For double choir SSAATTBB, premiered by Vince Peterson and the Choral Chameleon Institute Singers.

Music by Alex Goodhart

Kyrie, movement in modified canon

If a people are to be conquered, they must be Divided.

DIVIDED: I. Overture

If love is unity, then the lonely are a virtue. 




Premiered in January 2024 by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, live recording not currently released.

DIVIDED: II. Duetto Lontano

The formula hasn’t changed a bit, yet people keep on falling for it.

DIVIDED: III. Circoscherzo

No Where River

Erosions, for vocal cellist, III. where you told me

Erosions, for vocal cellist, II. the pink chair

Performed live at the Oregon Bach Festival Composer's Symposium, 2018

Frayed Serenade

A vvvv sentimental piece written in the days following the passing of my dearly loved Winston. 

For some reason, people sometimes need to compare animal relationships and human ones. But it’s never been something I could separate— love is love. 

Written in a a weekend 10 years ago, I’m coming back to this piece more often as the specter of its pain is here again. 

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DGS: I - Winged White and Spotted

A short set of variations for String Quartet on a theme made by a mutation of some well known Ravel. This piece was composed in <48 hours and rehearsed and performed in less than a week by the Thalea Quartet of San Francisco, as part of the quartet's residency with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Four Short Scenes after Ravel, for string quartet

Vexations is a journey through fog, from dark to light. Romantically desolate landscapes appear within each other like Russian dolls in this short nightmarish fantasy.

Only a few melodic ideas permeate the music,
undulating and evolving through its ternary structure (slow/fast/slow). 

Orchestration also plays an important role in the storytelling: clarinets, horns, melodic percussion, piano, harp, solo violin, and other voices play recurring rhetorical roles.

The overall tone of Vexations is adventurous,
comprising moments of fear, catharsis, serenity and stoicism and--
as the title suggests-- an unremitting burden from
some incomplete thought.

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Vexations (Overture for Orchestra)

Three Preludes for solo piano, composed April-May 2017

III. Prelude in Ab Major

II. Prelude in C Major

I. Prelude in G Minor

Completed in late 2017, the Magnet Sky Overture is a tone poem, in roughly four short parts (Andante misterioso – Allegro scherzando – Lento maestoso – Grandioso finale), depicting the modern web of social motion in our newly connected world.

Magnet Sky Overture

Aviary, for flute and piano


performed by the Glaux ensemble members Charles Abromovic (piano) and Marshall Taylor (sax), Philadelphia PA 2012.

Soliloquy, for Piano and Saxophone

Commissioned by Temple University's contemporary music group, conTemplum. Premiered Winter 2011. 

Flute v. Contrabass

Recording featuring 

Sara Jane Kenner: Violin I
Isaac Young: Violin II
Ashley Monique Vines: Viola
Erin Busch: Cello

Mouvement (String Quartet No. 1)

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