WORK LIST AND SHOP

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FULL ORCHESTRA

• A LIFE IN THE DAY (2025) (2,2,2,2; 2,2; timp, perc, strings) DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• CATCHING FIREFLIES (1997) (3,3,3,3; 4,3,3,1; timp, perc, harp, strings) DURATION: 8:30 Buy from Imagine Music  ​Stream It Here!
• A WELL-TRAVELED ROAD (1992/rev.2022)  (3,3,3,3; 4,3,3,1; timp, perc, harp, strings)'DURATION: 11:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct  Stream It Here!​
• EBB AND FLOW (1990/rev2022) (3,3,3,3; 4,3,3,1; timp, perc, harp, celesta, strings) DURATION: 14:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

• METAMORPHOSIS (1986/rev2022) (1(picc),1(EH),1(Ebcl), bs cl, bsn, 1: 1,1,1; timp, perc, str)  DURATION: 15:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct

STRING ORCHESTRA

• RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK (2025) DURATION: 5:15 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• TEARS FOR A DYING PLANET (2024) DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct​
• WEDDING PROCESSIONAL (2023) Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• PRELUDE AND DANCE (2021) DURATION: 5:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• MODUS OPERANDI (2019) DURATION: 6:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus. 
• FLUX (1999) DURATION: 9:00 Buy from Imagine Music  Stream It Here!

SYMPHONIC BAND

• CATCHING FIREFLIES (2020) DURATION: 8:00  Buy from Imagine Music

JAZZ ENSEMBLE (BIG BAND)

• COOL FLAME (2025) DURATION: 6:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• ODYSSEY (2024) DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• EARTH TONES (in progress)
• DUPLICITY (2010)  DURATION: 6:00 Buy from Imagine Music  
• PEACHES EN REGALIA (2007) (Frank Zappa) arr. by D. Burwasser

WOODWIND CHAMBER MUSIC

• TRIOLOGUE for reed trio (ob, cl, bsn) (2025) DURATION: 8:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• RHAPSODY for clarinet and piano (2025) DURATION: 9:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• FLUTELOOPS for flute quartet (2025) DURATION; 6:30 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• CAPRICE for woodwind quintet (2024) DURATION: 9:30 Buy from Universal Edition Stream It Here!
• FALSE AWAKENING for reed quintet (2021) DURATION 12:00  Buy from Sheet Music Plus​ Stream It Here!
• TWO FUGUES for woodwind quartet (2020) DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Imagine Music 
• TWO FUGUES for saxophone quartet (2020) DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Imagine Music
• TWO FUGUES for clarinet quartet (2020) DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Imagine Music 
• SUITE FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET (2019) DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Imagine Music Stream It Here!
• WHIRLWIND (2016) for woodwind quintet DURATION: 8:00 Buy from Imagine Music  Stream It Here!​​​
• FOUR MOVEMENTS  for two flutes (1984/2013) DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Imagine Music  

BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC

• SIX SHORT PIECES FOR TWO TRUMPETS (2024) DURATION: 8:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• THE WAITING GAME (2023) for brass quintet DURATION: 11:00 Buy from Universal Edition Stream It Here!
• TWO FUGUES (2020) for brass quartet DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Imagine Music
• GROOVES AND RIFFS (2003) trio for tuba, fr hn and drums, DURATION: 6:00 Buy from Nichols Music Co. Stream It Here! ​
• MOOD SWING (1997) brass quintet with optional drum set, DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Nichols Music Co. 
• MOOD SWING (1995/ rev.2023)) for nine players, DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• PASSAGES (1994) for french horn quartet, DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Nichols Music Co. 

STRINGS CHAMBER MUSIC

• SEXTET FOR STRINGS COMING SOON!
• DARK CORNERS (2025) for string quartet DURATION: 11:30 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• FANTASY FOR CELLO AND PIANO (2024) DURATION: 8:30 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• "THE DOG HAD..." VARIATIONS (2023) for string quartet DURATION: 6:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• WEDDING PROCESSIONAL (2023) for string quartet Buy from Imagine Music
• BITS AND PIECES (1985/2022) for viola and cello DURATION: 14:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• EPISODES (1983/2020) for string nonet (4 2 2 1) DURATION: 12:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• PUCK'S GAME (2019) for string quartet, DURATION: 5:30 Buy from Imagine Music  Stream It Here!
• TWO FUGUES (2020) for string quartet DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Imagine Music 

PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE (2 or more players)

• TIME MARCHES ON for seven players (2025) DURATION: 5:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• REPARTEE for percussion trio (2025) DURATION: 6:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS for percussion quintet (2025) DURATION: 5:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• CIRCLES for percussion quartet (2024) DURATION: 6:30 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• SONATA FOR MARIMBA AND PIANO (2024) DURATION: 11:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• A LIKELY TWOSOME duets for snare and tenor drum (2024) DURATION: 6:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• PULSATIONS (2023) for mallet quartet DURATION: 8:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• THREE VISIONS (2023) for percussion quintet DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• TWO FUGUES (2023) for marimba quartet DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• ​REPERCUSSIONS (2022) for percussion quartet, DURATION: 11:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• GROOVE MOVES (2020) for percussion octet, DURATION: 8:00 Buy from Imagine Music Stream It Here!
• TWO PIECES FOR PERCUSSION QUARTET (1987) DURATION: 8:00 (Revision underway)

