The first new work for 2019! Running at just over 4 minutes, this dramatic, challenging chamber work for solo viola and piano recounts the emotions that course through Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem, “The Raven,” with modern, neoromantic flair. As…
#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: “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…
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…
Fever Pitch, for Unaccompanied Viola
I cannot tell you how many violists have come up to me over the years, asking me for a feature solo for viola. Well, the wait is finally over!! It took the contagious enthusiasm of a sweet and talented violist…
Leviathan has a Cadenza
Hooray! I just finished writing my cadenza for Leviathan‘s 3rd movement! Funny story about that… When I first wrote this work for my Master’s degree thesis back in 2008, I had been working so much on the first two movements…
INTREPID: Fantasy for Oboe/English Horn Soloist
Announcing the completion of my latest work, INTREPID, a Fantasy for Oboe/English Horn Soloist and Chamber Ensemble – specially written for my talented friend, Terry Halvorson! I am so happy with the way this piece turned out, and I can’t…