Here’s the second video from the pieces I recorded a some years ago. Enjoy!
This is the first of two short pieces I recorded a couple of years ago. I wasn’t able to upload them onto YouTube with my dinosaur of a smartphone. Recently, I finally found a way, so now they are up for your viewing pleasure!
An oldie but a goodie.
I composed this short prelude during my first semester of grad school at Indiana University (Fall semester, 2014). Very proud of this one and it’s a go to for my programs!
In short, I took a bass line from a song by a rock band (which I will not give the name!) and wrote a melody over it for the opening measures. From there, it’s a rounded binary piece with four-bar phrases. Brouwer’s etudes were my main reference for composing the piece (again, mainly studying the number of bars in the phrases), but other inspirations were pooled together as well such as J.S. Bach and Barrios. There is a consistent campanella effect throughout the piece; campanella are a very beautiful effect on the guitar, in my opinion. That’s the piece in a nutshell! Enjoy!
My first lullaby for a string quartet! Despite its simplicity, I’m really proud with how this one turned out. Especially the middle section and how that material is tied into the ending. A big thanks to my sister for getting the quartet together and playing this!
The premiere of my first guitar duo! A HUGE thank you to my good friends Cassius Stein and Onur Alakavuklar for taking the time to learn and perform the piece. Aaaaassss well as write in fingerings for the duo as well….
The first performance of John Rutter’s song cycle: “Shadows,” with my good friend and baritone, Ross Coughanour. Just selections from the cycle, not the full thing….we never played the full song now that I think about it…meh, oh well!
And yes, that is a picture of the composer with his cat!
An excerpt from a trio of short pieces I composed: “Three Simple Pieces.” If you can guess why each one is subtitled “A,” “B,” and “C,” then I’ll dedicate the trio to you.