Continuing with arranging piano pieces for orchestra.

As always, constructive criticism welcome!

A. Dvořák – Humoresques, Op. 101 No 5

I wrote this short light-hearted piece as an homage to one of my favorite holidays. I tried to infuse the dark side of Halloween with a bit of comedy and playfulness. My inspiration was the character Witch Hazel from the Warner Brothers cartoons. 

Performed with East West Symphonic Orchestra. I think I used every pizzicato patch I had available...

A Scherzo for Halloween

I couldn't resist adding this short piece I composed a few weeks ago to celebrate Halloween. I wanted to compose something that utilized some of the rarely used effects in my sound libraries. 

Happy Halloween everyone!

Down in the Basement

I wrote this short excerpt while working on a larger project. I was thinking of a chase scene and kept the music fast paced and driving.

Produced with East West Symphonic Orchestra

Music for a Brief Chase Scene

An older composition which I re-orchestrated with East West samples. It was inspired by Tōru Takemitsu's score to the film Ran, which in turn was inspired by Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Perhaps I quoted a bit heavy from Mahler but it is one of my favorite pieces of his.

Art by Katie Imbro (Syringes)
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/syringes/slender-man?context=ratings:etm.search:forest.offset:22

Forest, at Dusk

I was going for a light sci-fi type feel. Performed with EWQLSO.

Ice Planet

I imagined a cold-war era spy for this scherzo-like piece. Performed with EWQLSO and Garritan Personal Orchestra.

A little Espionage

The second in a series of short works centered on Chicago, my hometown. This work imagines the listener strolling through Lincoln Park on an autumn day. 

Performed with EWQLSO.

***Note***
This is a rearrangement of an earlier work. I've re-orchestrated it and remastered it.

Lincoln Park in Autumn

I composed this short piece while working on a larger project. It's more of an experiment for me. I wanted to create a perpetual motion style piece, so I took a very simple chord progression (amin, dmin,amin, EMaj) and went from there, seeing how far I could go with such a simple progression. Overall I liked the result, and might try something like it again.

Performed with EWQLSO.

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