The thought on composing this piece, albeit initially conceived as programmatic from the movement of the water, is to explore stylistic diversity and the amount of precision needed in music for it to be perceived properly. 

Premiered and recorded at Manhattan School of Music on Nov 17, 2012. 

Violin: M. Hayne Kim, Min Yang
Viola: Midori S. Witkoshi
Cello: June-Hsuan Ko
Piano: Grace Han

Piano Quintet- Immersion I

Four pieces for orchestra consists of four distinct musics which succeed each other in a single movement. The concept of pieces refers not only to quantity but also to multiple aspects, in this case of a musical thinking.

Four Pieces For Orchestra

Inspired by the majestic spaciousness I witnessed during a trip to Tibet, Ritual for chamber orchestra, originally composed for solo bass, is a remembrance of the sense that you are on top of the world-alone. 

Premiered and recorded by New York Philharmonic on School Day concert on Feb 2, 2011. All rights reserved. 

Going Home- Ritual for chamber orchestra

The central mathmatic enigma Goldbach Conjecture, which consists of two parts: 1) any interger larger than 5 can be written as a sum of 3 prime numbers; 2) any EVEN interger larger than 2 can be expressed as a sum of 2 prime numbers. The method is realized in the piece in two ways, one using the number as the indication of the total beats of a measure, another (in the second mvmt) as PCS (Pitch Class Set) where A=1, B=3, etc. 

Premiered and recorded at Manhattan School of Music. 
Percussion: James Ritchie, Justin Doute, Clara Warnaar 

Goldbach Conjecture- for percussion trio

This short piece for solo violin was composed for a dear friend of mine in Baroque-style. Written on the end of the February in 2012, echoing another leap-year in the Baroque era.  

Performed by M. Hayne Kim.

Midnight in 1580- solo violin

Written for 12 individual string part, the arrangement of Bach Ricercar a 6 was commissioned to be featured at the conductor-less string ensemble Shattered-Glass's Carnegie debut on May 7, 2013. Inspired by Anton Webern's arrangement of the Ricercar in which melodic lines are passed from one instrument to another, resulting in an iridescent shimmer of tone-color. My arrangement utilizes a similar approach while employing a different palette: here, various unusual, ”extended“ techniques on the strings produce a kaleidoscopic range of timbre effects.

Performed and recorded by Shattered-Glass Ensemble at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, NY.

http://shattered-glass.org/

Arrangement: Bach Ricercar A 6

(double winds and brass, 3 perc/1 timp, 6,6,5,5,3)
Premiered and recorded at Manhattan School of Music, New York, Feb, 2014

Canvas for chamber orchestra

Premiered by Manhattan School of Music Composer Orchestra under the baton of Kyle Ritenauer. 

Vitarka

premiered by Moxie Trio -
 
Alyssa Greengrass, flute
Georgina Rossi, viola
Silvie Cheng, piano

recorded by Graduate Center of CUNY, on Feb 21, 2017.

Qin Ding

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