Sonatina for Cello and Piano
Written for Joshua Morris
- Prelude
- Sonatina
- Theme and Variations
Music Composition | Clarinet Performance
Written for Joshua Morris
For Two Clarinets
Written for Jarrett Hoffman
Written for Semble N
My Two Recitatives should be thought of as a set of two rhapsodic solo pieces with accompaniment.
The Four Caprices are meant to be concise pieces of contrasting affects, allowing the clarinet to be colored by a wide range of percussion.
The title Binge came when I realized the timeline of the piece matched thetimeline of a typical over-indulgence: The piece begins with a long period of energetic excess, treating all of the instrum
Much of In Your Absence is in a passionless, meccanico style, asserted with constricted gestures and repeating patterns.
For most of the piece, the strings play a series of ostinati, unsynchronized with the pulse of the rest of the ensemble. The other instruments take turns playing duets accompanied by the strings.
In Three Movements
Commissioned by Tanglewood Music Center
Performed by Ally Smither and Tanglewood Music Center orchestral fellows
Text by Alex Taylor
for escapeVelocity
for Da Camera Young Artist Program
for Music from Copland House at Copland House CULTIVATE
for Ally Smither and Ben Roidl-Ward
for Akropolis Reed Quintet at I-Park
In Trailing Wings, I imagined a concertino in which the ensemble behaves like a flock of birds.