Bearing the title "Collateral Damage," the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra was composed for clarinetist and former colleague Håkan Rosengren. It was completed over a six week period during the months of February and March of 2000 and was premiered by Peter Wright (Principal Clarinetist) and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (Fabio Machetti, Conductor) on March 3 & 4, 2005 at the Times-Union Performing Arts Hall in Jacksonville, Florida. The work was also performed by Frank Cohen and the Cleveland Orchestra in July, 2005 at Blossom Music Pavillion.

The 20 minute work is somewhat eclectic and post modern in style and follows the traditional three movement form. The faster outer movements are a musical blend of both contemporary classical and Eastern European folk idioms. By contrast, the slower middle movement incorporates musical elements that characterize some of the popular music of the late 20th century. Inspired largely by the tragic events which surrounded the break-up of the former Yugoslavia during the 1990's, the work is dedicated to the civilian victims of all modern wars.

The opening movement is titled "A Bosnian Rhapsody" and is the longest and structurally the most complex of the three movements. It is built on two contrasting themes, one faster and the other much slower, each set in tonalities that are a semi-tone apart. These original themes incorporate harmonic and melodic idioms commonly found in the music of the balkans and they give the opening movement its distinctive ethnic flavor. Following a powerful climax each of these themes is briefly reprised. This gives way to a more introspective and subdued but expressive cadenza which ends the first movement.