Poem for Mezzo-soprano and Chamber Orchestra
This is the last minute or so of my Master’s thesis. Unfortunately, the rights to the words are still pending, so to avoid copyright infringement I’ve uploaded the conclusion of the piece when the mezzo isn’t singing. This is a reading session featuring the UW Chamber Orchestra, Jim Smith conducting.
This is an excerpt of the first minute or so of my latest song. I’m working on a an entire cycle called Aubades, and this song will be the fourth and last song of the set. The words are by Traci Brimhall, a fellow UW student of the Creative Writing Department. The recording features Jennifer Lien singing with Vince Fuh on piano.
(Credit Line: “Aubade with a Broken Neck” by Traci Brimhall, copyright 2008 by Traci Brimhall. Used by permission of the author.)
Music for Cello and Percussion
For my DMA preliminary exam, I wrote this little 5-minute work in 24 hours. The recording features Taylor Skiff on cello and Martha Saywell on piano. This is an excerpt of the first minute of the piece.
Excerpt from Symphony for Orchestra
This is an excerpt of my dissertation composition, the UW Symphony reading with Ching-Chun Lai conducting. I’m not sure if this bit will actually make it into the final work, but the excerpt will at least give listeners an idea the direction of the music.
For mezzo and piano, this is a setting of George Oppen’s poem of the same name. Mezzo Hannah Sartori and pianist Stacey Barelos feature in this excerpt of the very beginning of the song.
(Credit Line: “Seated Man” by George Oppen, from New Collected Poems, copyright 1965 by George Oppen. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.)
In 2007 I wrote incidental and vocal music for Harlan Chambers’s play The Interrupted Dream, performed at the University of Minnesota’s Xperimental Theatre. The incidental music features violinist Matthew Pickart, cellist Laura Ewing, and pianist David Sytkowski. Actor/singer David Wilson-Brown features in the excerpt from the vocal music. These aren’t recordings of the staged premiere, rather an unstaged version in Madison with different performers some months afterward.
This is an excerpt of the beginning of the second movement of this three-movement work, featuring the read trio of the same name: oboist Laura Medisky, clarinetist Lesley Hughes, and bassoonist David Wells.
This is the entire second movement. The recording features Julie Page.
