Category: Works

Driftless Valley Variations

2016 | for solo viola | 7’ The Driftless Area of the Midwestern United States is a small patch of the continent that the glaciers forgot to flatten. Lined with rolling hills and bluffs, carved[…]

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The Opheliad

2016 | for soprano and piano | 10’ Poor Ophelia! The doomed girl from Shakespeare’s Hamlet is beloved as a symbol in works from artists across many mediums and centuries, yet so often neglected as[…]

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Elementary

2016 | for symphony orchestra | 4’ With apologies to my extremely supportive parents, it is just barely an exaggeration to say that I was raised by the symphony orchestra. As a teenager, I spent[…]

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tu flos es

2016 | for solo double bass, three voices, and continuo | 6’ tu flos es is a concert solo suspended in social commentary, presenting the solo double bassist as a narrative protagonist operating within a[…]

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