list of works

Large Ensemble

On the Mountains of Orphalese…

Commissioner : Lawrence University Wind Ensemble; Duration : 6 minutes; Instrumentation : wind ensemble; Year : 2017

Oh, Great Mystery

Winner of the Kim Allen Kluge Young Composers Competition. Premiered by the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. 2013.

Electronics

When the Moon sings, I drink… 

{ Choreographer : Nadia Khayrallah, Commissioner : Fresh Inc Festival, Duration : 12 minutes, Instrumentation : [English horn, double bass, piano, electronics], Year : 2021, Additional Info: Funded by the Stephen R. Gerber Trust }

No Words

{ Anonymous commission, Duration : 4 minutes, Instrumentation: Electronics, Year: 2021 }

Assyrian Wedding Song { Media Portfolio project, MIDI Orchestra }

Piano

le petit livre de fleurs

{  Duration: 60 minutes, Instrumentation: piano, Year: 2023 }

  • Sonatina for the working bee
  • Trois Gymnopedie
  • Samai Thaqil
  • Rondo a la Turke
  • Valse Lent
  • Balade
  • Mirror Fugue
  • Fugue a Cinque Voix
  • Three Canons
 

Sonata No. 4 in C: The Silly Little Guy  { for Ethan and Grisel, Duration: 12 minutes, Instrumentation: piano, Year: 2024 }

Sonata No. 3 in E-flat: Bedtime Stories for the Inner Child { Commissioner: Derrick Hahn, Duration: 40 minutes, Instrumentation: piano, Year: 2022 }

  1. The most massive character … and its scars
  2. And the moonlight glistened as he sailed through the river of honey
  3. On the battlefield of souls
 

Sonata No. 2 in D: From the Earth { Duration: 30 minutes, Instrumentation: piano, Year: 2020 }

Sonata No. 1 in A: The Arrogance of Time { Commissioner : Ethan Valentin, Duration : 20 minutes, instrumentation: piano, Year : 2016 }

for Edward Said: a Poem  { Choreographer : Nadia Khayrallah, Commissioner : Luke Auchter, Duration : 7 minutes, Instrumentation : [piano, electronics ], Year : 2021 }

bird in migration: a self-orientalist fantasy { Commissioner : Anoush Moazzeni, Duration : Indeterminate, Instrumentation : [piano, electronics], Year : 2021, Additional Info : Deterritorializing The Realm of New Music Call For Proposals Winner }

Voice

Ya leil, let The Moon sing  { Commissioner : Kin of the Moon, Duration : 11 minutes, Instrumentation : [flute, viola, cello, piano, voice, harp], Year : 2022 }

Exile’s Mirror  { In Progress 2023 Opera in Arabic, German, and English, Duration: 180 minutes, Instrumentation: Chamber Orchestra, Oud, Qanun, Nay, Iqa’at, 5 voices }

Two Lullabies for Rita  { Poetry in Arabic by Samira Ghanem, Commissioner : Deux Saisons, Duration : 5 minutes, Instrumentation : [voice, guitar], Year : 2021 }

For Teta: A Poem  { Librettist : Mariam Bazeed, Commissioner : Melina Jaharis, Duration : 60 minutes, Instrumentation : [Voice, Cello, Electronics], Year : 2021 }

Our Love { Lyrics by Nadim Choufi, Duration : 3 minutes, Instrumentation: [voice, piano], Year : 2017 }

Song for a Small Guest  { Commissioner : Art Song Lab, Duration : 6 minutes, Instrumentation : [voice, piano], Year : 2016 }

Chamber Works

Layali Beirut { Commissioner : Versoi Ensemble, Duration: 5 minutes, Instrumentation: String Quartet, Year: 2021, Additional Info: Funded by the US Embassy of Finland }

Tanz der Sonne { Premiered by: Trio Immersio in Vienna Austria, Duration: 5 minutes, Instrumentation: piano trio, Year : 2022 }

for Mahmoud Darwish: a Poem { Commissioner : Isaac Mayhew, Duration : 9 minutes, Instrumentation : [trumpet, electronics] OR [two trumpets, synthesizer], Year : 2021 }

Decolonized Arabesques { Commissioner : Ethan Valentin, Duration : 10 minutes, Instrumentation : [saxophone, viola, double bass, piano], Year : 2017 }

BABA BIDEN SAVES AMERIKA { Commissioner : Fifth House Ensemble, Duration : 10-12 minutes, Instrumentation : [flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, electronics], Year : 2022 }

Al-Wahdat al-Wujud { Commissioner : Leanna Keith, Duration : Indeterminate, Instrumentation : Indeterminate, Year : 2021 }

Parable of the Olive tree { Commissioner : Amber Verser, Duration : 45 minutes, Instrumentation : [oboe, viola, piano], Year : 2020 }

Migrations { Commissioner : Joseph Connor, Duration : Indeterminate, Instrumentation : Alto Saxophone, Year : 2019 }

Celestial Playground { Commissioner : Leila Pertl, Duration : 4 hours, Instrumentation : [harp, hookah], Year : 2019 }