My first string quartet piece performed at Cornish College of the Arts in my first year there.

Dance Without A Dancer (2010 performance)

Performed at my senior recital at Cornish College of the Arts. I hope to revisit this piece in the near future to revise it, as well as to write three additional movements. There were many hard lessons learned in the process of composing this piece. 

The piece evolves out of a slowly evolving minimalist texture with an ostinato bass as performed by the cello. The ostinato as well as melodic gestures in the first section are used as the basis of subsequent sections.

Dance Without A Dancer (2012 performance/St. Helens String Quartet)

A short one-hundred measure piece inspired by the cult film character Gamera.

Baby Gamera

Solo piano piece I composed for my junior recital. Much of this was written while have the video of the film, Metropolis, playing in the background.

Guardian of the Heart Machine

An art song I composed for my senior recital. I hope to write additional songs to complement this piece to be presented as a full song cycle.

It is imagined from the point of view of my birthmother, whom I have never met since seconds after my being born.

Many Lifetimes

This piece was my first attempt at incorporating jazz into my classical composition. It is meant to be a whimsical dramatization of a mischievous fox that constantly steals sake, partly out of an affection for drink and partly out of a delight in being the village trickster.

Tale Of The Sly Fox And The Sake Merchant

Written for my senior recital, this brass quintet is based upon the famous pig-man character from Journey to the West, hence the mixed themes of adventure and humor.

With some embarrassment, I confess that some of my structural choices were based on video game music. The sudden shifts in tone and thematic material were drawn by my experiences playing the Legend of Zelda, particularly in the way the music would change suddenly as you entered certain dungeon rooms or various contrasting areas of the mythical land of Hyrule

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