ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS

A great crowd-pleaser, "Bagels and Biscuits" is a fun novelty piece for a cappella SATB choir. You can order it here.  And you can watch many different choirs perform it here.  (Keep scrolling down.)

Whirlaway, for string quartet, is an homage to my favorite race horse, Whirlaway (1938-1953). The world premiere was presented in 2017 by the Channel Islands String Quartet.  Order and hear it here.  

This popular work is a one-movement celebration of the 12-bar blues. Order it here.

A simple song about peace and love, for voice and piano. Check it out here.

A piano solo for the intermediate piano student, this is a haunting melody in a slow rag style. See it and hear it here.

A piano solo in the style of the rag master, Scott Joplin, Lara's Rag is primarily for the advanced piano student. You can hear it and order it here.  Dedicated to Lara Korneychuk.

Maddy's Lullaby is an easy two-part piano solo written for Maddy Korneychuk in celebration of her birth in 2000.  Listen to it and order it here.

The Mystery Rag is a piano solo--a fun piece for the advanced piano student, dedicated to Sasha Korneychuk. Take a listen, and if you like it, order it here.

Blues for Lara is another piano solo in the 12-bar blues form. Written for the intermediate piano student, this piece was premiered at Lara's first piano recital.  Hear it and order it here.

This is the official Alma Mater for California State University Channel Islands. Hear it performed by the University Chorus. 

For SATB chorus and piano, premiered by The Choral Project of San Jose, Daniel Hughes, Artistic Director and Conductor.

 A complete oratorio for choir, soloists and orchestra

For piano solo featuring extended and original notation. Cited in New Directions in Music, by David Cope.  With examples

 For concert band. Traditional graduation march at CSU Channel Islands. World Premiere by San Jose State University Concert Band

For concert band. Performed in concert by the San Jose State University Concert Band

With piano, based on English nursery rhymes  

An anthem for SATB choir and organ, commissioned by Helen Wich, Music Director at Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Kentucky.

For Women's Chorus, horn and oboe. Poem by Thomas Hardy

Winner, Phi Mu Alpha national composition competition, Vincent Persechetti, judge 

 For a cappella choir, Santa Barbara Music Publishing 

 for any number and combination of instruments 

For flute, harpsichord and pre-recorded sounds 

  For flute and piano. Difficult  

For soprano, flute and piano. Poem by Kathleen Raine 

 for clarinet, horn and piano. Commissioned by San Diego State University 

For piano solo. An early work. Moderately easy 

For unaccompanied SATB choir