Premiered at Denison University's 2017 Tutti New Music Festival

Performed by NOW Ensemble

The ideas for Moving Forward started in early summer 2015 when my boyfriend of two and a half years and I decided to break up. It was hard not to look at six months prior, when we were discussing moving in together and when we wanted to marry each other. I moved back home after graduating college, returned to my entry-level job in the family business, and felt like I had just fallen behind myself and my plans for the future; I moved backward in life. Memories of the relationship kept returning, keeping me feeling stuck and making me question who I was anymore.

But I wasn’t going to let myself stay put.

Friends and family taught me to let go and to move forward. Accept where I was and keep going. Don’t stop. The past can’t stop me, only push me. I would revisit the ideas that came to mind after the break up every now and then, feeling lost and trying to find myself. The music I wrote, though, created a picture not of the dread and heartbreak but of the momentum I was creating and the love I felt from family and friends.

So this piece is not about finding myself like I originally had thought it would be, but about moving forward.

Concert II

Moving Forward (Premiere)

Commissioned by Micah Candiotti-Pacheco as a Christmas gift for Jennifer Kennedy. Micah writes about the piece:

For Jennifer E. Kennedy
 
In one’s life, particularly spending time with loved ones, time seems to speed up and slow down. When we make the effort and slow it down, memories are more likely to be rooted in our brains so we may reminisce with our partners and share with our children and grandchildren for years to come. This piece is a celebration of the memories Jennifer and I share and a reminder for us to savor every moment, to savor every time you hold your hand in mine.

Premiered November 21, 2017
Staller Center for the Arts, Recital Hall

Flute: Jennifer Kennedy
Clarinet: Micah Candiotti-Pacheco
Piano: Nhi Huyhn

Photo Credit: "Holding Hands" by Brett Sayer
URL: https://flic.kr/p/77uLjq

To Hold Your Hand In Mine (Premiere)

Pianoday 2019
Music; Giovanni Sarani
MICRONIE IV

Mezzo Valzer

Music from the video game Sigma Theory.  Full soundtrack available here:
https://siddharthabarnhoorn.bandcamp.com/album/sigma-theory-global-cold-war

More info on the game here:
https://www.sigmatheorygame.com

The Sigma Theory - Deployment

Einojuhani Rautavaara - Passionale
Einojuhani Rautavaara is the leading Finnish composer of his generation (born 1928). His late style combines modernism with mystical romanticism. A typical example of this style, the solo piano work Passionale was premiered in 2003.

Thumbnail: Hélène Sauter

Einojuhani Rautavaara - Passionale

This track is from the album Festivale and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/adamhurst12

Across the River

Woke up late in the evening.
Phone gone raisin as time could tell.
The boy left tracks, you didn't eat them up.
All I see is blue, what a shell.
This holy book's looking kind beaten
He sees them.
No reason.
Is anyone even there?

All he needed was some company.
Company.
All that on heaven's grace. That boy is losing faith.
Among the places and faces he's never seen.
He's sees his to be queen
Just in his reach now
All he needed was some company.
Company.
All that on heaven's grace. That boy is losing faith.
Among the places and faces he's never seen.
It's funny just to dream.
That's all he needed.
The dream. 
The dream.

Buckling down, it's getting warmer around him.
Why he chose those surroundings, we might never know.
What does she need to be to make him satisfied?
Will anyone gratify?
This holy book's looking kind beaten
He sees them.
No reason.
Is anyone even there?

All he needed was some company.
Company.
All that on heaven's grace. That boy is losing faith.
Among the places and faces he's never seen.
He's sees his to be queen
Just in his reach now
All he needed was some company.
Company.
All that on heaven's grace. That boy is losing faith.
Among the places and faces he's never seen.
It's funny just to dream.
That's all he needed.
The dream.

So close yet so far out of reach.
How much time is left to see the peak.
The dream.

Way to Go

Grace

why'd you only call me when you're high

hey guys! I wrote and recorded this song three years ago. I was waiting for the perfect time to put it into the world but I figured out there will never be a perfect time. "Fade" used to be only mine but now it's yours. This is my favorite song I've ever written until this day. PS: the little girl is actually my big sister.

Fade

2020

Composer | Songwriter | Producer
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Classical Guitar diploma at Conservatorio Rossini
Songwriting diploma at BIMM Brighton

2020

Andrea Dhelpra

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