So late their happy seat,

  • 13:00
  • 2024
  • Cello, Clarinet, Piano, Viola, Violin
Published by Monica Houghton Music Company - Request performance materials.
Program Note The title of this work comes from John Milton’s epic poem ‘Paradise Lost.’ “They looking back, all the eastern side beheld,                 Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,” The music is through-composed, with the opening material of each new section emerging from

Fantasy (Variations) on a ‘Prelude Before Christmas’

  • 3:30
  • 2021
  • Piano
Published by Monica Houghton Music Company - Request performance materials.
Riffing on the opening bars of two of my favorite Christmas carols, In the Bleak Midwinter and Good King Wenceslas, this piece wanders to far away places. Hear pianist James Winn perform this work on my streaming album Consolations, a compendium of solo piano works

Algol

  • indeterminate
  • 2022
  • Piano
Published by Monica Houghton Music Company - Request performance materials.
This is a meditative work of indeterminate length, constructed in imitation of the periodic ‘winking’ of the eponymous star which is found in the constellation Perseus. Hear a performance by pianist James Winn on my streaming album Consolations.

Let’s Hope

  • 9:00
  • 2023
  • Cello, Clarinet, Piano
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This three movement work was commissioned by the Sierra Watercolor Society to accompany their “Community Perspectives” Exhibition and was premiered during their Artists’ Reception at Makers Paradise inside the Reno Public Market, on July 22, 2023, by Joshua Anderson (clarinet) Peter Lenz,(‘cello) and James Winn

Swerve

  • 3:00
  • 2022
  • Clarinet, Piano
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I wrote this short piece as a gift for Joshua Anderson after hearing him perform the Copland Concerto with the Reno Philharmonic. He premiered the work with James Winn, piano, in a concert at the Reno Little Theater on October 23, 2023.

Consolations

  • 16:00
  • 2022
  • Piano
Published by Monica Houghton Music Company - Request performance materials.
This is a compilation of six short pieces for solo piano composed during the period beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic lock-down in the spring of 2020 and continuing into the summer of 2022. The titles of the pieces are: Away from Nowhere Fantasy (Variations) on