Music for Wind Ensemble
Revelries
Composed in the summer of 2018 during the South Carolina Conductors Institute.
Revelries is an energetic 4-minute overture for Wind Band that draws on modal and brief moments of chromatic harmonies throughout the work.
The piece was recorded in a reading session with the Frost Wind Ensemble, myself conducting.
Fanfare for Wind Ensemble
Fanfare for Wind Ensemble was written in the summer of 2017 for the start of the Central California Youth Wind Ensemble's third season.
The work is dedicated to the Central California Youth Wind Ensemble and all of the great friends that have helped the ensemble build and develop over the last few years.
"Quel Guardo Il Cavaliere"
From Don Pasquale
Transcribed in 2017 for the Central California Youth Wind Ensemble and Soprano, Rachel Querreveld.
Norina's Aria, also known by the first line of the soprano "Quel guardo, il cavaliere", is a scene from Gaetano Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale written in 1842.
In the scene, Norina is reading a novel about love. After reading a section of the novel aloud, she begins to explain that she knows all the tricks of capturing a man's heart.
Winter Songbook
Started in 2016 for the Central California Youth Wind Ensemble (CCYWE).
The Winter Songbook is an ongoing project with the CCYWE. Movements are planned to be premiered in pairs or individually each subsequent winter cycle of the CCYWE. The Suite is written for a chamber wind ensemble, a maximum of 20 players.
I. Aurora Borealis
Premiered December 23rd, 2016.
The first movement is an aural landscape, painting the picture of the famous "Northern Lights" and has the simple purpose of capturing the grandness of the beautiful, natural event through music.
II. Howling Winds of of the Windy City
Premiered December 21st, 2019
Howling Winds of the Windy City was written about my first time attending the MidWest Band and Orchestra clinic in Chicago, IL, winter of 2016. The movement shares some material with the first movement of my Sonata for Flute and Piano, which was started on that trip.
III. Frost and Morning Dew
Premiered December 21st, 2019
The third movement, Frost and Morning Dew, is separated in two parts. The Frost begins with the percussion and the piano representing the thin layer of frozen dew that develops over the grass in winter mornings in the central valley of California. The second part, Morning Dew, depicts the sun coming out over that same frozen grass and the fog in the crisp winter morning air.
*IV. Shimmering Lights of the Big Apple
Sjunkhatten Planes
Composed in 2016.
Sjunkhatten Plains was written for a reading session with the Frost Wind Ensemble at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music.
The piece is highly influenced by the music of ancient northern European and Scandinavian civilizations. The tone poem is intended to reflect the mountainous fjords of the north, the drums and war chants of vikings, and the intimate ritual music of the iron age instrument, the Carnyx (reflected in the bass flute solo).
* Work in Progress