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String Quartet No. I (2021) 27:00

for string quartet

This quartet is based on a song for singing cellist I wrote with and for my friend Miya Perry, to the following text: Glory girl, did you forget your name Did you believe in these grey droning halls The sun still rises, the bay still ebbs Nothing we lost is lost Glory boy, did you forget your name Did you believe in their sycophant calls The... Read More
This quartet is based on a song for singing cellist I wrote with and for my friend Miya Perry, to the following text: ... Read More

Overdrive (2019) 10:00

for string quartet

Premiered by the JACK Quartet Overdrive is a progressive metal song for string quartet. It was inspired by the music of Periphery, a band which uses detuned, extended range guitars to create dense, high-octane music. This piece uses brutal, unpitched string techniques to imitate the sounds of metal. Often, the appeal of listening to metal lies in hearing... Read More
Premiered by the JACK Quartet Overdrive is a progressive metal song for string quartet. It was inspired by the music ... Read More

Empress (2019) 12:30

for bass clarinet and piano

Written for Emmalie Tello Premiered by Emmalie Tello, clarinet and Yifei Xu, piano Generally, I tend to come up with titles for my pieces early in the writing process. It is my way of distilling the heart of the piece into a single, poignant word or two, a mantra through which I focus my creative energy. However, with this piece it was different - I ago... Read More
Written for Emmalie Tello Premiered by Emmalie Tello, clarinet and Yifei Xu, piano Generally, I tend to come up with... Read More

Paradise: Found (2015) 5:30

for string trio

This piece is inspired by the music of the Sufi Muslims, particularly that of the incredible Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. This specific work was originally conceived as the final movement of a set of three pieces, each a hymn without words, inspired by the devotional poetry of the Sufis, the ghazal, and the epic song form, the qawaali. Ghazals are character... Read More
This piece is inspired by the music of the Sufi Muslims, particularly that of the incredible Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan... Read More

Izgrejala (2018) 5:00

for clarinet, cello, and bassoon (ver. for brass trio available)

Premiered May 12, 2018 at the Czech Center New York This piece was written for the second annual European Literature Night at the Czech Center in New York City. The work was to be played as a commentary on the book Dancing Bears by Polish author Witold Szabłowski. The first ten chapters of the book talk about the tradition of training dancing bears in Bu... Read More
Premiered May 12, 2018 at the Czech Center New York This piece was written for the second annual European Literature ... Read More