Coming up soon in these next couple of months, we’ll be recording the epic Fantasy for Oboe/English Horn Soloist and Chamber Orchestra, “Intrepid“! It will be an amazing compliment to the Leviathan E-Violin Concerto on the upcoming album! <3 To…
#NewTuneThursday: Greek Dance
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! “Greek Dance” is one of my earliest pieces; I believe this is one of those tunes I wrote while sitting on the bus during my tour years, like “Face in the Moonlight“… Composed in 2002, this charming…
#NewTuneThursday: The Reluctant Carnie
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! This piano miniature was composed just last year, in 2017. I originally wrote it as part of a larger set of background music for a bingo game app developer. While the rest of the album consists of…
#NewTuneThursday: Madrigal, for Orchestra
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! A madrigal, popular in the Renaissance and early Baroque, may be defined as a secular, polyphonic partsong, a through-composed work attempting to express the emotion contained within each line of a poem on which it is based.…
#NewTuneThursday: “I Know What Death Sounds Like” from Music for The Book of I
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! “You’re not really listening. Can you hear the angular melodic twists?” “That’s what death sounds like, I know… It’s like a leitmotif; it keeps coming back to my mind.” This track from Music for The Book of…
#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: Leviathan of the Ancient Deep
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! Leviathan of the Ancient Deep holds such a dear place in my heart! <3 Written in 2008 as my graduate thesis, this work is a three-movement, 25-minute concerto for solo 6-string electric violin, backed up by orchestra,…
#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…
Watch the Live Debut of “Fever Pitch”
Last night violist Charlotte Van Houten debuted the unaccompanied solo I wrote for her — and it was just amaaaaaaazing!!! Enjoy this video I grabbed from the performance…and look forward to an official studio recording of it, with Charlotte again…
#NewTuneThursday: Of Roses and Lilies
Welcome to #NewTuneThursday! Our first new composition of the new year is a 2013 work for solo soprano, women’s choir, piano, and string orchestra, with english horn and soprano recorder. Completed in 2013, Of Roses and Lilies is “A Romantic…