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What if the noise wasn't eternal? What if it was?

What if the performer of this controversial piece took the controversy a step further?

Psalm 18 is a personal favorite of mine. The imagery of a God who will never let you stumble in the darkness by providing you light. An obvious choice for this, my first piece to seriously incorporate lighting. 

This loosely-programmatic work for oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon captures the essences of two photos of nature. This piece will serve as my MM Composition thesis at BGSU. 

This in-progress piece was originally an orchestral work but will be best expressed as a wind ensemble piece. Featuring dramatic brass moments and dense quintal harmonies, this piece will be performed within the next academic year. 

My second work for string ensemble, this work captures my response to the Biblical Book Lamentations. This piece marks two turning points in my style, both the beginning of my interest in quintal harmony and my continued inspiration by poetry/images. 

Written in less than twenty-four hours for the cellist Joshua Lyphout during a new music event, this piece explores symmetries and factorization in the number "180" in a pointillist quasi-Messiaen space. 

This chamber etude explores a unique medium with a variety of possibilities -- any three woodwinds and any keyboard. Throughout the piece, the three woodwind players are "pitted against each other" with challenges to dominate textures and play in non-idiomatic ways as they explore any of the billions of paths between two-measure cells. Performers are also encouraged to use this piece to learn new doubling instruments.  

Inspired heavily by that iconic Japanese poem and modal setting, this sextet explores the pentatonic space often called the "Miyako-Bushi" or "In" scale. In this piece I explore new harmonic space and strive to contribute contemporary techniques to the trumpet ensemble repertoire, something that I believe is strongly needed. 

These include:

Showcase - Brass Trio

Iberian Rose - Brass Quintet

Inertia - Trumpet Ensemble

Flourishes - Flute and Piano

Constant Change Figures - Mezzo-Soprano and PIano

Dances for a Trio - Piano Trio

Motet - Clarinet consort

Deep Dungeons - Chamber wind ensemble

Shimmers - Woodwind Choir

Octet - Trombone Octet