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sleep forsakes me was written for LIGAMENT, an ensemble of soprano and double bass.
Instrumentation: Soprano and double bass
The text is from Charlotte Turner Smith's Sonnet LXXIV:
“Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,”
forsakes me, while the chill and sullen blast,
as my sad soul recalls its sorrows past,
seems like a summons bidding me prepare
for the last sleep of death. Murmuring I hear
the hollow wind around the ancient towers,
while night and silence reign; and cold and drear
the darkest gloom of middle winter lowers;
but wherefore fear existence such as mine,
to change for long and undisturb'd repose?
Ah! when this suffering being I resign
and o'er my miseries the tomb shall close,
by her, whose loss in anguish I deplore,
I shall be laid, and feel that loss no more!
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
harmonic retention was my thesis composition for my M.A. degree at the University of Iowa. It is for sinfonietta.
Instrumentation: Sinfonietta
reflections is scored for viola and live electronics, and is scheduled to be premiered in February 2025.
Instrumentation: Viola, live electronics
I wrote Montage for the 2023-2024 Jack Quartet residency at the University of Iowa. It was read in December 2023, and performed in the following spring semester.
Instrumentation: String quartet
Western Jackdaw was written for the 24+24 Fall 2024 event at the University of Iowa School of Music, where composers had 24 hours to write for assigned instruments, and performers had 24 hours to learn the piece.
Instrumentation: Clarinet
Aves volantes is written for and dedicated to Angela Heyward, a fellow undergraduate student at UMBC. It is for one performer, but the clarinetist requires a timpani to play into for resonance.
Instrumentation: Clarinet (with timpani)
erudition I was written for Patrick Crossland, one of my undergraduate professors at UMBC. He premiered it in the fall of 2022 at the Livewire contemporary music festival hosted by the UMBC Department of Music.
Instrumentation: Trombone, SuperCollider
Windscapes is written for Pierrot ensemble plus percussion.
Instrumentation: Flute (doubling Piccolo), Clarinet (doubling Bass Clarinet), Percussion (Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Temple Blocks, Tam-Tam, Suspended Cymbal), Piano, Violin, Cello
Iridescent Passages is written for woodwind trio.
Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet
Glow was written for the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Nell Flanders.
Instrumentation: Orchestra