Musical Compositions

Videos

Here are live performances of some of my pieces.

The Days Ya See for flute and piano, performed at the Kennedy Center by members of the Navy Band, June 2010. The piece begins around minute 06:00, and I gave a speech at minute 4:30. I had this opportunity because I was fortunate enough to win a composition contest run by the MENC.
The Junior Providence Singers singing Autumn at an MENC meeting, March 2009.
Evening, from a piano recital in June 2011.
Step by Step for cello, performed by Suzanne Mueller at a Vox Noxus 15 Minutes of Fame concert, September 2012.
Dad and I playing Etr'amis.
Dad and I playing Cryspy Dance.

Here are more of my compositions, as audio files generated by the music notation package Finale.

Proginoskes. This piano piece is named after a cherubim in Madeline L'Engle's A Wind in the Door, the sequel to A Wrinkle in Time. It received honorable mention in the ASCAP 2013 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and I performed the first two movements at the 2013 NAfME National In-Service Conference.
A Farewell to Mandarin for piano duet. This piece was a finalist in the 2013 NJMEA Young Composers Competition, and was selected for the regional NAfME meeting in Hartford in 2013.
Organ Fantasy
Yanahhah for woodwind quartet. This piece received honorable mention in the 2012 NAfME Student Composers Contest.

Evening, a song without words for piano. This piece was a finalist in the 2012 NJMEA Young Composers Competition.
Bwoxett, for trumpet and piano.
Feature Suite, for violin, clarinet, and jazz piano trio. This suite received honorable mention in the ASCAP 2011 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.
1. The Move
2. The Hit
3. Forward Run
4. Fantasiac
5. Fun Time
6. Tenderly (viola instead of violin)
7. Razine

Rhythm, a ragtime piece for one piano, four hands.
The Romatissi for violin and piano.
Gallopadi for flute and piano. You might recognize the Sondheim tune "Not While I'm Around" in the middle section.
Gypsic Dance for piano.
Emenaresse for violin and piano. About enjoying boat rides, canoe rides, etc.
Jigary for violin, piano and bass.
Newlandze for one piano, four hands.
Venezuela for flute and piano.