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The Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra is a through-composed movement for full orchestra and clarinet solo. The principal concept of this composition is to explore the possibilities of the solo instrument while simultaneously fusing the...
From the beginning, this was intended to be a work for chorus and orchestra with a text suitable to some current events, particularly the recent war and new age we live in since September 11, 2001. As a child of a Vietnam veteran...
Convergence for Orchestra is a symphonic work based upon the juxtaposition of two dissimilar musical ideas and their development in a series of complex formal sections. The word convergence can imply a combination of two or more elements...
Stories for Orchestra is a suite for large orchestra cast in three diverse movements that are entitled "Cortazar, Lovecraft, and Song of the Valar." As the title implies, the work was conceived with programmatic elements in mind and...
San Jo for Orchestra is a large orchestra work in three movements with a prologue, played without break, approximately twelve minutes in duration. The concept of this composition is the exploration of Korean folk music within the Western...
For a long time I wanted to compose a concerto for a single percussionist and ensemble. My main motivation was educational: I had not done it before and I wanted to explore the percussion world. I chose chamber orchestra for practical...
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was written in response to my research involving Czech composers Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krasa, Pavel Haas, and Gideon Klein and their connection with the Holocaust. During my studies I traced these...
The concept of this requiem is to combine the original text setting of the Missa pro defunctis (the Ordinarium ) with appropriate excerpts of a dream and the last letters of Cato Bontjes van Beek, a young German woman executed by the...
Illusions: Three Songs for Baritone and Ensemble (2004) is a set of three songs based on the poetry of Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The piece is scored for clarinet, violin, horn, baritone, piano, and two percussionists. Each...
Carnival of Souls is a work in three movements with a brief prelude, played without break, approximately eighteen minutes in duration. It is scored for conventional wind band with added low strings, harps, and electronics. The three...
The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is a three-movement work for small orchestra and piano solo. Typical of the genre, the movements are arranged by tempo in a fast-slow-fast configuration. The overarching concept of the piece is a...
Road to Damascus for Piano and Orchestra is based on the story of the Apostle Paul's repentance and conversion to Christianity. This dramatic event is one of the most inspirational in the New Testament. Also, through this momentous story...
Two Movements for Orchestra is scored for a medium-sized orchestra and consists of two contrasting movements that are played without pause. The first movement is marked Largo. It opens with an idea in the strings that is developed...
Shattered is a dramatic one-act opera based on an original libretto by the composer. It is a universal story about what hides behind the reality that people present to others. The opera involves only six characters, without a chorus, ...
Diptych for Chamber Orchestra was conceived as a two-part work. As an item, a diptych consists of two panels hinged together; in similar fashion, the movements of this work, though contrary in overall character, are related as part of...
My dissertation, DahnGoon for orchestra, is for a relatively small-size orchestra with a harp and a quite extended percussion group. The title of the piece is adopted from well-known Korean traditional myth, DahnGoon. This myth tells us...
Seeds of Hope, written for nay (Middle Eastern flute), oud (Middle Eastern lute), and western orchestra, is an attempt at synthesizing two different musical traditions into a single cohesive work. The musical traditions that are...
Desist is a ten minute work for orchestra. The instrumentation of the work is for a fairly standard orchestra: two flutes, two oboes, two Bb clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three C trumpets, two tenor trombones, bass...
Symphony No. 1 was inspired by the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Bela Bartok, and Igor Stravinsky. It is a programmatic work that reflects the confrontation between positive and negative energies which dominate human existence. Although...
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