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Crossroads of the Earth
(2024)
Crossroads of The Earth is a single-movement mixed quartet in five sections, set for flute/piccolo, alto saxophone, violoncello, and piano. My inspiration for this composition stemmed from the environmental awareness film ...
The Autumn Leaves Swirl in Crisp October Wind
(2023)
The Autumn Leaves Swirl in Crisp October Wind is a programmatic work for wind ensemble consisting of five sections. Each section of the work takes the listener on a journey through my own childhood memories of autumn in ...
Fantasia Nirvana
(2022)
“To see a world in a wild flower, to see yourself like a bodhi in a leaf”, this philosophical reflection springs from writings within the Vimalakirti Sutra. It claims that all phenomena have no root or result, without its ...
Dispatches
(2023)
Dispatches is an eight-movement work that focuses on the very human emotions of love and desire, including the darker side of these, as well as the effects of separation on the heart and mind. Using a small chamber ensemble ...
This is All It Is for Treble Voice and Fixed Media
(2023)
This is All It Is for treble voice and fixed media was born of the composer’s mission to combine her most admired genres of music. All five songs feature homages toward both pop music and electroacoustic traditions, however, ...
What Pain Calls to Witness for Mezzo-soprano, Clarinet, Piano, and Fixed Media
(2023)
What Pain Calls to Witness is an extended song cycle for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano, and fixed media, that contemplates aspects of disability. The work sets seven poems from Travis Chi Wing Lau’s Vagaries, which explores ...
A Faint Light
(2022)
My orchestra piece, A Faint Light, has an introduction, five sections (Entering the mountain, The battle of ghosts I, Asking the God of the mountain, The battle of ghosts II, and The answer to the heart), and a coda. It ...
String Quartet I
(2021)
String Quartet I is a composition in four movements for string quartet. Each movement expresses a specific emotional and sensory experience with rainwater. Movement I, "Flood Plain," was inspired by wetlands in Nebraska ...
Viola Concerto
(2021)
This work seeks out a few different questions in each of its movements, present always though is the question of the relationship between the individual and group. This relationship comes to the fore in the genre of concerto ...
Book of Birds
(2021)
Book of Birds is a composition for flute and electronics inspired by birds. Throughout human history, artists have developed stories and music about the natural world around them. In this piece, Book of Birds, I am adding ...
Mountains in the Distance
(2021)
This thesis explores the mechanics of musical composition and
orchestration through the lens of an orchestral tone poem. The work
presents various musical materials with characteristics and qualities in
accordance ...
Broken Gourd
(2021)
Broken Gourd for Wind Ensemble uses elements from Dominican and Haitian folklore such as rhythms taken directly from the Afro-Latinx communities (mainly from Haitian voodoo drumming) combined with melodic lines that imitate ...
Memories of My Hometown
(2021)
My orchestral piece, Memories of My Hometown, has two movements: I. Pine Trees Standing on the Snowy Mountain; II. Passionate Land. After studying abroad for many years, I yearned for my hometown in China and hoped to ...
Daughter of Bird and Earth
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The single movement symphonic poem Daughter of Bird and Earth draws its inspiration from my own long poem in modern Chinese, The Resurrection of Poems, which narrates an imaginary woman’s life journey, both internally and ...
Allied Armada, A Dynamic Soundtrack for a Real-Time Strategy Computer Game
(2020)
Allied Armada is a Real-Time Strategy game, with a Sci-Fi setting in outer space. The soundtrack was composed with a dynamic system that allows it to respond to what is happening within the game; broadly, it can switch ...
Sprout
(2020)
From my perspective, the beauty of life lies in its tenacity and endlessness. This beauty is especially reflected in the flowers that grow in the cracks in the rocks. It takes a lot of ups and downs to breakthrough. ...
New Psalms for S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B. Chorus, A Capella
(2020)
The Book of Psalms in the Old Testament is a collection of 150 ancient lyrical poems intended for prayer and worship of the Jehovah God. The title is derived from the Greek word Psalmoi, which stands for “words sung to a ...
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 ...
The Awakening of Insects
(2020)
The Awakening of Insects is the third of the twenty-four solar terms in the traditional Chinese calendars. In China, people believe that during this solar term, thunderstorms will wake up the hibernating insects, indicating ...
Material Evidence
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Material evidence is a twelve-and-a-half minute long work for twenty-two musicians
and electronics. The main inspiration for the work came as a combination of scientific
research in the field of music cognition and ...