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This Nocturne for Horn Trio is a short piece based on a simple melody that I sang to myself one night on a midnight walk in the winter. After that, it lived in the back of my mind for almost a year, so I finally decided to realize it. The piece's aesthetic identity is mostly inspired by past pieces in the nocturne genre, while the process of motivic development that happens throughout the piece is influenced by Johannes Brahms' famous Trio in E-flat Major for Violin, Horn, and Piano.

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Six Mycological Miniatures is a set of six short character pieces each written based on a different fungus. The first movement is based on poison fire coral, a highly toxic fungus native to Japan and Korea. In order to reflect the danger of this fungus as well as its bright color, the first movement is unpredictable, uneven, and played at breakneck speed. The second movement portrays the luminescent panellus. This fungus looks ordinary during the day, but at night it glows bright green. This movement employs the acoustic scale and the natural seventh partial on the horn to depict this fungus's otherworldly but organic quality. The third movement is based on the button mushroom. The button mushroom is one of the most commonly found mushrooms in the world, and is cultivated and eaten by many cultures. There is just something cute about button mushrooms, and this awkward dance movement seeks to portray that quality. The fourth movement depicts the zombie-ant fungus. This fungus infects ants, and kills them from the inside over the course of a few days. In its final stages, the fungus bursts from the ant's head and releases spores into the air. The mindless trudging of the infected ant is portrayed by the bassoon's insistent quarter notes, while its internal panic is depicted by the anguished lines played by the flute and oboe. The fifth movement is based on the common puffball. This adorable fungus is represented by a jaunty 6/8 dance, which includes mischievous interruptions from the oboe and horn. The sixth and final movement depicts the "humongous fungus." This fungus is thought to be the largest living organism on Earth, taking up 3.7 square miles of land in Oregon. Its vastness is portrayed by soaring runs in the clarinet and flute and open fifths in the horn and bassoon.

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I wrote Keriah in 2023 in memory of Rabbi Richard Ruth, who was one of my most important mentors in high school. He was a kind and soft-spoken man, but he always had a clever sense of humor and a fun-loving spirit. He loved good music and good food. He passed away in 2023 while I was away at school, and I was not able to attend his funeral. I wrote this piece in an attempt to obtain some closure. "Keriah" is a Jewish tradition, in which one tears their garments after the loss of somebody close to them. This tradition is meant to represent the tear in your heart that comes from loss. The slow and mournful sections that bookend the piece represent grief and sorrow, while the lively and exuberant middle section represent Rabbi Richard's fun-loving nature.

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Inclinado en las Tardes is a setting of a Pablo Neruda poem. It is a love poem from Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, a poetry collection he wrote as a young man. The poem invokes vivid imagery as a metaphor for desire and sensuality. The song seeks to emulate this imagery through colorful extended harmonies.

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Rapunzel at the window depicts the image of Rapunzel leaning out her tower window. This piece is not a programmatic work that follows the traditional story of Rapunzel. Instead, the piece depicts an impression of a moment, going through a range of emotions that Rapunzel might have felt, including loneliness, hope, frustration, and anger. The timbres, colors, and harmonies employed aim to portray the vibrant fairytale atmosphere along with the melancholic nature of Rapunzel’s situation.

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