Greetings! It has been some time since I shared anything new on this site. Composing and getting my music out there has absolutely taken a back seat during the pandemic. So much so that at this point, I’ve got nothing lined up, and I’m just trying to make it through to the relative calmness of summer 2022 where I’ll hopefully have more space to think and work. While I’m hoping this slow down in public creative output is temporary, I really don’t know what the future holds (musically speaking), and I’m surprised at how long it took me to get to what follows. All of that said, I’m really excited to share two new-ish pieces with you all which I just posted: Mercurial Shadows (for Gideon), for oboe and electronics, and Vox Siderum, for violin, cello, and piano.
Mercurial Shadows was commissioned by the amazing Ben Buergel, and was the very last gig I had prior to the pandemic shutting everything down. Ben played it on Feb 27th, 2020, at the Atlas Theater in DC on the Intersections Festival. I wrote it as a response to my middle child’s period of hearing loss.
You can read more about Mercurial Shadows (for Gideon) and have a listen here.
Vox Siderum was commissioned by the Maryland State Music Teachers Association for a premiere initially scheduled in the fall of 2021, but this got pushed back until December 2022 due to Covid. I wrote the piece for my friends I’ve met through Balance Campaign, and the commission was intended to be played at the MSMTA’s annual young composer event. It was amazing to meet these 16 young composers, all students in elementary through high school, who are extremely excited about writing music. Sandy Choi, Erin Snedicor, and Liz Hill gave a lovely rendering of the piece – I’m really happy to share the live recording of it, and hope we can do it again some time soon.
