VIVA
for Symphony Orchestra
Tampa Bay Symphony -Performance date Jan. 2022
Viva has been selected as one of four international finalists in Tampa Bay Symphony's 2021 Orchestral Composition Contest. The call was for works written in and inspired by this past year of pandemic. VIVA was conceived as a celebration of life in the midst of this harrowing Covid season. The work is characterized by a driving percussive heartbeat and vibrant brass. Driven, but joyous, It is a tribute to those who have fought so valiantly to keep us alive. A celebration of survival and hope, it is a musical encouragement to seize and savor each day!
A BIRTHDAY for Soprano, Volume 1
ECHO for Mezzo Soprano, Volume 2
Just released - Two new art songs featuring the poetry of Christina Rossetti in the new publication :
Modern Music for New Singers
21st Century American Art Songs
Edited by Dr. Robert Peavler, North Star Music, LLC
HEART REMEMBER DANCE
Gammaldans Suite (Four Movements) for Clarinet and Viola
2021 Upcoming performance by Domino Ensemble - TBA
This suite is based on impressions of the old-style “Gammeldans” tunes that musicians play in Scandinavian folk dance, where dancers in richly decorated folk costumes whirl and spin in paired patterns--a celebratory visual expression of communal rejoicing (something we all longed for this past year). This rendition of the fourth movement is performed by the Medina Covid Camerata.
WEB AND WINGS
for solo piano
2021 Winner of the Renée B. Fisher Composer Award
Sponsored by The Neighborhood Music School
Web and Wings was written as a performance piece for the Renée B. Fisher Young Pianists Competition. As the winning composition, it was featured as the commissioned contemporary competition piece for Elementary/Middle School students to learn in the 2021 solo piano competition. ( featured at 1:55)