Both Eyes Open
Experimental chamber opera for tenor, soprano, baritone, Marimba Lumina, and mixed ensemble.

2022 premiere at Presidio Theatre, San Francisco featuring Suchan Kim, baritone; Kalean Ung, soprano; John Duykers, tenor; Marja Mutru, piano; Joel Davel, Marimba Lumina; Cory Tiffin, clarinets; Emanuela Nikiforova, violin'; Ben Makino, conductor.

Made possible by support from the National Parks Service’s Japanese-American Confinement Sites Program, New Music USA, JFunds Commission, California Humanities, JA Community Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more info and booking, visit https://www.beo-opera.com

Home Project" (excerpts in process, 2021)
The Tiffany Mills Company
Nic Owens, Jordan Morley, dancers

Max Giteck Duykers
Ensemble Ipse
Folding Music
New World Records
Released May 2019

Track Listing:
1. Folding Music (13:06)
2. Scatterloop (8:52)
3. The Way In (8:47) - with guest soprano Zen Wu
4. Twilight for Adored and Breathless Moments (12:37)
5. Arborescence (10:54)
6. Dark Body (14:48)

The Way In (2015) for soprano, cello and piano.

Commissioned and premiered by Antisocial Music. 
Zen Wu, soprano; Kate Dillingham, cello; Craig Ketter, piano.
Based on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: some evening take a step
out of your house, which you know so well.
Enormous space is near, your house lies where it begins,
whoever you are.
Your eyes find it hard to tear themselves
from the sloping threshold, but with your eyes
slowly, slowly, lift one black tree
up, so it stands against the sky: skinny, alone.
With that you have made the world.  The world is immense
and like a word that is still growing in the silence.
In the same moment that your will grasps it,
your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it…

Dark Body (2014) for flute, violin, cello, and piano. 

Composed for and premiered by members of Ensemble Ipse: Margaret Lancaster, Esther Noh, John Popham, and Stephen Gosling. 

Produced by the New York Composers Circle.

The Table Where We Met (2012) dance score for violin and processed string quartet samples, featuring the string quartet, Praxis.

Commissioned by Ironworks On The Edge, composed for and premiered by Esther Noh, violin.

Glass Blue Cleft (2006-2008) for string quartet
Recorded by Escher String Quartet and released on Bridge Records (9318).  Composed for Esther Noh and the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players.

  • Charlotte New Music Festival (CNMF) and Beo String Quartet Composition Competition, winner

  • Music Now Competition, Winner

  • Fifth Annual NY Composers Circle Competition, Winner

  • Colors Composition Competition, Finalist

  • Hanson Young Composer Competition 2010, Honorable Mention

Glance (2009) for symphony orchestra (3,3,3,2; 4,3,3,1, 3 pc, timp, hp, strings). Composed for and premiered by the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Long, conductor.

  • Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute and Future Classics 2012 - Honorable Mention

  • Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute and Future Classics 2010 - Runner-Up