Keyboards, made of diverse materials and multi-part structures, with applicability to a 10-finger-plus-2-foot independence, are relatively complex to the instrument maker, composer and performer.  Some blow their pitches like wind instruments, some pluck as string instruments, some hammer as percussion on strings, and still others produce their sounds through electronic means.  Numerous keyboard artists have accomplished incredible feats of technique and expression made possible by these instruments' 12-tone, multi-key layout and infinite sonic variability.  The music available here emerges as part of a process of learning more about these instruments in order to be able to use them in any situation.

Any
Piano
Marimba
Accompaniment
Improvisation


Any Keyboard

SONATA-ALLEGRO ON A FOUNDATION (2004)

    for solo keyboard

ÉTUDE TO MEMORIZE A PHONE NUMBER (2004)

    for any keyboard or two voices


Piano

MOONLIGHT (2002/2005)

        for two pianos w/ bass & percussion

ÉTUDE WITH SPLAT (And Motivic Economy) (2002)

    for solo piano


Marimba

MARIMBA DUET (2003)

    four movements for two five-octave instruments

TWO MOVEMENTS FOR SOLO MARIMBA (2003)


Accompaniment

WATER (2011)
    for soprano and piano,
    from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

From MY TRIUMPH (2011)

    for wide alto and piano,
    from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier

SONNET--TO SCIENCE (2011)

    experiment for soprano and piano,
    from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe

From FOREVER – IS COMPOSED OF NOWS (2011)
    simple piece for soprano and piano,
    from a poem by Emily Dickinson

THE MONSTER LICK (2005)

    for alto saxophone and piano
    OR

    for clarinet and piano

MARIPOSA (2002)

    for alto or mezzo and piano,
    from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millet


Keyboard Improvisation

AMERICA (2011)
    for very expressive soprano and jazz accompaniment,
    from a poem by Walt Whitman

SONATA IN FUNK MINOR (2006)

    improvisational chart for small or medium combo

NATURAL SELECTION (2001)

    for large jazz or dance ensemble,
    featuring solos by marimba or any keyboard

FANFARE AND PROCESSIONAL (2001)
    for small jazz or dance combo with keyboard