COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR
This work, commissioned in 2013 by Schola Cantorum of Texas (Jerry McCoy, artistic director) as part of their 50th Anniversary season, is a setting of text fragments from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
Continue reading “Look Down, Fair Moon”This work was written for the Creekview High School A Cappella Choir (Carrollton, TX) – Tara Sikon, director and Brian Murray, associate director – for their performance at the 2013 Texas Music Educators Association Conference.
Continue reading “Little Star”Commissioned by the Highland Park High School Fine Arts Department for the 2014 Highlander Festival Choral Concert in recognition of HPISD’s Centennial Celebration.
Continue reading “The Music Makers”This work was commissioned in 2015 by the West Potomac High School Choral Department (Kye-Won Kopko, director), in honor of Ernest Johnson, a long-time director of the choral program.
Continue reading “After Me”The Taylor Festival Choir, a professional chamber choir based in Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned A Clear Midnight as a companion piece to one of my earlier works, On Meditation. In contrast to the text of On Meditation (from the Tao te Ching), which provides active instructions for entering a state of enlightened meditation, the subject in Walt Whitman’s A Clear Midnight makes a conscious decision to put the pen down, and let himself enter a “free flight into the wordless.” Continue reading “A Clear Midnight”
My only piece written without a commission or imminent performance, I wrote this setting while studying composition at LSU. The LSU A Cappella Choir subsequently performed this work. Continue reading “Bright Star”