2024

What do you know, who knew?

Soprano & piano (5 minutes); Soprano & string quartet (5 minutes)

This piece is the first in a new series of songs, written for my father’s memory. The song cycle has two versions: soprano & piano and soprano & string quartet.

2023

Moon to Dust

viola (6 minutes)

This piece takes inspiration from two Dvorak melodies: Song to the Moon from his popular opera, Rusalka, and O Grant Me in the Dust to Fall, from the oratorio, St. Ludmila. It quotes both pieces and then develops unique variations of each, at times melding the two together. It also draws upon the use of chromatic mediants, a technique most beloved by Dvorak, to introduce new tonal colors. The title draws inspiration from the aforementioned works, and like the music, is an amalgam of both.

Songs for Salem

soprano, piano, euphonium (20 minutes)

A set of four songs setting my favorite historical epitaphs from my favorite graves in Salem, MA, where I lived for nearly two years and where I worked as a tour guide, exploring history and ghost stories.

Discretio Spirituum

string quartet [Performed]

[As Composer in Residence for UMKC’s Fellowship String Quartet]

Premiered May 15, 2023, Second Presbyterian Church; Kansas City, MO]

Soliloquy Fantastique

erhu, electric guitar, harpsichord, violin [Performed]

[Premiered April 2023, UMKC; Kansas City, MO]

2022

Songs of Juana Borrero (Canciones de Juana Borrero)

voice, piano, cello, electronics [Performed]

[Stephanie Susberich, voice; John McDonald, piano; Emmanuel Feldman, cello. Church of the Immaculate Conception. Salem, MA. May 3, 2022]

2021

Aphrodite

flute and oboe [Performed]

[Eli Ferguson, flute and Hassan Anderson, oboe. As Composer Fellow, The Etchings Festival, Northampton, MA. Aug. 19, 2021]

Lo Imposíble

voice and electronics [Performed]

[Stephanie Susberich, voice. 1:2:1 with Nick Photinos. May 30, 2021. Web]

Madame Beatrice Calls for Tea

string quartet [Performed]

[Sheffield Chamber Players: Sasha Callahan, violin; Leo Eguchi, cello; Megumi Stohs Lewis, violin; Alexander Vavilov, viola. Kareem Roustom’s Orchestration Class. Tufts University. Medford, MA. March, 2021. Web]

ode to woman

harp [Performed]

[Franziska Huhn, harp. Kareem Roustom’s Orchestration Class. Tufts University. Medford, MA. May, 2021. Web]

Trece Tamales

piano, Thirteen Tamales: Carnitas; Chorizo; Elote; Nopal; Dulce; Sencillo; Chiles; Pollo; Frijoles; Coco; Queso; Uva Pasa; Calabasa [Performed]

[John McDonald, piano. Tufts Composers New Sounds Now. Distler Hall. Tufts University. Medford, MA. Feb. 18, 2020; April 29, 2021]

Wind Demons

bassoon, english horn, alto flute, clarinet, horn, flute [Performed]

Babael, Keeper of the Graves

bassoon [Performed]

[Sam Childers, bassoon. Kareem Roustom’s Orchestration Class. Tufts University. Medford, MA. April 2021. Web]

Balberith, Prince of Dying

English horn [Performed]

[Elizabeth England, english horn. Kareem Roustom’s Orchestration Class. Tufts University. Medford, MA. April, 2021. Web]

lucifer

alto flute [Performed]

[Ashely Addington. Tufts University. August 2020. Web]

Ronwe, Demon of knowledge

clarinet [Performed]

[Juliet, Lai, clarinet. Kareem Roustom’s Orchestration Class. Tufts University. Medford, MA. April, 2021. Web]

Rosier, demon of love

horn [Performed]

[Anne Howarth, horn. Kareem Roustom’s Orchestration Class. Tufts University. Medford, MA. April, 2021. Web]

unsere, demoness of fertility

flute [Performed]

[Ona Jonaityte, flute. Kareem Roustom’s Orchestration Class. Tufts University. Medford, MA. April, 2021. Web]

2020

a cloak, a cluster, a casing

flute, guitar, harp [Performed]

[Performed by Members of International Contemporary Ensemble for the 2020 Connecticut SummerFest: Nuiko Wadden, harp; Alice Teyssier, flute; Daniel Lippel, guitar]

Apolo (2)

voice and piano [Performed]

En La Terraza

voice and piano [Performed]

Cantares

voice and piano [Performed]

Vibraciones

voice and piano [Performed]

Lucifer

alto flute [Performed]

2019

Fuera de Tiempo

two percussionists: vibraphone, marimba, tam-tam, wind-chimes, water bowls, concert bass drum [Performed]

Incantación Nmr. 1

voice and piano [Performed]

Íntima

voice and piano [Performed]

La Hielera

chamber opera: four-five singers and piano [Performed]

[Longy School of Music]

Por Que De Mis Sueños, Por Que Despertarme?

voice and piano [Performed]

Secret Sympathy

marimba and bass clarinet [Performed]

Sister Death

clarinet in B-flat and trombone [Performed]

Trés Tamales

Chorizo, Carnitas, Elóte; piano [Performed]

TRUTH is…

open ensemble, co-written with Quinn Gutman [Performed]

2018

could cling your gentle tendrils

cello and bass clarinet [Performed]

Exquisite

piano [Performed]

Four Hundred Years

piano [coached]

The Golem

piano, cello, and violin [Performed]

It’s Not That I Don’t Love You

two speakers, violin, and piano [Performed]

Medicine for 45

tubular bells and piano [coached]

The Origin of Life

string orchestra [Performed]

Phantasmagoria

violin, alto sax, piano [Performed]

Philosophy

voice and piano [Performed]

Sol Poniente

voice and piano [Performed]

Woodscrossing

oboe, cello, piano [Performed]

[Won the Radius Ensemble’s Eighth Annual Pappalardo Composition Competition; Premiered by Radius Ensemble; Longy’s Pickman Hall. Cambridge, MA. March 9, 2019]

2017

Amargura

voice and piano [Performed]

Dormiveglia

horn, english horn, viola [Performed]

La Evocación

voice and piano [Performed]

2016

Mourning Doves

flute and tuba [Performed]

Última Rima

voice and piano [Performed]

Atonal Duet

flute and violin [coached]

Atonal Trio

flute, english horn, violin [coached]

Hungarian Gypsy Scale

flute and tuba [coached]

Hymn to the Sun Variations

piano [coached]

Octatonic Duo

harp and string ensemble [coached]

Pentatonic Trio

flute, oboe, and harp [coached]

Rondo for Harp

harp [coached]