ampersand press
choral works
the road not taken
SSAATTBB & electronics
or SSAATTBB a cappella
A new choral setting of the quintessential poem by Robert Frost. Premiered by Madison Choral Project under the baton of Albert Pinsonneault in December 2019.
le dernier poème
SATB with divisi
Le Dernier Poème is a setting of Robert Desnos' poem of the same name. The piece is dedicated to the victims of the November 13th 2015 attacks in Paris. It was workshopped by singers at Northwestern University in February 2016.
In May 2016, Le Dernier Poème won First Place at the Northwestern University Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition Creative Arts Festival.
shalom!
SATB with divisi
Shalom! is a new setting of two Hebrew folksongs. It was the winner of the 2014 Chanticleer Student Composer Competition and was premiered at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco in Spring 2015. Click here for more information.
there will be stars
SATB with divisi
There Will Be Stars was commissioned by the Northwestern University Renaissance Singers, who premiered it on their concert, Home, on May 25th, 2017. The piece is a setting of a beautiful Sara Teasdale poem about the percieved permanence of the stars in a world full of change.
we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself
for 6-voice mixed choral ensemble
we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself was written as my contribution for Northwestern University Choir’s Cor-tet Project, a series of pieces from young composers written to be performed for a six-voice socially-distanced virtual choral ensemble. The work is a meditation on a salient sound-byte from the COVID-19 stay at home order.