Almost Homeless – Ottawa
2024 / Electro-Chamber DURATION45 minutes INSTRUMENTATIONviolin, marimba, piano, fixed electronics COMMISSIONED BYOttawa New Music Creators Programme Notes This composition explores […]
Social Justice
Helianthus
2022 / Choral DURATION3 minutes, 30 seconds INSTRUMENTATIONa cappella Treble Choir TEXTChristine Pennylegion Programme Notes The barbaric invasion of Ukraine
Fake News
2018 / Chamber Music DURATION6 minutes, 45 seconds INSTRUMENTATIONcello, piano Programme Notes When I was a kid, I couldn’t help
Oblivion
2018 / Chamber Music DURATION8 minutes, 20 seconds INSTRUMENTATIONstring quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) Programme Notes Ah, how “delightful” it
The Thailand HRDs
This 35-movement string quartet was inspired by a photo essay by Luke Duggleby called “For Those Who Died Trying”. Each movement is an elegy to an environmental activist.
Return to East Aleppo
2017 / Electronic DURATION5 minutes, 12 seconds Programme Notes On January 18, 2017, I read a powerful article on BBC
A Secret Streamlet
2016 / Chamber Music DURATION7 minutes, 15 seconds INSTRUMENTATIONviolin, piano Programme Notes On April 8, 1975, Czech writer and activist
Morality from a Bush
2012 / Electronic DURATION3 minutes, 39 seconds Programme Notes What’s brighter – a Shrub or a Dub? That’s a very
Thirty Minutes of a 3 Million Minute Journey
2016 / Chamber Music DURATION30 minutes INSTRUMENTATIONclarinet, piano COMMISSIONED BYMichael Westwood (clarinetist) Programme Notes In 2016, like many of my
Spend Your Kids’ Inheritance
2014-19 / Musical Theatre DURATION50 minutes INSTRUMENTATION5f & 4m actors/vocalists, piano MUSICFrank Horvat BOOK & LYRICSCatherine Frid Programme Notes Spend
Human Cyborg
2014 / Vocal DURATION4 minutes, 41 seconds INSTRUMENTATIONvoices, piano, guitar, bass, percussion TEXTFrank Horvat Programme Notes Human Cyborg is a quasi-homage
Honour and Reality
2014 / Choral DURATION6 minutes, 15 seconds INSTRUMENTATIONmen’s chorus (TTBB), a cappella TEXTFrank Horvat Programme Notes In commemoration of the
Sunflower
2014 / Chamber Music DURATION6 minutes INSTRUMENTATIONmarimba, piano (optional fixed electronics at end of piece) Programme Notes This composition is
diskriminatsiya
2014 / Electro-Chamber DURATION10 minutes, 55 seconds INSTRUMENTATION2 flutes, fixed electronics COMMISSIONED BYChristopher Lee and Samantha Chang (flutists) Programme Notes
08/14/13 – Cairo
2013 / Solo & Electro-Chamber DURATION12 minutes, 45 seconds INSTRUMENTATIONbass clarinet, fixed electronics COMMISSIONED BYKathryn Ladano (bass clarinetist) Programme Notes