Recorded on April 16, 2025 at the National Music Centre in Calgary AB.

https://vimeo.com/1095340636

Departure (feat. Astralis Quartet)

Beach Song (feat. Astralis Quartet)

Interlude for String Quartet 031422- TW Kittel copyright 2022 BMI

Derivative work of Ella Andall's "Bring Down the Power", interpreted in a string quartet style.

The Power - 2016

Composed by Bruno Mars
Arranged and produced by Son Mach
Performed by TUSO - The United Saigon Orchestra
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©2025 Son Mach

Just The Way You Are [strings]

César Franck - String Quartet in D major - 1. Poco Lento - Allegro

Recorded by the Bergamot Quartet
MAAS Building, Philadelphia PA
July 11, 2025


This piece was commissioned by Orchestra 2001 as part of their “In the Key of El” project, which brought together local composers to write pieces inspired by murals that were visible from the Market-Frankford subway line (also called the “El”, aka the elevated line). I chose one in West Philly by Steve Powers (pictured below), which was right around the corner from where I was living at the time. I loved the imagery of the two outstretched arms, which could either be interpreted as one person grasping at the air in an attempt to hug something unseen, or two people reaching out for one another but just missing each others embrace. Hold Tight! attempts to depict the sensation of trying to grasp on to something – physically or metaphorically – that keeps constantly shifting, changing shape, making it all the more challenging to hold on.


Hold Tight!

Commissioned by The Walden School Faculty Commissioning Project for performance by Friction Quartet

Premiered by Friction Quartet
Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall, Dublin, NH, 12 July 2024


says the almanac, for string quartet (2024)

Recorded and mixed string quartet for a student film I worked on called Incoherence a psychological-thriller. 

2022-11-19 Incoherence Strings for Film

This arrangement of Roxette's Fading Like a Flower was made for my Masters Degree, however it has a deeper meaning. 

The Musicians playing this is myself:
1st Violin - Bronco Hutchings 
2nd Violin- Bronco Hutchings 
Viola- Bronco Hutchings 
Cello - Bronco Hutchings 

Fading Like a Flower - Roxette

Representing Calgary AB

Chillest Electric & Original Classical

Half of this stuff is class projects but I think it’s cool to see my progress so I’ll keep em up :)

Charlotte Rehfueß, Miriam Gruhle, Violins - 
Konrad Viebahn, Viola - 
Adrian-Minh Schumacher, Violoncello -
Prize-winning, dynamic ensemble formed of Munich students in 2013

The music of Cara Haxo juxtaposes delicate, sparkly textures with the gritty and the grotesque. Haxo is the winner of the 2022 NWMF Emerging Women Composers Competition. Other awards include the IAWM Libby Larsen and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prizes and the NFMC Young Composers Award. She has received commissions from the May Festival Youth Chorus, Quince Ensemble, and Splinter Reeds. Haxo is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at The College of Wooster and an Academic Dean and faculty member for The Walden School Young Musicians Program.

Violinist • Conductor  • Composer
Song-writer • Music producer
- Acoustic band: Rondo Band
- String quartet: TUSO in Chamber
- Jazz band: TUSO in Jazz
- TUSO: The United Saigon Orchestra

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