Excerpt of live performance by Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

Reverberations - excerpt

Showcasing my most representative works — though I have no idea what that actually means in any detail.

Modulation Etude No. 10 in A Major (2022)

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, English Horn, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon

Wind Sextet in A (LIVE) (2019)

175 - Canon in D (a3) (2022)

153 - Canon In Augmentation (2021)

150 - Double Canon In Contrary Motion (2020)

Nick Davies, Clarinet, Wesley Ducote, piano

A "cabinet of curiosities,” also known as a Wunderkammer, is an elaborate cupboard used as a repository of diverse and exotic objects, the assembly of which was a popular pastime for the affluent European of the 16th and 17th centuries. (The trompe l’oeil cabinet at left is by Andrea Domenico Remps, ca. 1620–1699.)

A typical cabinet would contain a wide array of small, rare and intriguing items drawn from the natural world (ornate coral and shells, bizarre insects), science (intricate clocks and toys, distorted mirrors), history (letters, relics, antiquities) and art (carvings, miniature paintings, figurines). imageCabinet of Curiosities presents a similarly diverse musical collection: six short pieces, each one with a somewhat peculiar and idiosyncratic character. The first imagines a still life painting in which one of the subjects is less than stationary. The second is a sort of vaulting dance, written as a musical palindrome. There follows an anamorphic fantasy on an old English folksong, a stately Baroque dance built on ascending and descending scales, and a billet doux for solo clarinet. The last movement is a set of rhythmic variations on the eleven-beat Bulgarian Kopanitsa rhythm.

Cabinet of Curiosities: 3. Early One Morning in a Convex Mirror

To Know a City Completely (2025)
Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
Rebekah Fawn Heller, conductor

Audio spliced from premiere and rehearsals

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To Know a City Completely

The piece is a setting of a poem by the same name by Jennifer Michael Hecht.  The text can be understood a number of ways associated with the larger issue of loss.  The baroque orchestra Eudaimonia commissioned the piece for their premiere concert, which focused on homelessness.  The group partners with social action groups in the Boston area, with Shelter Music Boston as its first partner.  Carrie Cheron and Pamela Murphy are the singers, supported by an orchestra of period instruments, including chalumeau, recorder, and baroque flutes.

September

Early version of the main theme from Oni, an upcoming original horror film.

153 - Canon In Augmentation (2021)

Bradley de Lucia

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