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Performed Pieces

Pieces Performed by Professional Ensembles

Overture for Full Orchestra (winner of the Texas Orchestra Directors Composition Contest in 2001)

1995 premiered by the Chamber Symphony of the Metrocrest, Nick Paraskevas, conductor

Sonata for Viola and Piano

2000 ~ 3 performances by Ron and Inmi Houston: Mesquite Arts Center (premiere), Eastfield College, and Dallas Public Library
2002 Basically Beethoven Festival and Spectrum Recital Series; David Hermann of the Ft. Worth Symphony and Patrice Koenig

Interview: A Song Cycle for a Violinist

2006 premiere at the Nasher Sculpture Center; Motoi Takeda and Steve Harlos of the Dallas Symphony
2006 Festival of Sound Recital Series; Motoi Takeda and Steve Harlos

Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet

2006 premiere in Kansas City “Summerfest” 2 performances by musicians of the Kansas City Symphony
2007 Spectrum Recital Series; musicians from the Ft. Worth Symphony
2007 Voices of Change; members of the Dallas Symphony

Letters from the Fallen, for cello and piano

2007 premiered by Voices of Change; Kari Nostbakken of the DSO and Joe Illick, conductor of the Ft. Worth Opera
2007 Festival of Sound; Nicole Hanson Strydon of the Ft. Worth Symphony and Joe Illick

Four Solos for Violin and Piano

Performed many times between 1995 and 2008; Bruce Wittrig, Dallas Symphony, violin (with various pianists)

Song of Ruth, for viola and piano

2006 premiere by Jane Aten, viola and Margaret Mulvey, pianist
2006 – 2008 several performances by Kathryn Hoffer of the Anchorage (Alaska) Symphony

Purcellesque for Violin and Viola