Commissioned by Chamber Music Palisades, Spin is a single-movement chamber work in three sections. From the composer: “My idea in writing Spin was to create twelve minutes of music that stays up the whole time, never touching ground.”

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Terzetto was commissioned by Glendale Noon Concerts as a companion piece to the Dvorak Terzetto. It is scored for the same two violins and viola, and it references Dvorak’s work overtly and in more hidden ways, while retaining contemporary elements.

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From the composer: “Not long ago, at a rest stop in Utah while crossing the Great Basin of the desert West for the first time, I felt myself sinking into the voids between the massive walls of layered rock, millions of years of geologic history—planetary history—staring me in the face.  I later discovered that if I had been at that spot 500 million years earlier, I would have been quite literally on the bottom of a vast tropical sea that covered North America from the Arctic Ocean down to the Gulf of Mexico. Dry Ocean tells the story of this magical place, about scales of time and change that seem beyond human comprehension.”

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A set of short solo piano pieces with playful premises, in the spirit of Kurtág’s Jatekok (“Games”). Contact the composer for more information.

An orchestrational study for seven brass players. Contact the composer for more information.

An orchestrational study for woodwind quintet. Contact the composer for more information.

From the composer: “I wrote these six Cinematic Studies to combine two of my passions--viola and film music--and to fill a gap in the training options available to violists interested in working in the world of visual media. These pieces can stand on their own as technical etudes and unaccompanied concert pieces, and are also the solo parts for orchestrated cinematic cues, each of which will accompany a short film.  Eventually, performance recordings will be available for all six, allowing a violist to perform the works in concert to a click track, synched to the backing track and the accompanying film.”

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This piece was co-written by Jonah Sirota and his father, composer Robert Sirota. Contact the composer for more information.

From the composer: “Socially Distant was written for the Hartt School’s Uncertainty of Fate project. The work begins in isolation and confusion between the voices of the quartet, reflecting the isolation of COVID and the extraordinarily difficult year we’ve just experienced. The quartet ends with the beginnings of an attempt to find one another again, musically voicing the hope that we can use the pain and trauma of the last year to grow stronger, more accepting, and more loving of ourselves and one another.”

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A duo for flute and viola d’amore, commissioned by the husband/wife duo of Christina Jennings and Matthew Dane. From the composer: “Entanglement is named for quantum entanglement, the mysterious ‘spooky action at a distance’ that Einstein spoke of, which perhaps explains the unexplainable: a universal mechanism for mystery, spiritual connection, and love.”

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From the composer: “COVID OBOE VIOLA OVID is a duet in three movements for oboe and viola which I wrote during the pandemic lock-down and which had movements virtually premiered on the Fine Arts Club of Pasadena series and on Living Music Live, Pirate Radio Edition. Each movement reflects on the experience of the pandemic through the lens of a different quote by the ancient Roman poet Ovid: I. ‘Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.’ II. ‘What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.’ III. ‘My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.’”

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A viola/organ duo based on a melody by J.S. Bach. Contact the composer for more information.

A trio for oboe, beginner flute, and viola. Contact the composer for more information.

Grounded is an orchestral passacaglia in one movement. It was commossioned by the Greenwood Music Camp and premiered in August of 2018. It has been subsequently performed by the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory division orchestra. Contact the composer for more information and part rentals.

From the composer: “Flutter Fingers began as an exploration of extended viola techniques, but ended up being about various kinds of distortion, specifically about the dramatic ways that distortion in sound and visual media has changed over the course of my lifetime.” Contact the composer for more information.

A track from Jonah Sirota’s solo debut album Strong Sad, When You Lose You Win features viola solo, multi-tracked viola, and digital production. Contact the composer for more information on live performance of the work.

A track from Jonoh Sirota’s solo debut album Strong Sad, co-written with composer and organist Kurt Knecht (together the two composers make up the duo Mondegreen). Written as an improv chart, the work is never the same twice. Contact the composer for more information on live performance of the work.