for mixed pitch percussion and drum percussion

Midi realization

Pots a' Cookin – for percussion ensemble (midi)

Br (2024)

I'm Your Biggest Fan (2024)

Panic (2024)

Concert performance recording (2020: Turtle Bay Music School, NYC)

2000 Turtle concert

A Song Alone

No Worries (2024)

(Audio is a midi realization)
A passage through an emotional landscape, moving through memories – at moments dark and remote, other times lucid.

Moving Through Shadows & Light-flute, harp, viola

Duet for marimba & drums. (Audio is a midi realization)

Shifting Gears - Percussion Duet (midi realization)

An impressionistic duet for marimba and piano. Audio is a midi realization.

Moonlit Mists-marimba & piano (midi)

Moonlit Mists - for piano (midi)

The percussion instruments used in this work are all everyday objects that can be found anywhere.  These “instruments” include glass jars, tine cans, a plastic bucket, and a large wooden block.  They were chosen for their varied timbres and individual sounds.

Snapshots is a collection of five short piece. In this work, each percussion instrument is given the opportunity to shine.  The first four pieces have a featured soloist in which on of the four instruments gets to show its personality, while the others provide commentary and rhythmic support.  The first piece features the sound of the tin cans; the second, the plastic bucket; the third, the wooden bucket; and the fourth, the glass jars.  After each instrument has had its say, they all come together for the final piece, which is constructed like a fugue.  It is based on a rhythmic theme that is stated and answered by all four instruments, allowing them to become equal in importance.

The work was performed by percussionists Cesare Papetti, Christopher Bonacorsa, Robert Kistler and Justin Wolf.

"Flight" from Snapshots (2006)

Jennifer Mary Castellano

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