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orchestra
2024
2022
2020
To Meet, Trembling 2222 4231 2perc strings 5’
Commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director.
Premiered 11 May 2024, Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON.
deep field 2(picc)222 4221 2perc hp strings 3’
Commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director.
Premiered 12-15 October 2022, Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON.
waves, breaking, reflecting light 2222 2210 2perc pno hp 66442 10’
Commissioned by Esprit Orchestra with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered 12 May 2022, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON.
large ensemble
2024
2022
2019
2017
2016
winter lunar halo 1111 1110 perc 2111 15’
Commissioned by Le Nouvelle Ensemble Modern. Jean-Michaël Lavoie, Director and Lorraine Vaillancourt, Conductor.
Premiered 15 October 2025, Cinquième salle de la Place des Arts, Montreal, QC.
ways of becoming vln solo + 1111 1110 2perc 11111 12’
Commissioned by the Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble, The Royal Conservatory with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Brian Current, Music Director. Premiered 22 April 2025, Temerty Theatre, Toronto, ON.
as within, so without 1111 1110 hp perc 11111 7’30”
Commissioned by Esprit Orchestra with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered 5 April 2019, Trinity-St. Paul’s United, Toronto, ON.
Awarded Third Place, SOCAN Foundation Award for Young Composers, Large Ensemble Category
Additional performance: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, 4 May 2023, Hamilton, ON.
to reach the other shore with each step of the crossing 1111 1100 3perc pno 11111 5’
Commissioned by Esprit Orchestra as part of Ontario Resonance, an Ontario 150 project.
Premiered 23 November 2017, Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, Toronto, ON.
Deep calleth unto deep 111(Bcl)1 1011 2perc pno 11111 10’
Written for McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Premiered 7 April 2016, Pollack Hall, Montreal, QC.
chamber music
string quartet
2022
2019
2018
2017
flora string quartet 18’
Commissioned by Quatuor Bozzini.
Premiered 28 October 2022, Conservatoire de Montreal, QC.
Additional Performance: Quatuor Bozzini, 1 November 2022, Tøyen kirke, Oslo, Norway.
mirror of four unknowns string quartet 17’
Written for the Echéa Quartet.
Premiered 27 July 2019, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, AB.
Additional performance: Continuum Contemporary Music Ensemble, 9 June 2023, Toronto, ON.
mixed ensemble
2024
2022
2020
on the formation of waves clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano 16’
Commissioned by Array Music with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered 8 February 2019, Array Space, Toronto, ON.
upon unknown arts baritone, violin, cello, percussion, piano 6’30”
Written for Soundstreams as part of the Emerging Composers Workshop.
Premiered 6 June 2018, Crows Theatre, Toronto, ON.
Awarded First Place, SOCAN Foundation Award for Young Composers, Chamber Ensemble Category
garden of forking paths clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano 10’
Written for Array Music as part of Array Young Composers Workshop.
Premiered 27 May 2017, Array Space, Toronto, ON.
trio
garden, ever-new two shōs and accordion 8’
Commissioned by shshcc ensemble (Wesley Shen, shō, Michael Murphy, shō, Matti Pulkki, Accordion) and Freesound Collective with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered at Open Ears Festival, 1 June 2024, Kitchener-Waterloo, ON.
Additional Performance: Thursdays at Noon Series at University of Toronto, 26 September 2024, Walter Hall, Toronto, ON.
This dewdrop world soprano saxophone, percussion, microtonal organ 15’
Commissioned by Duo AIRS (Louis-Phillipe Bonin and David Therrien-Brongo) and Adrian Foster with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered 22 April 2022, Cathédrale Christ Church, Montreal, QC, in co-production with Le Vivier and the Canadian International Organ Competition.
remembrancer improvising trio (high, medium, and low instrument w/ electronics) 7’
Commissioned by The Music Gallery and Ensemble Bakarlari.
Premiered 1 March 2020, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Additional performance: Alkali Collective, 14 May 2022, Halifax, NS.
duo
2023
To Meet, Trembling violin and cello 6’
Commissioned by Orbit Ensemble (Aliayta Foon-Dancoes and Isidora Nojkovic) with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Premiered at Open Waters Festival, 9 January 2024, Joseph Strug Concert Hall at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
an ocean apart guitar duo 7’
Nathan Bredeson and Michael Ibsen, Made in Canada Duo.
solo
2025
fibril & thread solo guitar 10’
Commissioned by Rob McDonald.
Premiered at University of Toronto New Music Festival, 28 January 2025, Walter Hall, Toronto, ON.
Additional Performances:
1 February 2025, Mile End Co-Op, Montreal, QC
July 2025, GuitarFest West, Calgary, AB
2023
only ghosts snare drum and electronics 7’
Commissioned by Ryan Scott with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Premiered 17 September 2023, 918 Bathurst Arts and Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON.
Recorded on 21st-Century Canadian Snare Drum (Collection QB)
parting ways violin solo and electronics 15’
Commissioned by Aysel Taghi-Zada and Freesound Collective with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered 5 May 2023, Society Clubhouse, Toronto, ON
Additional Performance: Canadian Opera Company Free Concert Series, 3 February 2026, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, ON.
the walker of the snow (the phantom hunter) guitar solo 6’
Commissioned by Emma Rush with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Premiered 13 July 2023, The Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Recorded on A Dream of Colour (Emma Rush, self release)
2022
spalting harpsichord and electronics 12’
Commissioned by Wesley Shen with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Premiered 29 June 2023, St. George's Grange Park, Toronto, ON.
Additional Performance: 18 November 2026, St. George's Grange Park, Toronto, ON.
2019
dark to the mind, radiant to the heart solo flute and electronics 8’
Commissioned by Caution Tape Sound Collective.
Premiered by Tristan Durie, 25 November 2019, Array Space, Toronto, ON.
for Emily solo guitar/solo guitar and electronics 5’
Premiered by Rob MacDonald, 8 April 2019, Canadian Music Centre, Toronto, ON.
Additional performances:
Thomas Béguin, 5 May 2019, Montréal QC;
Emily Shaw, 25 May 2019, Ottawa, ON, August 2019, Ottawa ON, November 2019, Hamilton, ON;
Nathan Bredeson, September 2019, Southern Ontario tour; Kyle Hawkes, December 2019, Vancouver
Recorded on In The Night (Emily Shaw, self release)
afterlife piano left hand 7’
Commissioned by Adam Scime.
Premiered 5 June 2019, Canadian Music Centre, Toronto, ON.
site specific
2022
so here I am violin, viola, cello, accordion, percussion, community choir, electronics, and movers 17’
Commissioned by Jumblies Theatre and Continuum Contemporary Ensemble with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered 26-27 February 2022, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, ON.