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Concerto for Two Horns and Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This concerto for two horns and orchestra is a 25-minute work for two virtuoso horn
players and full-size orchestra. The work draws on images of the Rocky Mountains and
Western United States. Three movements depict a ...
The Birth of the Eternal for String Orchestra, Piano and Percussion
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
The Birth of the Eternal is a one-movement composition for string orchestra, piano and
percussion. It is written as a centennial commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and
honors the memory of the victims of the ...
BOOM!!! ...for Real!
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
BOOM!!! ...for Real! is a fifteen-minute chamber concerto for alto saxophone
(doubling tenor) and mixed chamber ensemble. The paintings and techniques of three
American expressionist painters—Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, ...
Un Chien Andalou – An Orchestral Film Score
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Un Chien Andalou - An Orchestral Film Score, is a one-movement work for small
orchestra composed as live accompaniment to the 1929 silent film Un Chien Andalou by
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Several factors went ...
For whom the bell tolls for flute (piccolo), soprano saxophone (alto saxophone), percussion, and piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This piece is inspired by "Meditation XVII”, a poem written by John Donne in 1624.
It appears in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Seuerall Steps in my Sicknes. The
opening line is:
"PERCHANCE he for whom this ...
Suite for the Passersby
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This work is a suite of seven pieces for solo instruments (bass
clarinet, cello, french horn, clarinet, piano, and two works for soprano)
and interactive electronics and one piece for fixed electronics, designed for ...
Five Ekmousikés for Solo Piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
“Five Ekmousikés” is a multi-movement work composed for solo piano, dedicated to and
to be premiered by my grandmother, Dr. Janet Bass Smith. Each movement in this work is
programmatically tied to a piece of extra-musical ...
A Remedy for Death For Mixed Ensemble
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
A Remedy for Death is a three-movement composition for mixed ensemble,
which is inspired by the love of God in the bible.
The first movement, “The Fall of Man”, is based on the book of Genesis
chapter ...
ORATORIO No. 1
(2023)
“ORATORIO NO. 1” is a multimedia polyptych for solo instrumentalist, live electronics, fixed media, short film, and interactive video. This work focuses on confusion of personal identity and the representation of self ...
Ember for orchestra
(2019)
Ember is a single-movement piece for orchestra which combines my years of compositional experience, the exploration of musical aesthetics, an experiment of adapting electronic music technique in acoustic writing, and a ...
A New Space (new) for Mixed Jazz Chamber Ensemble
(2020)
A New Space (new) is scored for a mix of chamber orchestral instruments and jazz instruments, and unfolds in three movements. They progress from a celebration of intentionality and traditional composition in the first, to ...
(asymmetries of matter)
(2020)
(asymmetries of matter) is a work for chamber ensemble comprised of voice, trumpet, trombone and bass clarinet, as well as a series of four shorter solo works, one for each instrument of the ensemble, that are embedded ...
Shattered Music
(2023)
Shattered Music (2023) is approximately a twenty-minute composition for woodwind quintet. This piece explores my feelings and reflections over the past ten years of composition studies at the collegiate level. I explore ...
The Fairy Songs: A Theater Piece for Voice, Electronics, Lighting, and Theatrical Components
(2022)
The Fairy Songs is a theatrical composition written for voice, fixed media,
live electronics, and auxiliary percussion presented as a frame for collaboration
with some form of visual or performative media. The text is ...
The Accelerationist International
(2022)
The Accelerationist International is scored for wind ensemble, with the addition of a pop consort consisting of electric guitar, electric keyboard, electric bass, and drum kit, as well as a narrator and fixed media. The ...
Persona Con Grata for Saxophone Duo
(2022)
Persona Con Grata for Saxophone Duo is a three-movement musico-theatrical exploration of the musician’s psyche. In focusing on the saxophone as an extension of the persona, corporality, and voice, and using extended ...
Calming The Waves Double Wind Orchestra
(2022)
This composition portrays through music the artistic conception found in the Chinese writer Su Shi’s (1037-1101) poem “Calming the Waves.”
The poem speaks of the weather in nature as ordinary and indistinguishable, and ...
The Tale of the Southern Tour
(2021)
The Tale of the Southern Tour for orchestra is commissioned by The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Shaoguan City in Guangdong province in 2019. The piece received its world premiere in December 2019 at the Guangzhou ...
The Wanderer in the Depths of Dreams for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Two Percussionists, Piano, Classical Guitar, Violin, Cello, and Live Electronics
(2021)
This piece is the final piece of music composed using my favorite techniques and styles before entering my doctorate program. For me, it marks both a watershed of my professional development and a brand-new start. Drawing ...
Antumbra - Concerto for Classical Guitar and Chamber Orchestra
(2021)
Antumbra (ænt - UHM - bruh) is a concerto for classical guitar and chamber orchestra with programmatic elements based on the toils of self-discovery. The Latin word ‘antumbra’ (‘ant-‘: “before”; ‘umbra’: “shadow”) describes ...