Here you can find pieces that have been performed and recorded, organized from newest to oldest.
Bitter Ends
Bitter Ends is a piece for four hands on the piano, originally written for the ZOFO Piano Duet. The first movement uses several inside the piano techniques in order to create
As Close to Peace as You Can Get
As Close to Peace as You Can Get is a piece for solo violin originally written for Maximilian Haft. It focuses on two types of sections that trade back and forth. One is soft, gentle, the pitches
Drop/Lift – for solo violin
I began writing Drop/Lift in 2016 while I lived in Vienna. At the time I was incredibly inspired by Bartok and Ligeti, and so the original title of the piece
Everything Just Clicked into Place – for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello, and woodblock
Everything Just Clicked Into Place… is a lightly programmatic piece written for the Empyrean Ensemble. The piece itself focuses largely on timbral movement, passing notes quickly between instruments. The sounds themselves are meant to evoke
They Lived. – for mezzo soprano and electronics
Text by Carl Sandburg: Why did he write to her, “I can’t live without you”? And why did she write to him, “I can’t live without you”? For he went
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Rude Gestures – for three percussionists
Rude Gestures began as a series of inside-the-piano improvisations which I compiled in my first quarter at UC Davis. The different improvisations helped me to build a vocabulary of different sounds that
Volatilis I – for full orchestra
Volatilis I started as an idea to write a piece for a large ensemble that could be played by high school or even middle school groups by relying on the talent
Sputter – For Solo Saxophone
Sputter is a piece for solo saxophone, first premiered at my senior recital at the end of my undergraduate degree. It has a very light program, focusing on the idea that
Rain – For Five Musicians
Rain is a chance piece for five musicians that is explicit in it movement between rhythmic consonance and dissonance. In Rain the five musicians clap without defining any beat for
Deja Vu – For Clarinet and Tuba
Deja Vu and its sister piece Deja Vu (All Over Again) are written for clarinet and tuba and both pieces have a very unique form. Instead of a standard score,