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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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Ashes of Life
A mentor once told me, “You don’t have to change the world, you just have to make your corner of it a better place.” For years I have tried to do this through my own music, but sometimes I struggle. Sometimes the words don’t fit or the music doesn’t motivate me. Sometimes I even question…
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Autumn
Autumn is a chamber work for soprano, clarinet, and piano, originally composed for Danielle Harrington, Anthony Orr, and Timothy Sanchez. TEXT: The thistledown’s flying, though the winds are all still, On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill, The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot; Through stones past the counting…
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All the things we can say with no words
Created in collaboration with choreographer Asiyah Martin, this dance score explores non-verbal communication both visually and aurally. The fixed media “back-track” intertwines the pre-recorded piano/electronics with the live, amplified piano. Dancers: Asiyah Martin & Nayla Mireles