Joseph Vasinda – Composer – Teacher

Footprints – for jazz ensemble

Footprints was written for the Magela Herrera Afrocuban Quartet and represents one of my first forays into jazz music. Herrera

“Apocrypha III” is one movement from my dissertation work Psalms and Meditations. This movement was played by Warp Trio featuring

Frame No. 1 is a piece that I have performed with friends many times. Here I performed it with Devin

Under Cover of Night initially started as a tribute to “Under a Blanket of Blue” from the album Ella and

I started working on Hidden Gems when I was presenting the thesis for my dissertation. I wanted to write something that

Hope Left… is a piece for solo voice and electronics originally written for Stephanie Lamprea. Lamprea is a phenomenal collaborator and

Vapors is a group of miniatures for reed trio originally written for Keyed Kontraptions. Each miniature is meant to be

Bitter Ends is a piece for four hands on the piano, originally written for the ZOFO Piano Duet. The first movement

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

I began writing Drop/Lift in 2016 while I lived in Vienna. At the time I was incredibly inspired by Bartok