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Ms. Linto
(2014-09-30)
Ms. Linto is inspired by a famous Taiwan legend called Ms. Linto. This story happened in Tainan. Linto who is a widow and raises three kinds alone, was tricked out of her life saving by a smooth talking handsome man, ACSi ...
RetroRhapsody for two pianos, two basses and percussion
(2013)
RetroRhapsody takes its inspiration from the culturally fascinating early-to-middle
portion of twentieth-century American popular culture. Two of the biggest musical
developments were, of course, jazz and rock 'n roll, ...
Bird-like: five scenes for sinfonietta (or chamber orchestra)
(2015-07-28)
Bird-like is a continuous series of five musical scenes for sinfonietta, or, optionally,
chamber orchestra (single winds, with a small string section). Each scene is inspired by the
motions, behaviors, and physical ...
Darwin's Thought
(2015-07-28)
It is difficult to describe accurately the bond between humans and society.
Our current society is morphing at such a gradual pace that no one seems to notice
many changes. Those changes, however, accumulate and in fact ...
Escape from the Evil Empire
(2015-07-28)
A dirge for soprano, women’s chorus, and orchestra, ‘Escape from the Evil Empire’ was
created with the idea of composing original music for an epic, major motion picture. The original
text speaks of unwanted souls in a ...
Excursus: Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media
(2015-07-28)
Commissioned by coloratura soprano Mikaela Sullivan for performance in April
2014, Excursus explores the methods in which modern television broadcasting attempts to
provide different facets of human desire, thus propagating ...
Piano concerto for piano and full orchestra
(2014-07-29)
The first movement of my Piano Concerto presents my unique methods of
developing motives. There are two main motives that are used to construct almost all
material in the piece. I also have two main methods of developing ...
Quaerere Sententias I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015-03-09)
Quaerere Sententias (“search for meaning”) is a collection of pieces composed
for soloists, digital audio, and video. The first set, Quaerere Sententias I, is comprised of
three pieces: Introit, for trumpet; Hiram, for ...
Love and Reform: a chamber operetta
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-23)
"Love and Reform" is a chamber operetta composed from a libretto written by the
composer for female narrator, soprano, tenor, bass, and string quintet. The drama is an
Epicurean satire concerning the imagined afterlife ...
Gumiho: how I tried to give up eating human livers and love someone: an opera in two acts
(2014-08-28)
Gumiho (pronounced goo-mi-ho) is an opera based on an ancient Korean folktale about
a 5,000 year old fox-monster with nine tails whose only source of nourishment is human
livers. The complete opera will be in two acts ...
Fit to Live, a flexible form concerto for wind ensemble
(2014-08-28)
This work is a flexible form concerto for trumpet and wind ensemble. It
consists of several fixed sections, or modules, that can be put together in several
specific pre-determined ways to create various versions of the ...
Three Images of the Vicissitude of Weather : a chamber orchestra
(2014)
Three Images of the Vicissitude of Weather is a piece for chamber orchestra and consists
with three movements (Darkness Before a Storm, The Chaos, and One Fine Morning) by
describing images of changing weather. The piece ...
Chamber Symphony
(2015-08-04)
“Chamber Symphony” is a symphony for chamber orchestra (flute/piccolo, oboe/english
horn, clarinet, bassoon, two horns in F, piano, and strings) and soprano. It is in a nesting doll
structure. That is, there are increasingly ...
Time, Unfolding
(2014-09-30)
time, unfolding was written for performance in the 70th Annual Composers
Conference at Wellesley College. It explores the slow unfolding of musical materials
and how it affects our perception of musical time. The idea ...
Child's Play:a Collection of Three Pieces for Instruments and Fixed Electronic Media
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015-03-09)
"Child's Play" is a collection of three pieces for instruments and fixed electronic media inspired by the sounds of my daughter's toys. The first piece, "With My Eyes Shut" is for clarinet and fixed electronic media, the ...
Lapse of time, for flute, clarine, violin, cello, percussion and piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2014)
The inspiration for this piece came from some initial sounds in my mind. The music is combination of these sounds, which sometimes mix well and sometimes collide. In order to realize these sounds, I created three primary ...
Flourishes (2012.13) for chamber orchestra
(2014)
flourishes (2012.13) for chamber orchestra was composed for the Summer
Music Institute at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The title serves as
a description for the active woodwind parts and large scale ...
Redwall Symphonic Poem for Orchestra
(2015-08-04)
Redwall is programmatically based off of the Redwall book series by Brian Jacques. The story takes place in a
medieval world where animals are given human characteristics. The protagonist, Martin, is a slave mouse who ...
Tsuki no Shirabe for flute and koto
(2015)
Tsuki no Shirabe was composed at the request of Jun Aita-san to
commemorate her 60th birthday of her mother, Michiko Saito-san. I
asked to compose music that is both reminiscent of Japanese music and
aesthetics, and also ...
Cryptogram (2011) for wind ensemble
(2015)
Cryptogram is a nine-minute, one-movement composition for wind ensemble
that explores the use of embedded musical quotations to generate basic melodic,
harmonic, and formal structures. In contrast to traditional quotation, ...