Chamber

Scores for purchase upon request
Email: bruce@elmahboob.com

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 rev. 2026) 9′
for ensemble (6 or 8 players: vib, mar, 2 vn, va, vc, optional fl & cl)
commissioned by Arraymusic
premiere: Feb 2024, Toronto

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 percussion and two pianos
premiere: Nov 2020, Arraymusic, Toronto

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

Zora (1994) 5′
for marimba, two pianos and cello
(also see vocal version)