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Transcriptions:

  • Solo Guitar
    (Extended 7-String or Multi-String Guitar)

    Pavane for a Dead Princess - Ravel
    Mother Goose Suite - Ravel
    Symphony No.2 (third movement) - Rachmaninoff
    Adagio for Strings - Barber
    Adagio - Albinoni
    Pictures at an Exhibition - Moussorgsky
    Chaconne - Bach
    Caprices 1,6 - Paganini
    Air on a "G" String (from Suite no.3) - Bach
    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy
    Prelude in C#m - Rachmaninoff
    Selections from Westside Story - Bernstein      (Maria, Somewhere, America)
     
  • Ensemble:
    Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" - Debussy
    Reverie - Debussy
    Clair de Lune - Debussy
    The Sunken Cathedral - Debussy
    Nocturne - Dvorak
    Lacrimosa - Mozart
    Chorale - Grasso
    Canzonetta ( guitar and violin ) - Tchaikovsky
    Impresiones Imtimas - Mompou
    Prelude No. 5 - Rachmaninoff
    Hungarian Dance No.5 - Brahms
    Pavane - Faure
     
  • 6-String guitar works recreated for the
    Extended 7-String Guitar:

    Cantabile - Ross Thompson
    Raguette - Dusan Bogdanovic
    Invocation et Danse - Joaquin Rodrigo
    Ruecuredos de la Alambra - Tarrega
    El Colibri - Julio Sagreras
     

Compositions:

  • Solo Guitar:
    Four Brief Sketches ( 1994 )
    Intimate Settings ( 1994 )
    Personal Impressions ( 1995 )
    Meditation #1 ( Serenity )
    Meditation #2 ( Shanti )
    Morning Prayer (1996)
    Offering ( 1996 )
    Peace and Joy ( 1997 )
    Two Compositions for Prepared Guitar ( 1997 )
    Passacaglia ( 2000 )
    Babak's Raga (2006)
    Three Contemplations for 7-string guitar (2007)
    Contemplation on the Corpse for 7-string guitar (2008)
     
  • Ensemble:
    Indian Raga Take One, for guitar and cello ( 1992 )
    Trio, for guitar, violin, and cello ( 1992 )
    Meditation #3, for guitar quartet ( for universal tranquility )
    Guitar Concerto for extended 7-string and orchestra (2005)
    Polymetric Suite, for guitar trio ( 2006 )
     
  • Guitarp Music:
    Echoes of a Lake ( 1997 )
    A Glitter of Time ( 2000 )
     
  • Kotar Music:
    The Realization of Tomorrow ( 1997 )
    Journey to Infinity ( 2000 )
     
  • Jazz Tunes:
    Twin Towers
    Jazz and Jhaptal
    Moksha
    Yiddish-ish
     
  • Ragas:
    Lotus Flower
    Miyan's Raga
    Garland of Melodies
    Papamagama
     


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