Full Orchestra

Safe Till Tomorrow (2021)
The composer’s orchestration of his choral work of the same name.

Stone Ridge Overture (2017)
Premiered by the Marist College Orchestra under the composer’s direction in April 2017. The piece was written for the composer’s wedding, and was also performed by an ad hoc professional orchestra during his wedding ceremony at Trinity Lutheran Church in Kingston, NY on July 1, 2017. 

Elegy (2006)
Dedicated to the composer’s late grandparents, Elegy was premiered by the Old Bridge Chamber Orchestra at the Harris Pavilion in Manassas, VA in 2006.  

Theme and Variations for Trombone and Orchestra (2004)
Premiered by Harry Watters (trombone) and the United States Army Orchestra in 2004.

String Orchestra

The Source Revisited (2019)
Recorded by members of the Oakwood Friends School Orchestra in 2019.
Selected as a finalist in the pops/light music division of the 2021 American Prize Composition Contest and performed at the 2022 International Composers Festival. 

Dorian Sketches (2014)
Premiered by the Marist College Orchestra under the composer’s direction at the historic Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, NY in April 2014

A New Beginning (2007)
Premiered at Marist College by the Marist College Orchestra under the direction of Douglas Richard in 2007.

Wind Band

Regeneration (2021)
A bandstration of the composer’s 2016 solo piano piece of the same name.
Premiered at a joint concert of the Lebanon County Community Band and the South Hanover Band on August 17, 2022, Dr. Keith Richardson conducting. 

Symphony for Band: Beyond the Elusive Dream (2018)
Read and recorded by the George Mason Wind Symphony in November 2019.
Selected as a semifinalist in the wind band division of the 2021 American Prize Composition Contest and premiered by the Luftwaffenmusikkorps Erfurt at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in November 2023.

Vernal Equinox (2011)
Premiered by the Marist College Wind Symphony in 2011 and performed again by the Marist College Symphonic Community Band at the Association of Concert Bands National Convention 2012 in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Chorus

Safe Till Tomorrow (2020)
A setting of William Carlos Williams’ poem World Piece for SATB choir.
Currently entered in the 2021 Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest.

Electronic

Echo Chambers (2022)

Title track from Echo Chambers, available on Spotify and other streaming service.

Solo and Chamber

Pressing On (2021)
for Trombone and Piano

Solitary (2021)
for Trombone and Actors
Video included in the digital gallery of the Boston University project Race, Justice, Prison: Illuminating Stories through the Arts 

Trombone Quartet: Eternal Return (2017)
Available from Cimarron Music Press

Regeneration (2016)
for piano
Dedicated to the composer’s wife Rosemary Sharpe Messerschmidt, and premiered by the composer at a Marist College recital in 2017.

Nocturne (2015)
for Clarinet and Piano
Premiered by HyunJoon “Jason” Song (clarinet) and Hanchong “Jack” Jin (piano) on May 2016 at Lane Theater, Poughkeepsie, NY
Available from Cimarron Music Press

Concertpiece: An Ancient Saga (2009; 2013)
for Flute and Piano
Premiered by Bonnie Ham (flute) and Ruthanne Schempf (piano) at Dutchess Community College Faculty Recital
Available from Cimarron Music Press

A Movement for Short Attention Span (2011)
for Marimba and Piano
An arrangement for marimba and piano of the third movement of the composer’s own Piano Sonata: Three Movements for Short Attention Span
Premiered by Robert McCarthy (marimba) and Camille Sherman (piano) at Boston Conservatory in 2013.

If (2011)
for Euphonium and Piano
Premiered by Charlie Brighton (euphonium) of the BBC Winds and Malcolm Stowell (piano) at St. Mary’s Parish in Slough, England
Has also been performed by Jason Ham of the United States Military Academy Band
Available from Cimarron Music Press and on Navona Records compilation album Brass Tacks 2.

Brass Quintet No. 1 (2010)
Recorded by the members of the United States Military Academy Band Brass Quintet
Premiered by the Virginia Commonwealth University Brass Quintet in Cartagena, Colombia in 2013
Available from Cimarron Music Press

Fantasia (2009)
for Horn and Piano
Premiered in Richmond in 2010 by Dr. Patrick Smith (horn) and Dr. Dmitri Shteinberg (piano), both faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Available from Cimarron Music Press – it’s my top selling piece with that publisher - and on Navona Records compilation album Brass Tacks 2.

Regret (2005)
for String Trio
Composed using interval controls.
Recorded by members of the United States Army Orchestra: Daniel Pearson (violin), Tim Zenobia (viola), and John Gockel (cello)
Premiered by students at The Catholic University of America in 2005.