Of My Own Mvt 3

Of My Own Mvt 2

Of My Own Mvt 1

Just A Few Short Hours

Integrated Unity juxtaposes the flute and piano’s physical body with a mostly unified and homogenous musical
texture to explore a balance of timing, orchestration, rhythm, silence, and repetition. Together, the musical lines
integrate in and out of unison, while attempting to blur the metric feel of a pulse that returns and leaves. Inspired
by AI generative art, this composition hopes to create a work that feels familiar, yet provides a fresh quirky
perspective of run-on sentences and incomplete thoughts integrated into a cohesive piece.

Integrated Unity

Unfolding Transitions

Commissioned by the Zodiac Trio in 2016

Dedicated to Louis Gualtieri

In a musty and damp basement, I came across an old shoebox.  Inside, there were kept correspondences and keepsakes from my grandfather to my grandmother.  They ranged from everyday notes to birthday cards to pages upon pages of handwritten letters during World War II. Hidden away in a simple unpretentious shoebox, these keepsakes of a dying art form were almost thrown away and forgotten.  Moved and touched by the simple fragility, love, and hope that these letters represented, I composed my own.  Commissioned by the Zodiac Trio in 2016, Long Distance represents the isolation and separation of lovers, friends, and family, who hope, wish, and wait for their next reunion.

Long Distance

Read and Recorded by the Mivos Quartet in 2016

The Canary Who Sang

Four-part Male Choir (Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone, & Bass). Based on Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, Mariposa.

Sung by New York Polyphony

Mariposa

Hand Carved Names and Railroad Tracks

Coded Bars is inspired by American consumerism through its source material of bar codes from non-perishables.

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