gonna Dance

for piano quintet (2015)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet

 

Mikhail Glinka: Valse-Fantaisie

for string quartet (2015)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet

 

Schubert: Erlkönig | video | score

for five cellos (2015)

arranged for SAKURA Cello Quintet

 

Glazunov: Pizzicato and Three Variations from Raymonda

for violin and piano (2015)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet

 

Maurice Ravel: Blues from Violin Sonata

for violin, cello, and bass (2014)

Commissioned by the Da Camera Society

 

Irving Berlin: It Only Happens when I Dance with You

for piano quintet (2014) (with Luanne Homzy)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet

 

Jerome Kern: I’m Old-Fashioned

for piano quartet or quintet (2014)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet

 

Gluck: Gavotte from Orfeo ed Euridice

for string quartet (2014)

Commissioned by American Contemporary Ballet