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Growing Pains
Winner of the Nathan Davis Grand Prize in Composition in the 2025-2026 Daniel Thompson Memorial Competition for Young Composers. Commissioned by the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, Alex Canovas, artistic director. What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to grow? To move through time, experience life, and change? In this moment, what…
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Blood is Blood is Blood
Watch the livestream @ 3/30/26 5:00pm here! Blood is Blood is Blood is a documentary-oratorio for choir, flute, clarinet, piano, e. guitar, and double bass centered around unheard stories of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In collaboration with lyricist Katherine E. Ragodos, the project features newly written libretto intertwined with medical research and publications, quotes from the…
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Requiem for a Poisoned Earth
Requiem for a Poisoned Earth is an environmentally driven oratorio for orchestra and chorus, featuring four soloists and saxophone quartet. The work aims to educate audiences on the dangers of hazardous PFAS “forever chemicals.” Developed in the early 1950s, these chemicals have been released, buried, and dumped into almost every ecosystem worldwide. PFOA, a specific…
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Come, Close Your Eyes
Created in collaboration with lyricist Patrick Gillaspie, Come, Close Your Eyes is sung from the perspective of a chemical company that is knowingly poisoning people, enticing them to believe that nothing is wrong. This composition became the foundation for movements 12-14 of Requiem for a Poisoned Earth.