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"The Brightest Heaven" acts as both a setting of, and a commentary on, Shakespeares memorable lines from Henry V (O, for a muse of fire that would ascend...), giving this musical setting the ability of transitioning from external speech to internal thought. It balances these two functions and weaves them into one dramatic statement, set with piano accompaniment but in a singularly orchestral style.  Perfect for concerts combining women's and men's choruses into one mixed ensemble.

The Brightest Heaven

SATB Octavo

This celebratory anthem for Christmas Day evokes the festive spirit that is the culmination of the advent season.  The original incipit of Gregorian chant is preserved both in the cantor role and in the organ part, recalling the rich history of the Christmas celebration.

Puer Natus Est Nobis

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"The Ties Eternal" recalls Walt Whitmans moving text about venturing into the great unknowns of our universe. His five-part poem is likewise divided musically into distinct sections all performed attacca with the addition of instrumental prologue and epilogue movements to bookend the work. Scored for string quartet (two violins, two celli) and percussion.

The Ties Eternal

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It is undeniable that we humans are, as a species, outgrowing our small planet. As populations boom and technologies diversify, we are increasingly unable to run away from our problems. As a result, violencein civilized society is increasing at an alarming rate. How do we combat those that do harm to others, and more importantly, how do we convince our race as a whole that the problem cannot long be ignored? Dive into this original poem and its musical setting to explore more deeply this poignant and relevant issue.

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Phaethon's Ride is a tone poem depicting his ill-fated journey riding Helios' sun-chariot for a day and its inevitable, tragic end. In this work, musical form is structured on the temporal cycles that make up one 12-hour day from dawn to dusk. Mathematical relationships abound in this cerebral but aesthetically pleasing work.

Phaethon's Ride

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"Jerusalem" tells the story of a new world, one that is foretold in the book of Revelation to come when everything we know of heaven and earth has ceased to exist. It is not the Apocalypse, but its aftermath. Scored for strings, oboe, and continuo organ, this setting presents these words mainly as a commentary over its main depiction - that of a new heaven and a new earth we have yet to witness.

Jerusalem

Written for the composer's own wedding, April 1st, 2017, and designed to function as both a concert work in four movements and a programmatic piece tailored to fit seamlessly into a wedding ceremony. The four movements serve respectively as prelude, processional, meditation, and recessional. Scored for Cello Quintet (Violin, Violin, Viola, Cello, Cello).

Wedding Sonata

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A romantic piano solo for the moderate-level performer, spanning a variety of tonal themes and modern harmonies.  Perfect for lighter entertainment.

Piano Rhapsody

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What emotions does her countenance hide: joy, or perhaps mourning? This musical setting takes such mystery and presents Byron's words through contrasting ideas of romantic lyricism and fragmented trepidation, aided by a dramatic orchestral piano texture. The chorus melds sometimes indiscernibly between the foreground and background at it skirts among ideas of melody and texture.

She Walks in Beauty

"The Long Day Closes," originally set by Arthur Sullivan as a stunningly intimate part-song, here explores an entirely different side of the musical spectrum as a Neo-Renaissance motet, marrying strict counterpoint with a sense of programmaticism. The eight-part chorus functions both as antiphonal SATB ensembles and as one SSAATTBB entity, depending on the section and the idea. It is set in the same key as Sullivan's original, providing the unique opportunity of performing these works together - and in doing so, gaining a more thorough glimpse into Chorley's stirring words.

The Long Day Closes

Conceived as a approachable yet satisfying lyrical work, Crossroads explores colors and timbres that serve two main ideas. Programmatically these two ideas form the crossing represented in the work'’s title and take the listener on a journey reflective of the choices made as life progresses. The orchestration favors color and balance over practicality so there are less of the classic instrumental doublings and more opportunities for individual timbres to come forth hopefully providing valuable musicianship training for soloists.  Percussion is employed lightly and for good reason; these lines should strive to lie underneath the harmonic texture and percussionists may learn to identify and support the parts they accompany.

Crossroads

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Mixing ancient Latin movements of the Requiem Mass with poignant modern selections in English, this lyrical work is especially suited to All Saints' Day concerts.

Requiem

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This modern setting takes as inspiration the earliest roots of the Te Deum: the chant itself. Though chant has been quoted often in historical settings, here it is kept as a primary and inescapable base upon which all the orchestral motives are built and developed. Because this text took a new lingual turn on the Latin source, the music in this setting follows the idea in how the voices interact with the orchestra. The chorus sings in a more freely composed, modern style that contrasts with the orchestra's sometimes medieval nature. In this way the new is set against the old in a light that shows the virtues of each, and spans the thousand-year-old history of this storied text.

World Without End (Chamber Version)

A free-form sonata for solo piano, resembling a rhapsody in its roaming exploration of themes. As a light tone poem on the broad theme of winter, it employs a mixture of brittle harmonies and romantic phrasings to depict a placid scene of winterof dead leaves scattered across a frozen, slumbering earth; the last remnants of the old year.

The Last Leaves of Winter

World Without End

Though the "Te Deum" chant has been quoted often in historical settings of the text, here it is kept as a primary and inescapable base upon which all the instrumental motives are built and developed.  The voices, by contrast, take the more recent English translation of the "Te Deum" text that originated in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. In this way the new is set against the old in a light that shows the virtues of each, and spans the thousand-year-old history of this storied text.

Written in the style of a Gregorian chant, this original chant is completely preserved in one voice while the other lines work in harmony. This work is written in a straight style, intended to be 'chanted' by the choir just as church figures have interpreted and performed chants from the missals during worship. It is a quiet and simple statement of joy to celebrate the miracle of Christmas.

Christe Redemptor Omnium

"Easter Flowers, Easter Carols" takes four separate Easter texts and combines them into one collective poem, treated strophically in this bouyant musical setting.  The original excerpts were not limited to whole stanzas, but single lines were selected and interwoven to form this new text.  The resulting poem strives to represent some of the best all four of these historical poets have to say of the Easter season in a new, ecumenically appropriate fashion.  Can be performed by either 3-part treble choir or unison children's choir.

Easter Flowers, Easter Carols

SSA Octavo

An excerpted movement from Requiem (2010) for chorus and chamber orchestra, "As the Deer" sets selected texts from Psalm 42 in a placid, comforting landscape.  This setting has been reduced for chorus, organ, and oboe.  Also features a Soprano soloist.

As the Deer

"Sunrise Carol" sets an original poem styled after the romantic medieval ballades of Machaut and his contemporary composer-poets.  Set as a carol, strophic in form, the music harkens to a simpler era of composition, one favored in Medieval times when romance lived in the song itself, tailored to enrapture the listener. "Sunrise Carol" is a love song to nature, and to the feeling of rebirth upon witnessing the resplendence of daybreak.

Sunrise Carol

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