2014 Abandoned Songs with other Words 2013 Two Step Passion ver. for piano trio Fortuna Sepio Nos it's a nasreddin Zamboturfidir 2012 Drawings vers. for cello and piano Judgment of Midas (opera in two acts) Asumani Symphony in Blue 2011 Still, Flow, Surge The Invasion Two Step Passion Thyestes 2009 Requiem for Mehmet Far Variations Concerto for Orcestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices 2008 Dreamlines Road to Memphis 2007 Partita in E Nihavent Longa Music for a Lost Earth > earlier Lines (clarinet piano version) (1997) First Performance November 2001 Present Music William Helmers, clarinet Stephanie Jacobs, piano Milwaukee, WI Instrumentation clarinet and piano Duration 13'30" Listen Lines Program Notes Lines is commissioned by Chicago clarinetist Debbie Fenn. In Lines I am continuing to be taken with the sounds that are very spiritual, longing for “something” (like my previous works Domes & Arches). It is lightly tonal, obsessing on certain lines/chords, searching, etc. The music is calm, patient, feeling what its thinking, thinking what its feeling.... Lines also continues my journey back “home”. By this I mean exploring my roots in a much more concrete manner in the music (and culture) of Turkey/Ottomans and the Byzantium. With all this I am continuing my affinity to bud the wild and the spiritual, the mixing of the very simple with the complex. To find the equilibrium, unity, continuum among the contrasting ingredients is an ongoing passion. Press Quote