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Videos

  • I've got a lot of RAM (2003), video with music. Music by Dieter Speck, effects etc by Tim Risher, video by Tim Risher, words by Ted Stanley. Quicktime Movie! You need the quicktime player!
Solo Pieces

  • Harp (2007), Bass trombone and piano (almost arrangement of the same piece for bass trombone and wind band), three movements.
  • The Elements (2007), Clarinet and piano, four movements.
  • Something Something (2007-08), Cello and piano.
  • Beach Spring (2007), Organ.
  • Preludes and Postludes (2004- ), piano or small organ. For Tom DePlonty.
Music for the Church Year

  • Nunc Dimittis (2008), for choir (SATB) and organ
  • Penitential Psalms (2008), for choir (SATB)
  • Easter Mass (2007), for choir (SATB), handbells, string quartet and organ
  • Two Anthems (First Sunday in Advent) (2006), for solo soprano, choir(SATB)and organ
  • Behold the Lamb of God (Second Sunday in Advent) (2006), for choir (TTBB) and brass quintet
  • Gaudete (Third Sunday in Advent) (2006), for choir (SATB), strings and woodwind quintet
  • Three Anthems (Fourth Sunday in Advent) (2006), for solo soprano, choir (SATB), 2 trumpets and organ
  • Exultation (Christmas Day) (2006), for choir (SATB)
  • Let Us Sing the Birth (Christmas) (2006), for choir(SATB)and guitar
Vocal Music

  • Nursery Rhymes (2007), for bass voice, string quartet and piano
  • Four Haikus (2007), for tenor and piano
  • Hallelujah (2007), for choir (SATB) and organ
  • Aviary Corridor (2006),for soprano, flute, string quartet and piano. Poem by Charles Alexander. Performed at the University of Washington in October, 2006.
  • Elysian (2005), for choir (SATB) and organ
  • Parting Friends (2004), for choir (SATB)
  • Aviary Corridors (2001), lute and soprano. With a text by Charles Alexander.
  • Der Lattenzaun (2000), a capella choir.
  • Exultation (1998), 6 male voices, CT, CT, T, Bar, Bar, Bass.
  • The Diamond Cutter (1997), voice and piano.
  • Sermon (1994), choir (SATB), soloists (SATB), speaker and organ.
  • Words (1992), soprano and piano.
  • Broken Motet - Songs for the Virgin Mary (1989), baritone, oboe, english horn and 2 bassoons.
An opera:  Music from "The Moon Moth" (1993-)

  • Overture, chamber orchestra - fl, ob, cl, trpt, trbne, tba, vln I II, vla, clo, bss, pf, 2 perc.
  • Act 1, Scene 5, tenor and bass voices, chamber orchestra.
  • Act 1, Scene 7, tenor and chamber orchestra.
  • Entr'acte - Sirene, string orchestra.
  • Finale - "amid loud harrahs and glad cries", chamber orchestra.
Early Instruments

  • Arounds (2005), baroque flute, baroque guitar, throrbo, bass gamba. Commissioned by the Baroque Northwest for their 2005-2006 Season
  • Square and Circle (2003), violin, alto recorder, baroque guitar, bass gamba.
  • Some Music (2002), oboe (dbl. oboe d'amore), violin, cello, harpsichord (Quintus, North Port, Parting, Perpetuum).
  • Parting Friends (2002), soprano, lute, violin (from "the New Harp").
  • We Shall (2002), for Bill Carter; soprano voice and Lute
  • Cross and Oritur (2000), for ensemble Tintagel; two sopranos, baritone voice, flute, soprano recorder, psaltery, lute, harp and percussion. Cross
  • Line (1998), alto recorder and theorbo.
  • Prayers for Daily Life  (1998), 6 gambas.
  • 4 to 1, for Mark Davenport (1998), alto and tenor recorder, bass gamba, harpsichord.
  • Another Fast Movement (1997), alto recorder, violin, bass gamba, theorbo.
  • 3 in 2 in 1 (1997), alto recorder, violin, bass gamba, harpsichord.
  • Over and Under (1995), alto recorder, violin, bass gamba, baroque guitar.
Small Ensemble

