Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! (Parts of this post were published three years ago.) The story behind “Butterfly Lullaby” is an interesting one! While I completed it in its present state in 2012, it actually existed long before that as a simple violin…
#NewTuneThursday: Counterpoint Invariable
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! I am fascinated by the lessons the study of counterpoint can teach us! Combining this love for the rules of counterpoint with my nature to set up systems of patterns and let them run (to see what…
#NewTuneThursday: The Oracle
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! Today’s tune for flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano is “An Experiment in Aleatorism & Formula” from 2016. Using 50 tarot cards to create the framework, there is both an element of chance (in that the process…
#NewTuneThursday: In the Forest (Amazing Grace)
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! This original work…creatively weaves the beloved Amazing Grace melody in and out of a second original tune titled “In the Forest,” evoking a meditative and melancholy sense of wandering and reflection, as if hidden from the outside…
#NewTuneThursday— Anima Mechanicae: Soul of the Machine
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! Today’s tune is another really special piece to me, with lots of good memories attached to it. ^_^ “Anima Mechanicae: Soul of the Machine” is a string quartet that I wrote in 2007, during my grad school…
#NewTuneThursday: Pegasus
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! This work for violin, guitar, and piano holds such a special place in my heart. <3 I originally finished writing it in 2006, my last year at Cal Poly Pomona. When I had first sketched out my…
The Music Nerds! #6 – Setting Weird Lyrics
Enjoy this latest educational video, describing my thought processes on how I approach setting asymmetrical text to music as I work on finishing my Bros. Grimm Song Cycle! Don’t forget you can check out the other videos in this series…
#NewTuneThursday: Aradia, La Bella Pellegrina
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! Today’s tune was composed in 2017 for my friend, violinist Payman Eliahoo, and his son, who (at the time) was a beginning clarinet student. As I was putting it together I built the entire work off of…
#NewTuneThursday: Solitude’s Hypocrisy
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! Today’s tune is our first foray into the works created for “Music for The Book of I“… Presenting “Solitude’s Hypocrisy”! Back in 2014, I was approached by author Jorge Armenteros to create a 50-minute album of “musical…
New Sheet Music for String Orchestra & New Merch!
Composed for Ryan M. Luévano and the Neue World Orchestra Project, the 2002 string quartet “Greek Dance” has found new life as a driving work for string orchestra!!! I’m so grateful to have been given the opportunity to revisit this old…