Live capture of the premiere performance by Adam Kossler (Blowing Rock, NC, 16 Mar, 2024)

Partita No. 2 | An Deilf | V. Fugue

Partita No. 2 | An Deilf | IV. Currachs - Double

Partita No. 2 | An Deilf | III. Fripperies - Double

Partita No. 2 | An Deilf | II. Currachs

Partita No. 2 | An Deilf | I. Fripperies

Daydreams for Strings

Originally premiered by the St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School Orchestra at the 2023 VMEA Composition Festival in Richmond, VA in November 2023. Also performed by musicians at the 2024 CMEA Conference in January 2024 and by the Washington Metropolitan Youth Orchestra in May 2024.

Daydreams for Strings (MIDI realization)

Stevens Fragments for guitar quartet is a multi-movement prismatic engagement with the poet Wallace Stevens' 'Harmonium.' It engages the technical mastery of the performers through complex harmonic transformations, intricate counterpoint, and rhythmic juxtapositions, juxtaposing my musical aesthetic and technics with Steven's profound but aphoristic descriptions of time, music, and experience.

Even in fragmentary form,  the poetry's ekphrasis of the physicality of performers, the symbolic significance of physical instruments, and the songs of birds push the reader always away from mundane life out to the Beyond.  The composition of the work and the premiere have been funded through a generous grant from the George Washington University in Washington DC.

Winslow Home, Fishing Boats, Keywest

Stevens Fragments

Performed by the Washington Metropolitan Youth Orchestra on May 5, 2024.

Also, thank you to Dr. Brian Cofill for the nomination to the 2023 Virginia Music Educators Association Composition Festival in Richmond, VA.

Daydreams (live performance by the Washington Metropolitan Youth Orchestra)

Blue Boat Home, for SATB choir and piano

BLUE BOAT HOME was commissioned by Madrigalia (Cary Ratcliff, Artistic Director) for their “Earthkeeping” concerts in April of 2024. These concerts were designed to showcase the beauty of our earth and the urgent need to preserve it.

Performance by Madrigalia, conducted by Cary Ratcliff

Blue Boat Home text by Peter Mayer

Blue Boat Home

Tate is a Canadian-American composer and violist from Alexandria, Virginia.

Daydreams for Strings (MIDI realization)

Tate Commission

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