Sample composition title page Repertoire of original music since 2007. Recordings can be found on the Listen / Watch page. If you'd like to see a score, please don't hesitate to contact me.

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Works for one or two players
How to Cross the Susquehanna – 2010
A short, rapid, eccentric piece for organ, structured on the outline of a suspension bridge. 5 min.

Bessie's Song to Her Doll – 2009
An art song on a poem by Lewis Carroll. For soprano and piano. 5 min.

Fantasia for Viola and Piano – 2008
A duet in three movements, based on an original synthetic scale not reliant on octave equivelence. 15 min.

Works for chamber ensembles
Have We Forgotten? – 2009
Composed for a concert of new miniatures, Have We Forgotten is a fragmentary exploration of different divisions of a serial row. For chamber wind ensemble. 1.5 min.

her she me – 2008
A collaborative style study in postmodernism by three composers and three dancers. For prepared piano, piano, and dance. 18 min.

Incidental score: Sundays – 2008
The soundtrack to Sundays, a student film by film by Murat C. Bey. Sundays premiered in May of 2008. Music was recorded by students and conducted by the composer. For harp, viola, and violoncello. 11 min.

Sentinel – 2008
Written for the Yale Art Gallery's premiere of artwork-based student compositions, Sentinel accompanies Yale's section of the Babylonian Way, on display in the Swartwout Gallery. For bassoon, horn, violin, and double bass. 8 min.

Incidental score: Icarus – 2007
The soundtrack to Icarus, Edwin Sanchéz's play about the beauty of dreams and the ugliniess of reality. This is the play's first original score. It was composed for a production by the Yale Dramat and directed by Lian Walden (Yale College '09) in October 2007. Music was recorded by students and conducted by the composer. For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, harp, viola, and violoncello. 7 min.

Works for chorus
God's Grandeur – 2010
A setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins' famous sonnet. For SATB chorus and organ. 4 min.

Through Eden – 2008   Winner, 2008 Fenno Heath Award
A setting of Peter Salovey's closing speech at the Baccalaureate service of Yale College Commencement. For a cappella SATB chorus. 4 min.

Justorum animæ – 2007
The fifth movement from Words from Heaven and Earth (a cantata in progress). A violent, dogmatic setting of a sacred text, this philosophically charged piece is a keystone of the set. For a cappella SATB chorus. 4 min.

Works for large ensembles
The Mirror – May 2009
An extremely introspective piece, exploring structure, processes of development, harmonic language, and approach to composition. The Mirror is my senior thesis for my Music major at Yale. 15 min.

Works in progress
Cardinal Directions
Large single-movement work, originally intended for organ. 12 min.

[untitled work]
— for chamber winds in a concerto-grosso format. Inspired by the process of archeology, this piece involves the juxtaposition of modern language with traditional four-part chorale voicing — except with five voices. 7 min.

Words from Heaven and Earth
Six sacred motets, setting texts from the Latin Vulgate against texts from Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. For SATB a cappella chorus. 25 min. Movement V, "Justorum animæ," is completed — see above.

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