My recent senior recital featured much of my recent music for concert, including four world premieres! Those pieces aren’t listed below, so click the button for the entire recital video and program notes on each piece.

Protector_Lover (2023)

For Brass, Percussion and String Orchestra

Protector_Lover is a short orchestral work written for Irving Symphony Orchestra’s SMU-Composer-In-Residence program. It is the first piece programmed on the concert in the attached video.

“Near the beginning of the writing process for Protector_Lover, Maestro Guzman requested a piece with a “celebratory” tone. At least initially, I struggled to write anything. While I had plenty to celebrate, I was so preoccupied with stress and worry—my girlfriend was going through a tough time and I felt so ill-equipped to help—that it was hard to write anything positive, much less celebratory. After some soul searching, I resolved to focus on the positive feeling that were driving me to worry: love.

Protector_Lover embraces feelings of commitment and resolve; to do the best we can to help. There are two core elements: a brass fanfare that encloses a sweeter, soaring melody. They represent the protective instinct, and the love internal that drives it. The choice of brass, percussion, and strings was made to emphasize the contrast and unison of the loud and powerful elements against the soft and delicate.”

Diffusion (2021)

Online Electronic Chamber Work

Diffusion is a work written for a volunteer group of SMU Music students during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. All music was composed, recorded, and produced remotely, then premiered on the Spring 2021 Emerging Sounds concert.

AuSTIN SYMPHONY

Sarah and Ernest Butler Texas Young Composers Competition Winning Pieces

Skyline 75 (2020)

For Full Orchestra

Golden Hornet Chamber Works