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SOLO PERCUSSION

• FOUR PIECES FOR DRUM SET (2025) DURATION: 7:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• FOUR FOR FOUR for solo timpani (2025) DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• SIX PROGRESSIVE ROCK SOLOS for drum set (2024) DURATION: 9:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• TWELVE PITHY PIECES FOR MALLET PERCUSSION (2024) DURATION: 13:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• ESCAPADES (2023) for solo timpani DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• 15 INTERLUDES (2023) for keyboard percussion DURATION: 12:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• JOIE DE VIVRE (2023) for solo marimba DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• SNAPSHOTS II (2022) for solo snare drum DURATION: 12:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• SNAPSHOTS (2018) for solo snare drum Buy from Imagine Music ​Stream It Here!​
• ROTATIONS (1986/2012) for solo marimba DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Imagine Music Stream It Here!

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SOLO PIANO

• PREMONITION II (2025) DURATION: 5:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• BLACK MOON (2025) DURATION: 4:30 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• TOCCATA NON GRATA (2025) DURATION: 5:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• A CRUEL WORLD (2025) DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• 8 for 88 (2024) A collection of eight piano works Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• FIVE PRELUDES FOR PIANO (2024) DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• FOUR A MENTOR (2023) DURATION: 6:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• WEDDING PROCESSIONAL (2023) for two pianos  Buy from Imagine Music
• ​RIBBON OF LIGHT (2023) DURATION: 6:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct 
• TWO FUGUES (2022) DURATION: 4:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• JABBERWOCKY (2021) DURATION: 3:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• EIGHT EASY PIECES FOR PIANO (2014)  DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Imagine Music 
• SONATA FOR PIANO (1987/2018)  DURATION: 15:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• FOUR EPITHETS (1988/2013)  DURATION: 8:00 Buy from Imagine Music 
• THREE SHADES OF LENNY (1986) DURATION 3:30 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• ADVERSARIES (1985/2022)  DURATION: 5:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!

MIXED CHAMBER MUSIC

• TÊTE-À-TÊTE (2024) for bassoon and marimba DURATION: 4:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• TÊTE-À-TÊTE (2024) for bass clarinet and marimba DURATION: 4:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• TÊTE-À-TÊTE (2024) for baritone saxophone and marimba DURATION 4:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• TRIUMVIRATE (2024) trio for bassoon, piano, and drum set DURATION: 9:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• KALEIDOSCOPE (2021) for oboe and cello. DURATION: 9:00  Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!
• EVOCATION (1985/2020) for Bb clar, bsn, F hrn, C tpt,  perc. DURATION: 5:30 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• DUO (1985) for horn and cello  DURATION: 8:00 Buy from Nichols Music Co. 
• QUARTET (1984/2020) for flute, Bb clar, bsn, gtr, DURATION: 12:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus Stream It Here!

VOCAL SOLO AND CHORAL 

• MORS ET VITA (motet for SAB) (1984/2023) DURATION: 1:30
• THREE SONGS ON POEMS BY LAURA SHOVAN (2023) for baritone and piano DURATION: 7:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS (E. Dickinson) (2011/ rev2020)(SATB/piano) DURATION: 3:00 Buy from Imagine Music
• TORRENTS (1998) (Ilsa Gilbert) (m sop, fl, Bb clar, vc, pno) DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct​
• REFLECTIONS (1993) (Ilsa Gilbert) for piano and mezzo sop DURATION: 9:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct​
• THE BUTTERFLY (Pavel Friedman) (1988) for flute, vibraphone, and reciter DURATION: 5:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• THE WORDS THE HAPPY SAY (E. Dickinson) (1988) for unaccompanied choir (ATBB) DURATION: 1:00
• A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM (E.A.Poe) (1987/2020) (sop, fl, Bb clar, vln, vc, pno) DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• AUTUMN (G. Burwasser) ​(1986/2020) (mez sop, fl, bs clar, hrn, perc ,vln, vc) DURATION: 8:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS (solos/exercises/etudes)

• FOUR PIECES FOR DRUM SET (2025) DURATION: 7:30 Buy from Sheet Music Direct

• FOUR FOR FOUR for solo timpani (2025) DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Plus
• SIX PROGRESSIVE ROCK SOLOS for drum set (2024) DURATION: 9:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct Stream It Here!
• TWELVE PITHY PIECES FOR MALLET PERCUSSION (2024) DURATION: 13:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• ESCAPADES (2023) for solo timpani DURATION: 7:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• 15 INTERLUDES (2023) for keyboard percussion DURATION: 12:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• SNAPSHOTS II (2022) for solo snare drum DURATION: 12:00 Buy from Sheet Music Direct
• SNAPSHOTS (2018) for solo snare drum Buy from Imagine Music Stream It Here!
• EIGHT EASY PIECES FOR PIANO (2014)  DURATION: 10:00 Buy from Imagine Music 

THEATER

• ONE NIGHT TOGETHER (2014) (libretto by Ilsa Gilbert) chamber opera in four scenes. DURATION: 01:30:00

           Performance materials are available directly from the composer. Inquire on contact page.

​MISCELLANEOUS SOLO WORKS

• BREAKING AND ENTERING (2020) for electrified bassoon. Stream It Here!​
• VOILÀ! (2004) for five-string electric viola DURATION: 7:30