  • Short Circuits (2007), flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, electric bass guitar, piano, drum set. Three movements - Piece I, Lounge, Voom.
  • Harp (2007), for James Wehr; an arrangement of the piece below for bass trombone and piano.
  • Harp (2004), for James Wehr; Solo bass trombone and small wind ensemble. In three movements - String, Frame and Strum  
  • Festina Lente (2002), for David Badagnani; violin, viola, oboe, alto and bass flute, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, piano, synthesizer, darabhuka (Lentulus, Velox). 
  • Elysian (2001), for Relache; oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, viola, bass (string and electric), keyboard synthesizer. 
  • The Wrong Sun (2000), violin, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard.
  • Doppel (1999), for John Frentzel; violin, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, keyboard.
  • The Petal Falling (1998), for David Badagnani; Chinese instrumental ensemble.
  • The Secret Chamber (1998), string quartet
  • Kleine Stücke und große Dinge, (1996), for David Badagnani; flute, oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, electric bass guitar, piano, drumset. 
  • Fall and Rise, (1996), for Tom DePlonty; violin, violoncello, piano.
  • String Quartet (1996).
  • Ein Stern fiel auf meinen Schoss (1995), wind ensemble.(Wehr's Music House)
  • Words and Deeds (1992-1993), for David Badagnani; oboe and string quartet.
  • Canons in English (1992), flute, oboe, alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, marimba, cello, bass trombone, piano.(Wehr's Music House)
  • Poems in English (1988), for Robert Ergenbright; bass voice, flute, oboe, alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, marimba, cello, piano.
Large Ensemble

  • Falling (2000), for large wind ensemble. Two movements - Sight, Sounding
  • Southern Harmony (2006), for large wind ensemble. Three movements - Kedron, Parting Friends, All is Well
Different Mixtures

  • Music From Nowhere (1997), sheng, dizi.
  • Private Music III (1993), for Tom DePlonty and David Badagnani, 2 pianos.
Electronic pieces and things like that

  • RAM  (2003), lyrics by Ted Stanley, Dieter Speck guitars, Tim Risher, voice.
  • Tar  (2003), Dieter Speck guitars, video coming soon!
  • Black Bags (2002),Radio play - Mike Gilmour, voice and librettist with electronic sounds.
  • Disharmony (2002)
  • Elysian (1994), electric ensemble (two electric guitars, electric bass guitar, two pianos, sheng, and percussion).
Brass Music

  • Prayers (1997), trombone sextet. (Wehr's Music House)
  • Inclinations (1996), 12 trombones. 
  • 4 by 4 (1990), for the MOBI Brass, brass quartet.(Wehr's Music House)
  • A and B (1990), tenor trombone, piano and vocoder.
  • Fanfares and Flourishes (1986), C trumpet and tape.
  • RPMusic (1985), bass trombone and tape.
  • Private Music I (1982), for Brian Foote; solo tenor trombone and trombone quartet. (Wehr's Music House)
  • Mass (1981), trombone quartet.(Wehr's Music House)
  • JWMusic (1981), trombone and piano.(Wehr's Music House)
Arrangements and transcriptions

  • New Britain (2002) voice and piano.
  • Sorrow's Tear (2001), for Bill Carter; soprano voice and lute.
  • Rolly Poly (1997), music by Fred Rose, with kind permission from Warner Brothers; alto recorder, violin, bass gamba, baroque guitar. 
  • Tsmindao Chmerto (1997), Georgian folk music, brass quintet.
  • Battaglia à8 , by Francesco Usper (1570 - 1641), solo alto, baritone, brass choir and continuo.
  • Sonatas (1995 - ), by Mathias Weckmann (1617 - 1674); various sonatas, transcribed for brass quintet and continuo.
  • Canzon Duodecima , by Giovanni Picchi (1572 - 1625);brass quartet and continuo.
  • Canzon Decima Quarta , by Giovanni Picchi; brass choir and continuo.
  • Three Early Works (1996), by Antoine Brumel and Heinrich Isaac; trombone trio.



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