This is a MIDI mockup of my newest piece for Wind Ensemble. This was composed during the height of the pandemic in 2020 as wave after wave of illness and sadness swept through the world.

Untitled For Wind Ensemble

World Premier: Recorded in Malmö, Sweden in April 2022 by the Malmö Sinfonietta under the direction of my good friend, Ossian Edlund.

Elegy - String Orchestra

Performed by SDSU's Jazz Combo 2. This is my first attempt at writing for jazz combo.

Modal Blues

My second attempt at writing for Jazz combo. Performed by SDSU's combo 2.

Not Quite

This song was originally composed as a simple song inspired by the legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans, for one of my piano students Bill Barry. With the help of professor Karl Soukup and jazz arranger/composer/performer Justin Joyce, I adapted this for a small jazz combo. It is performed by members of SDSU's Combo 2 and recorded at Studio West with overdubs at SDSU.

Song for Bill

Song For Bill

A 3 movement composition written for brass ensemble based on a quote attributed to the Buddha:

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

The 1st and 2nd movements are musical representations of the two most influential celestial bodies in our solar system: the sun and the moon. 

The sun provides us with everything we need to survive as a species and as a planet. 

The moon controls the tides and provides us a reflection of the sun's light at night.

The third movement tries to represent the truth.

The truth is very hard to define. I can only provide an analogy which I think comes close: truth is like beauty. We can all agree that beauty exists but rarely (if ever) can we agree upon exactly what beauty is. So I wrote something that I thought was beautiful and hopefully the listener can find the truth within it.

The Truth

The Moon

The Sun

This piece was written for the Arktisk Sinfonietta based in Tromsø, Norway. Nordlys is the Norwegian word for Norther Lights. This recording is the world premiere from June 2nd, 2018.

Nordlys

This is the premier performance of the sinfonietta arrangement of Nordlys. Performed on March 10th, 2019 by the DKDM Sinfonietta as part of the 2019 Pulsar festival. Conducted by Jean Thorel.

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