This piece is about Cain's sacrifice to God from the story of Cain and Abel. We are told that Cain's heart was corrupted, but we do not know to what degree. In my opinion, he was not completely corrupted until the Devil convinced Cain to murder his brother Abel. This piece depicts Cain's partially corrupted heart.

To show the corruption, I edited the samples to create a spectrum of recognizability. Try to hear the corrupted sounds as they range from glitchy to pitch shifted, from muted to completely unrecognizable. The samples were taken from a number of objects like door handles, markers and erasers, the mouth, projector and screen, a wooden desk, a metal water bottle, and keys.

Heart of Cain

Heart Of Cain

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.

Heart Of Cain

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