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Year composed: 2023

Duration: 12 minutes

Awarded the 2023 Brehm Prize in Choral Composition

Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLWuwc4h3PE

"Three Songs of Shattering" is a setting of an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem by the same name. The poem is in three parts, and it is set respectively in three short movements. Each movement deals with the idea of grief experienced in a different way. The first movement explores a nihilistic sadness where the grief is so overwhelming that all other meaning fades away. This movement uses breath sounds and silence to bring a sense of weight. The second movement evokes a nostalgic sadness for something that has been lost to the past. To convey this feeling I wrote a simple folk-song inspired tune to embody the idealized perception of memory. The third movement is the most emotionally complex, and explores feelings of regret and self-blame. I use the layered juxtaposition of major and minor triads to depict the layered feelings of self-involved sadness as well as the emotional complexity of healing from grief. The text uses natural imagery of changing seasons and the bloom and decay of flowers to symbolize this grief and how it affects us over time.

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Year composed: 2025

Duration: 3'30"

Score Video: https://youtu.be/V5Ce_t191c8?si=SAekez-Zkb7yAJPK&t=1847

Excerpt of III. Mountain Truths from Les glaces éternelles

“Lovely Forms” is a short work for unaccompanied six-part choir setting a fragment of William Wordsworth’s 1798 poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.” This piece is excerpted from a much larger work for sinfonietta, choir, and electronics titled Les glaces éternelles. The full piece explores the experience of sublimity in nature, especially when confronting extremes of scale. Glaciers and their slow, yet tangible impact on the land exemplify that which is much larger than us, while the tree-like branching of our own neurons reflects how we are part of nature, and the structures which occur in our bodies are reflected in the world around us. Situated at the very end of the piece, “Lovely Forms” acts as a denouement and offers a sobering warning that if the damaging effects of anthropogenic climate change continue, the majesty of glaciers could vanish entirely, persisting only in memory. Sonically, the piece emphasizes fricative consonants, extending the sounds within words and creating a sense of reverb which is embedded in the voices themselves.

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Year composed: 2023

Duration: 3 minutes

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“Friendship, Youth, and Wisdom” is a meditation on three and a half centuries of American choral music, tying a thread from William Billings, the “Father of American Choral Music,” to the present day. To accomplish this, I’ve woven together a quotation of Billing’s patriotic Revolutionary War anthem “Chester” with original music setting a text by 18th century English poet Edward Young. Billings set excerpts of Edward Young’s Night-Thoughts in “Easter Anthem,” and writing my piece gave me the opportunity to reinterpret one of Billings’s own sources of inspiration. This piece also displays a musical contrast between Billings’s style, a cornerstone of Sacred Harp and shape note singing, and a more contemporary choral idiom. This piece is celebratory, and encourages us to reflect on the time we spend with one another and cherish the valuable friendships we make. Dedicated to the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, this song embodies the spirit of long-lasting brotherhood and the wisdom that such friendships instill.

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Year composed: 2023

Duration: 3 minutes

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“Friendship, Youth, and Wisdom” is a meditation on three and a half centuries of American choral music, tying a thread from William Billings, the “Father of American Choral Music,” to the present day. To accomplish this, I’ve woven together a quotation of Billing’s patriotic Revolutionary War anthem “Chester” with original music setting a text by 18th century English poet Edward Young. Billings set excerpts of Edward Young’s Night-Thoughts in “Easter Anthem,” and writing my piece gave me the opportunity to reinterpret one of Billings’s own sources of inspiration. This piece also displays a musical contrast between Billings’s style, a cornerstone of Sacred Harp and shape note singing, and a more contemporary choral idiom. This piece is celebratory, and encourages us to reflect on the time we spend with one another and cherish the valuable friendships we make. Dedicated to the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, this song embodies the spirit of long-lasting brotherhood and the wisdom that such friendships instill.

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Year composed: 2022

Duration: 4 minutes

Setting a William Butler Yeats poem of the same name, “The Everlasting Voices” explores the tension between nature’s immensity and mankind's frailty, centering the sound of inhaled and exhaled breath.

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Year composed: 2021

Duration: 3 minutes

“The Cloths of Heaven” is a setting of the poem “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet of the modernist and symbolist movements. It is a very short, simple poem, with an enduring, sentimental message of love and devotion, written by Yeats for his long-time romantic interest and muse Maud Gonne (whom he never married despite proposing on three occasions). This piece explores a mood of longing, with the reaching melodic contours generating a sense of yearning and unmet desire. The piece undergoes harmonic explorations evocative of the text with a warm, enveloping sound.

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Year composed: 2021

Duration: 7 minutes

This dramatic piece sets Romeo's monologue from Act II scene ii of Romeo and Juliet, the iconic balcony scene. The choir embodies the character of Romeo, singing about Juliet's idealized beauty through his eyes. Accompanied by piano, clarinet, and cello, this piece delivers rich and energetic textures that are sure to captivate the ear of a fair maiden.

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Year composed: 2021

Duration: 7 minutes

This dramatic piece sets Romeo's monologue from Act II scene ii of Romeo and Juliet, the iconic balcony scene. The choir embodies the character of Romeo, singing about Juliet's idealized beauty through his eyes. Accompanied by piano, clarinet, and cello, this piece delivers rich and energetic textures that are sure to captivate the ear of a fair maiden.

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Year Composed: 2024

Duration: 12 minutes

Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_lyihNrKVc

“12,000 Years: Water and Stone” is inspired by the waterfalls and gorges in Watkins Glen State Park in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. The work is loosely programmatic, and illustrates the experience of walking along a hiking trail in the park, seeing waterfall after waterfall (the park boasts 19). I approached this pictorially, with the flute representing the shape of flowing water and the marimba embodying layers of sedimentary rock which the water courses over, around, and through. The gorge was carved out over the last 12,000 years by water eroding the rock and splitting it during annual freeze-thaw cycles, leaving breathtaking formations in the stone. This process of erosion was kickstarted by receding glaciers at the end of the last glacial period which left behind deep glacial valleys, becoming the Finger Lakes. Walking along the gorge is like traveling through time, with layers of rock millions of years old carved out in the blink of an eye, in geologic timescales. On a personal note, walking this trail brings me back to my childhood, spending countless summer days with my family hiking and marveling at the waterfalls.

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Year composed: 2024

Duration: 3 minutes

Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcoL37zyo4

Triplicate is a composition exploring different feels of triple meter. Written as an attainable challenge for a developing band, this piece provides the pedagogical opportunity to introduce concepts such as hemiola and polymeter to students. Students will learn to hear and play 3/4 and 6/8 stress patterns juxtaposed with one another. More complicated rhythmic concepts are reserved for the percussion section, who will be exposed to 3:2 and 4:3 polyrhythms.

This piece also explores contrast of style, with a sensitive chorale introduction leading into a high-energy, rhythmically vital race to the conclusion. Melodic motifs are passed around the ensemble, forming a consistent ostinato pattern that serves at the backbone of the piece.