Yet Unheard for chorus, orchestra, and Helga Davis, in collaboration with Sharan Strange.Commissioned and premiered by The Dream Unfinished, an activist orchestra. Cooper Union, The Great Hall, New York, NY, 2016
“His Love Endures Forever,” After Coltrane, a suite for jazz orchestra, commissioned and premiered by New York Jazzharmonic. Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, New York, NY, 2016
Sanctum for orchestra and recorded sound, commissioned and premiered by American Composers Orchestra, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 2015
Shedding Skin for symphonic orchestra, a reading by American Composers Orchestra, JazzComposers Orchestra Institute, Miller Theatre, New York, NY, 2013
ORCHESTRAL
A Presence for solo piano and recorded sound, Fromm Players at Harvard University, Creative Music Convergences, curated by Vijay Iyer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2016
Rising for string quartet, commissioned and premiered by Spektral String Quartet for Mobile Miniatures Project, Chicago, IL, 2014
A Time for Everything for chorus, premiered by Ekmeles, Issue Project Room, New York, NY, 2013
Saved for three gospel choirs, invisible :: meet me in okemah :: saved, commissioned by artist Kara Lynch, Harlem River Park, New York, NY, 2013
Come Away, My Beloved for chorus, premiered by Ekmeles, Callaloo literary conference, Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ, 2012
Intercession for chorus, premiered by Ekmeles, Roulette Intermedium, New York, NY, 2012
Songs of Laughing, Smiling, and Crying for solo improvised piano and recorded sound, premiered at The Stone, New York, NY, 2012; performed at The Blue Note Jazz Club, New York, NY, 2013
Sweet Chariot for two pianos and percussion, premiered by Yarn/Wire, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY, 2010
CHAMBER
Prophetika interdisciplinary collaboration, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY, 2015
Carnival for Unity: Piano Pieces for solo piano (2003), performed at Lincoln Center, Rose Studio Hall, New York, NY, 2007; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2007; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2013
“Come Out the Wilderness”: The Lyric Seduction of James Baldwin, James Baldwin’s Global Imagination Conference Concert, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY, 2011
INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Solo piano concert St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, New York, NY, 2010
Giants of Jazz 13 The Baird, South Orange, NJ, 2010
Courtney Bryan New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2009, 2012; Cape May Jazz Festival, Cape May, NJ, 2008
White Gleam of Our Bright Star for orchestra commissioned and premiered by Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Colorado Springs, CO, 2016
Soli Deo Gloria for guitar duo, commissioned by Duo Noire, St. Louis, MO, 2017
Musicians of Bremen commissioned by Miller Theatre, New York, NY, 2017. Do Your Thing, for orchestra and jazz sextet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 2017
New Work commissioned by Imani Winds, New York, NY, 2017
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS
The Price of Flowers film score, director Ashley Charbonnet, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2010; New Orleans Film Festival, 2011
Joy in the Morning film score, director Gina Atwater, Savannah Film Festival, 2009
Presence composer, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, NY, 2011
Blood Dazzlercomposer and performer, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Angela’s Pulse, New York, NY, 2010
New Orleans Suite composer and performer, Cultural Arts Center, ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans, La, 2005