Music

Selected works — scores available for purchase upon request
Email: bruce@elmahboob.com

CHAMBER

ex aliis matres (2024) 19′
for string quartet
commissioned by the Isabel Quartet
premiere: Feb 2025, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston, ON

ex tempore (2024 arr. 2026) 9′
for sextet (vib, mar, string quartet)

ex tempore (2024) 9′
for quintet (fl, cl, vib/mar, vn, vc)
commissioned by Arraymusic
premiere: Feb 2024, Toronto
(video)

cane (2023) 7′
for double reed trio (ob, eng hrn, bsn)
commissioned by Artemis Musicians’ Society
premiere: Mar 2024, Notional Space, Vancouver

ex harmonia (2023) 16′
for quintet (cl, vib, pno, vn, vc)
commissioned by Arraymusic
premiere: Apr 2023, Toronto
(video)

in the sea of being (2022) 9′
for sextet (fl, cl, vib/glock, pno, vn, vc)
commissioned by Thin Edge New Music Collective
premiere: Jun 2022, 918 Bathurst, Toronto
(video)

we have lived before (2021) 18′
for piano trio
commissioned by Gryphon Trio
premiere: Jul 2021, Koerner Hall, Toronto
(video)

Linea Nigra (2015) 9′
for string octet
double premiere: Oct 2020, two prerecordings by members of San Juan Symphony, Durango, CO and Idaho Falls Symphony, Idaho Falls, ID, both conducted by Thomas Heuser
(video, Classical Music Chicago performance, 2021)

Sequences (2000, rev. 2024) 5′
for trio or quartet(synth/percussion, two marimbas)
premiere: University of Delaware Percussion Ensemble,
Gene Koshinski, dir., Apr 2024, Newark, DE
(video)

Madra (1999, rev. 2009) 12′
for string quartet
premiere: Jun 2004, Madawaska Quartet, New Music North, Thunder Bay (original version recording)
(also see arrangement for two pianos below)

Kalimba Canon (1999, rev. 2020) 3′
for two alto kalimbas
premiere: Jul 2020, Second Note Duo (prerecorded)
Oct 2020, Prism Percussion, San Francisco, CA
(video)

limina (1996) 5′
for two pianos and percussion
premiere: Nov 2020, Arraymusic, Toronto

Continuo (1994, rev. 2020) 3′
for two pianos, violin and cello
(also see version for piano duo only below)

PIANO DUO

Madra (1999 arr. 2024) 16′
premiere: Nov 2024, junctQín keyboard collective, Arraymusic, Toronto

Companion (2019) 12′
premiere: Nov 2020, Arraymusic, Toronto

aix (2004) 2′
premiere: Nov 2020, Arraymusic, Toronto

Two Dances (1996, rev. 2023) 12′
premiere: Nov 2024, junctQín keyboard collective, Arraymusic, Toronto

Continuo (1994, rev. 2020) 3′
premiere: Nov 2024, junctQín keyboard collective, Arraymusic, Toronto

PIANO SOLO

For Ash (2019-21) 5′

Children’s Suite (2007-2014) 30′
premiere: Nov 2020, Stephen Clarke, Arraymusic, Toronto (audio for fourth movement “Fourths + Fifths”)

Anni (2012) 9′
premiere: Jan 2021, Louie Hehman, Holy Name Catholic Church, Louisville, KY

perhaps bells do not play tunes (2005-09) 31′
premiere: Nov 2024, junctQín keyboard collective, Arraymusic, Toronto
(premiere of III. dream of a blue elf: Feb 2022, Stephen Clarke, Arraymusic, Toronto)

Holding Pattern (2003) 10′

Prelude (2002) 4.5′

Tessellata (1999-2001) 21′

urfunk etude (1997) 5′

For Celine (1995) 3′
premiere: Nov 2024, Piano Lunaire, Arts & Letter Club, Toronto

VARIOUS SOLO

blood of infinity (2025) 6′
for percussion (vib/mar)
commissioned by Arraymusic for David Schotzko
premiere: Jan 2026, Toronto

lonely little boat (2004) 5′
for alto kalimba

EARLY RECORDINGS

líthos klásma, electronic score for dance (1995) 13′

Indigo Pool, song for synthesizers, percussion and voice (1991) 3.5′

Study for Two Pianos and Tape (1990), with Garnet Willis 12′