On March 4, 1939, my mother arrived by ship from Europe at Pier 5 in San Francisco. I composed a work to celebrate the anniversary of her arrival, given its first performance on March 4, 2026 at the Berkeley Piano Club with Ellen St. Thomas, soprano, Wendy Clymer, viola, Nancy Bachmann, piano and myself on cello.

Soaring
a sound sculpture (part of Lightfast: Intertwine, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, February-June 2024)

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In 2023, I received an Music Grant Program award to write a work for sfSound, that was performed with Hope Mohr Dance (Belinda He and Teagan Schwab-Alavi, dancers) at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. Here is the 4th movement of “migrations”

Originally part of Lightfast – currents & cadences (2022) – my composition
“17 generations” – performed here in St. Pölten, Austria, April 2024

Three collages created in the studio during the pandemic:

Alto Layers (2020) was composed in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, using recordings of Linda Green’s viola playing
Sebald Layers (2020) is inspired by the writings of WG Sebald.
CD-DM-MS-SB (2021) was recorded in the studio of Danae Mattes as part of an ongoing project

Earlier compositions:

More than Nine Minutes (2016) performed by Hadley McCarroll and Monica Scott at Z Space, San Francisco
Still Smokin’ (2014) performed by Brendan Lai-Tong, Matt Ingalls and Monica Scott at SFCM