Lake Tear of the CloudsWritten for string quartet and bassoon
Inspired by a tarn of the same name in the Adirondack Mountains, often cited as the top of the Hudson River. |
Year Composed
2024 Length approx. 12min |
Watermelons!
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Written for english horn, contrabassoon, vibraphone, piano, and viola
Inspired by the structure and pleochroism of Watermelon Tourmaline crystals. Pleochroism is when a substance shines a different color at different angles under polarized light. Habit: acicular, massive Luster: vitreous Cleavage: Indistinct Fracture: irregular, small conchoidal System: hexagonal Formula: A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z Colors: green edge and pink center, transparent between both colors |
Year Composed
2024 Length approx. 9min |
The Maturity in Warm Lights
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Written for english horn, bassoon, piano, and viola
Inspired by the structure and pleochroism of Zircon crystals; pleochroism is when a substance shines a different color at different angles under polarized light. Habit: tabular to prismatic Luster: adamantine Cleavage: indistinct Fracture: conchoidal to irregular System: tetragonal Formula: ZrSiO4 Colors: orangy-brown to orangy-red [weak pleochroism] |
Year Composed
2023 Length approx. 10min |
blue
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Written for mezzo-soprano, cello, and oboe
An exploration of deconstructed text, using a definition of Blue from Princeton University's online dictionary, WordNet. (adj) gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited (filled with melancholy and despondency) Princeton University "Blue." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010. |
Year Composed
2023 Length approx. 2-3min |
Windowpane
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Written for piano quintet
Inspired by blue and iridescent bird feathers, which are primarily colored by the structure of their melanin and keratin rather than pigment |
Year Composed
2022 Length approx. 6min |
New York Movie, 1939
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Written for string quartet
Inspired by Edward Hopper's New York Movie, painted in 1939 |
Year Composed
2022 Length approx. 4min |
My Neighbor's Flowers
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Written for flute, bass clarinet (Bb), viola, cello, acoustic guitar, 4 octave vibraphone
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Year Composed
2022 Length approx. 6min |
Lemonade
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Written for string quartet
An exploration of biological phenomena as the 'program' for programmatic work, detailing kleptoplasty, the digestion and use of nematocysts and latrunculin A, and reproduction as seen in various sea slugs and nudibranchs |
Year Composed
2021 Length approx. 5-6min |
Eagles
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Written for woodwind quintet
Inspired by the Cranbrook House and Gardens in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
Year Composed
2021 Length approx. 9min |