List of Works
The Trans Girl Who Fell From Heaven (2025)
a piece about my love for the dolls for orchestra with synthesizer. ca. 7’
Unrest (2025)
a piece about mixing stuff together for orchestra. ca. 9’
Layering (2025)
a piece about white tiki culture for marimba, vibraphone, and hand drummer. ca. 4’
String Quartet no. 1, “Death and Detransition” (2025)
a piece about being trans in the current age for string quartet with audio. ca. 27’
In The Zone (2025)
a piece about getting stuck in and strung out for two percussionists. uses standard percussion implements. ca. 5’
no way out but through (2025)
a piece about hard times for marimba sola. ca. 4’30”
An Actor Prepares (2025)
short opera for three voices (soprano, tenor, baritone) about Toronto actor Raymond Massey with libretto by Prof. Michael P. Albano. premiered January 2025. ca. 15’
Song for a Doomer (2025)
a pop song about what we do when the world fucking sucks.
wind comes up (2024)
a work for eight flutes about how everything changes. commissioned by Mark MacGregor. premiered January 2025. ca. 7’
fusion (2024)
a work for orchestra about panic. written for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2024 Jean Coulthard Readings. ca. 8’
soft hands (2023)
a work for four voices and two celli about the dangers of sailing while trans, commissioned by Slow Rise Music. ca. 9’
kitty (2023)
for bassoon solo, commissioned by Luka Eriksen. ca. 3’
Untitled opera (in progress)
trans opera about pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. In collaboration with Alaina Viau of Loose Tea Music Theatre and librettist Troy Defour. A 30-minute segment was performed in March 2022 by students at Wilfrid Laurier University; full premiere TBD.
sphagnum (2023)
a groovy work about bogs written for Standing Wave Ensemble. for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano. ca. 5’
hmcs halifax ii (2022)
monody about being trapped in a room for eighty years for mezzo-soprano and piano. premiered August 2022 at Opera From Scratch. ca. 18’
Grass Blooms Under the Wind (Insects, Birds, and Toads Rejoice) (2022)
a work about how cool the prairies are, written for the Prairie Saxophone Initiative. for alto and soprano saxophones with piano. premiered at NASA Region 9 Conference 2023. ca. 7’
Morning Light (2022)
written for the LAMP Composition Academy 2022. after the poem by Michelle Sylliboy (all rights reserved). for piano quintet (2 vlns, vla, vc, pno). ca. 8’
Glacial Suite (2022)
a work about how glaciers are melting scary fast. for brass quintet (2 tpts, hn, tbn, tba) and live electronics. ca. 8’
daylily (2021)
two-movement song cycle about transgender becoming. for trans voice, bass clarinet, and percussion. ca. 20’
Scenes from Childhood (2021)
written for Allegra Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Janna Sailor. a work about the perils of being a trans child. ca. 11’
trypanophobia (2020)
a work about needles for viola sola. ca. 12’
for i am sick with love (2020)
a setting of the biblical Song of Solomon for soprano voice and string quartet. ca. 28’
Kattegat (2020)
for orchestra. never performed because of COVID :( ca. 10’
Incantation to Raise the Dead (2019)
an edgy work about zombies for flute, clarinet, violin, cello piano, and percussion. ca. 6’
Storms over Camp Creek (2019)
based on my grandmother’s painting. for oboe/english horn, two saxophones, guitar, and percussion. arrangement available for string orchestra. ca. 8’
Creation Cycles (2019)
a work about the making of the world for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, and percussion. ca. 16’
Funeral Suite (2018)
a work about grief for clarinet and piano. ca. 10’
JUNO (2018)
about my parents’ cat. for bassoon solo. ca. 3’