Compositions

🎼  = Score/parts available for purchase
For inquiries, please contact Michi at michimail@gmail.com.

TYRANNY OF COORDINATES (2022) 🎼

For piano quintet
Commissioned by the Boston Chamber Music Society.

GERTIE’S KISS (2022)

For piano, violin, viola, cello, & bass
Commissioned by the Schubert Club.

ARE YOU YOU (2021) 🎼

For string quartet & harpsichord
Commissioned by CityMusic Cleveland.

MEDITATION ON A CENTURY PLANT (2021)

For voice and strings
Commissioned by Adult Swim and release by Adult Swim Singles.

THE STREAM, AN OPERA (2021)

For solo violin
Commissioned by Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Cleveland Opera Theater, and On-Site Opera, with libretto by Sarah LaBrie.

TO UNPATHED WATERS, UNDREAMED SHORES (2021) 🎼

For string quartet
Commissioned by Bay Chamber Series & Jupiter String Quartet, performed by Jupiter String Quartet

ISLAND IN THE SKY (2021) 🎼

For solo clarinet
Commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and performed by Sang Yoon Kim.

ARKANA AQUARIUM, AN OPERA (2020)

Commissioned by Experiments in Opera, with libretto by Annie-Sage Whitehurst.

PLANETARY CANDIDATE (2020)

For solo violin
Off the album, Planetary Candidate, released by New Amsterdam Records.

LISTENING TO THE MISSISSIPPI (2019)

Multimedia, site-specific public installation
Commissioned by the University of Minnesota, with artist Monica Moses Haller.

MURASAKI’S MOON, A CHAMBER OPERA (2019)

For string quartet, percussion, taiko, flute, koto, 2 tenors, mezzo-soprano
Libretto by Deborah Brevoort. Co-commissioned by MetLive Arts, On Site Opera, and American Lyric Theater.

LULLABY FOR THE TRANSIENT (2018) 🎼  

For string quartet, clarinet
Commissioned and performed by the Aizuri Quartet and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh.

I HAVE A MAP (2015)

For violin, cello, bass, synthesizer
Premiered at The SPCO’s Liquid Music series in Minneapolis.

TINY SKIES (2014)

For mixed electro-acoustic ensemble
Premiered at the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York.

BLOOD SUGAR SUITE  (2014)

For violin, keyboard
Premiered at the World Café Live in Philadelphia.

5 REASONS (2014) 🎼  

For string quartet
Commissioned by the Enso Quartet, premiered at Rice University.

BLUE BOURRÉE (2014) 🎼  

For string quartet and double bass
Commissioned by Sybarite 5.

ODE TO SHERBAN LUPU (2014)

For violin (or viola), keyboard
Premiered at Apples and Olives Festival in Zurich, Switzerland.

EVERY STAR IS VENUS: A VIOLIN CONCERTO (2013)

9 DEATH HAIKU  (2009) 🎼  

For string quintet, voice, percussion
Commissioned by Concert Artists Guild, premiered by Kono Michi at Thalia Theater at Symphony Space.

Film Scores

I’M IN HERE (2016)

Score for short film, written and directed by Willy Berliner. (Watch the film.)

THE MEND (2015)

Score for feature-length film, written and directed by John Magary, produced by Myna Joseph. Available for streaming on Netflix.

Arrangements

LA FOLLIA VARIATIONS (FRANCESCO GEMINIANI) 🎼  

For string orchestra
Commissioned by the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (intermediate version also available).

LA FOLLIA VARIATIONS 🎼

For violin/piano and violin/guitar
Commissioned by Anne Akiko Meyers.

CHACONNE, FROM PARTITA NO. 2 IN D MINOR (J.S. BACH)

For string orchestra
Commissioned by the East Coast Chamber Orchestra.

CIACONNA, REIMAGINED (MAURIZIO CAZZATI) 🎼  

For string orchestra, harpsichord
Commissioned by the East Coast Chamber Orchestra.

TZIGANE (MAURICE RAVEL)

For string orchestra, violin solo, cimbalom or harp
Commissioned by The SPCO and Patricia Kopatchniskaja.

FIVE MELODIES, OP. 35 (SERGEI PROKOFIEV) 🎼  

For string orchestra
Commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME (CHARLES IVES) 🎼  

For string orchestra
Commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME (ANTONIN DVORAK) 🎼  

For string orchestra
Commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

WORKS BY DUFAY, LILI BOULANGER, HILDEGARD VON BINGEN, VICTORI, & LOTTI

Commissioned by Camerata Bern with Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Anna Prohaska.

SELECTED GYMNOPÉDIES + GNOSSIENNES (ERIK SATIE) 🎼  

For string orchestra

ROMANIAN FOLK DANCES (BÉLA BARTÓK)

For string orchestra

LIEBESLEID: LOVE'S SORROW (FRITZ KREISLER) 🎼  

For string orchestra or piano quartet

TRISTIS EST ANIMA MEA (CARLO GESUALDO DA VENOSA) 🎼  

For string orchestra

FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE (NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV) 🎼  

For violin/cello duo

CAPRICE #13 (NICCOLÓ PAGANINI) 🎼  

For four violins

DRAGANA I SLAVEYA: DRAGANA AND THE NIGHTINGALE 🎼  

For eight stringed instruments

WYE OAK: SONG ARRANGEMENTS

For vocals, synth, strings, bass
Commissioned by Liquid Music.

EL VY: RETURN TO THE MOON

For band, string quartet
Arranged for appearance on Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

EMILY WELLS: THIS WORLD IS TOO ___ FOR YOU

String arrangements
Commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble.