Texas UIL Bassoon Solo Class 1

Colored Stones tells the story of three stones: smoky quartz, lapis lazuli, and tiger's eye. Some cultures and spiritual practices believe these stones have powerful qualities such as the ability

Flayed is a composer's equivalent of a free improvisation on a few motives. While the overall structure of the piece is a tidy A-B-A form, the individual phrases are often irregular or elided and

The Native American ghost dance is part of a religious ceremony for the regeneration of the earth and the restoration of the earth's caretakers to their former life. The religion experienced its fullest and

When I first started thinking about In Malaysia (sometime in April 2015), I immediately heard a bassoon melody playing in my mind that grew into a larger piece of music that painted my memories

Contents: Two Sketches (Siennicki); Chanson Triste (Tchaikovsky); Arioso and Humoreske (Weissenborn); Three Baroque Dances (de Boismortier); Sonata No. 5

These six one-minute pieces were each originally written for another instrument and were adapted in 2014 for bassoon. 

1. Chesapeake Gambol

2. Peregrination

3. Sunlight on

Winner of the 2018 Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition. Required work for the 2019 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition. Spring Fever was composed in the spring of 2017, following my recent