Insect Dance for piano is a somewhat whimsical one-of-a-kind piece lasting 5 minutes. An excellent recording by Anna Kislitsyna is available on the Navona Records CD “Sonix and other Tonix”.

Shinkansen was written for the Japanese Nishikawa Ensemble’s 2002 North American tour. I decided to focus on an aspect of Japanese culture that interested me. The Shinkansen is the high-speed train

Trio No. 5 is for the classic string trio - violin, viola and cello. It was started as the Covid-19 lockdown was coming to an end and finished in 2022 when it was over. The first movement, Strength in the