Recorded by Ritual Action (Andrew Nogal, oboe; Andy Hudson, clarinet; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon)

Recorded by Ralph Loza at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, IL

Texan Brass Monkey Turbines

My arrangement of Let It Snow with Michael Neu, sax; Andrew Meyer, trombone; Benedetto Colagiovannu, keys; Jeremy Reidy, drums and mixing;

Let It Snow

An arrangement of Bill Evans's "Tiffany" for the Frost SJB & VJ1 Bill Evans Tribute Concert on March 28, 2017.

Tiffany

"Brux" (2016) performed by Ensemble Ibis as a part of the University of Miami Ensemble Ibis Competition Concert. "Brux" was selected as the winner of the graduate division.

Brux

Shadow Tag was written for the 2018 Frost All-Stamps Concert as a piece to feature the prestigious Frost chamber groups as a combined ensemble. The title is loosely inspired by the struggle or “game” of moving on from past experiences while looking positively towards the future.

Written for the University of Miami All-Stamps Ensemble, premiered February 26th, 2018 at Gusman Recital Hall

Shadow Tag

Pathos depicts emotional understanding through reactions of a nonspecific tragic event, affecting each performer in different ways.

Premiered at my Master's Degree Recital on April 21st, 2018.
Morgan Denney, violin; Omar Macias, cello; Keven Knowles, piano.

Pathos (sympathy)

The culmination of my Master's degree, Personaphrenia combines elements of contemporary classical and jazz big band, and is inspired by the Greek temperaments. It comprises of three movements: 
I. Spitfire
II. Sand Dune
III. Tide Pool

Russ Macklem, Jesse Klirsfield, Andrew Loose, Michael Dudley, trumpets; Derek Pyle, Will Wulfeck, Eli Feingold, Wesley Thompson, trombones; Tom Kelly, Sam Valancy, Chris Thompson-Taylor, Carlos Mata-Alvarez, Clint Bleil woodwinds; Mackenzie Karbon, vibraphone; Leo Folsom, piano; Sam Dickinson, guitar; Lowell Ringel, bass; Gibb Mandish, drums

Personaphrenia

Variations for Piano on "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall", written 2014.

Premiered by the wonderful Larisa Soboleva at the SCI KMA joint recital March 6th, 2018.

Take One Down, Pass It Around

CRUEL BARS is a musical interpretation on Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy”, with the vocalist and marimba symbolizing the relationship between the bird and the cage.   Despite the poem being written over a century ago, the meaning still rings true, with the piece’s title alluding mass incarceration specifically.

Premiered by Britney Yauger (voice) and Will Labossiere (marimba) May 12th, 2019 at Messiah College.

Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;   
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,   
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,   
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—
I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;   
For he must fly back to his perch and cling   
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars   
And they pulse again with a keener sting—
I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,   
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!.

Cruel Bars

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