This is the abridged version of Dancing Lines. This piece was written for cellist Patricia Burton. This was written with her collaboration at Ball State University in January and February 2022. I extend my gratitude towards her expert opinion as she helped me perfect the difficulty and create a piece designed specifically for cello.

Program Note: Dancing Lines is about conveying a dance-like pulse through groupings of
two and three eighth-notes. The idea was to create this pulse that goes throughout the whole piece, never dying out or slowing down. There are moments where the intensity will deescalate, but the pulses will remain in the same tempo. The middle section takes the melody presented at the beginning and scrambles it up, using it to create harmony from combining the different lines, or turning the line on its side. This is what inspired the name: Dancing Lines

Dancing Lines - Abridged (Live)

This piece is specifically designed to portray the feeling of impatience waiting for my wedding day. This is my favorite piece from my wedding collection for Brass Quintet. Each of the movements represented a different emotion I felt during the months leading up to my wedding day.

Impatience

This piece is specifically designed to portray the emotion of euphoria. This is one of several emotions that I wrote out for brass quintet as I was approaching my wedding day. This is just one movement from my Wedding Collection for Brass Quintet.

Euphoria

This piece was specifically designed to represent the emotion of longing. This is one of several movements I wrote as I was waiting for my wedding day. This is part of my Wedding Collection for Brass Quintet.

Longing

This piece was specifically written to portray the emotion jubilant. This is one movement I wrote waiting for my wedding day. It is part of my Wedding Collection for Brass Quintet.

Jubilant

This is a reimagining of the music to this famous musical number. It was commissioned by the WIU Wind Ensemble in 2018 to pay tribute to all the veterans in the Macomb, IL area. This is a live recording of the WIU Wind Ensemble with Soloist Dr. Penelope Schumate.

You'll Never Walk Alone

You'll Never Walk Alone (Band Arrangement)

This is a orchestration of a piece I wrote for piano durring my undergrad at Illinois Colege. This piece is suppose to portray the crashing ocean wave onto the White Cliffs at Dover.

White Cliffs of Dover

White Cliffs Of Dover

This is one movement from my Master's Thesis. I think it especially excels at capturing the idea of the passing of time by showing how the theme gets lost until it gets resurrected again by a new generation.

Dancing Lines - Abridged (Live)

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