Concert works
I am still relatively early in my concert career, but here are my current works. Use the contact form if you’d like to request parts or full scores.
The Sequence (2025)
for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
My first concert work, written for the chamber group Unheard-of//Ensemble. My ethos approaching this project was intentionally a “back to basics” approach. I set myself the goal of making a piece that was accessible with minimal modernist techniques or dissonance, but still having it be a musically worthwhile listen.
Essentially, I wanted to make “pop music” for the concert stage, incorporating elements of my favorite idioms of popular music like synthwave, chiptune, progressive rock, and 20th-century classical music. The work’s title and the movement names allude to the internal formatting of music files in some classic video games.
Apart from some sections that were unintentionally overly difficult, I’m really delighted with how it turned out – thanks so much to Unheard as well as my composition teaches James Diaz and Alan Hankers!
Live performance by Unheard-of//Ensemble (abridged)
MuseScore mockup with score (full piece)
Live reading by Vassar College Orchestra
MuseScore mockup with score
Rogue Planetoid (2026)
for orchestra
My second concert work, written for the Vassar College Orchestra. For this work, I intentionally dialed back the rock influences and went for a more fully “symphonic” sound with varied tempos and adventurous harmonies, while making a redoubled effort to make it easy to play; as someone who mostly writes music “in the box” (electronically on the computer) it was a interesting and fulfilling challenge.
I’m very proud of how this one turned out. Special thanks to my instructor Alan Hankers, the VC Orchestra, and my influences: Gustav Holst, Frank Zappa, Tim Follin, Józef Skrzek, and Stevie Wonder. I’m very happy with how I took those influences and combined them into something that was uniquely my own.