The Chase

Quest

Checkmate

Leaving Home

The First Dream

Michelle and Andrew

Constellations

Elegy

The Fighting Irish

What If

Fantasy Noir was written in 2019-2020 for the USC Thornton Symphony. Growing up, the music of cinema surrounded me. It was one of my earliest introductions to the music composed in the 20th century.  Particularly, the music that came of Hollywood's "Golden Age" influenced me significantly.  Listening to these scores opened my ears to many types of music; some scores wielded the romantic lyricism of Wagnerian drama, other scores brought extended techniques and dissonant crunches into motion pictures. As such, my output is undeniably and inseparably infused by a narrative drive, albeit one that is less programmatic in form as much as generally inspired by mood. This piece is my love letter to the scores of noir cinema, a music for the fog engulfed alleys and the cases afoot. It is certainly a send up and an homage to the genre, but also a departure from, reimagining what a noir can entail.

Fantasy Noir

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Pianist, cellist, composer
Los Angeles

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