Composition
Works for Large Ensemble
Cryptids (Concert Band)
A cryptid is a creature or plant whose existence has been suggested but not discovered or documented by the scientific community. Cryptids often appear in folklore and mythology, leading to stories and unfounded belief about their existence. This three-movement was a project for an orchestration class I took in 2014. It is six minutes in length. Movements include: Big Foot, Loch Ness, and Abominable Snow Monster. Premiered in Fall of 2014 by the BYU Symphonic Band. Winner of the Winter 2017 CCM Composers Competition.
Dreamscape (Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra)
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra. Dreamscape is a four movement work (20-22 minutes in length) that takes the listener through four different dreams. The concerto was commissioned by William D, and Lois W. Johnson, and premiered by Jeralee Johnson and students at the Boston Conservatory for her Master’s Thesis project in February 2014. Nancy Ambrose King performed Dreamscape with the Brigham Young University Chamber Orchestra in December of 2014, and at IDRS in 2016.
Changing Faces (Symphony Orchestra)
Every person wears so many different faces in a lifetime, or even in a single day. We wear the game face, the poker face, or the straight face. Sometimes how we feel is “written all over their face,” sometimes we fall on our face, and sometimes we face our fears. Because we are experiencing the myriad of emotions that is life, we must always be changing faces.
In Changing Faces, a single phrase wears different faces in each of the following movements:
I. Fresh Face
II. Face Lift!
III. Blue in the Face
IV. Face the Music
V. Face Off
Each movement is based on the same descending fourth and second interval motive, yet the context and delivery change as if to signify our own changing states of mind. Changing Faces depicts one of the many beautiful aspects of being a human being: the ability to experience and express the full spectrum of emotions.
Alone (Concerto for Cello and Orchestra)
Alone concerto for cello and orchestra was composed in 2020. I was the recipient of an International Barlow Foundation award to compose a concerto for cellist Andres Diaz and the Richmond (IN) Symphony Orchestra. The work was premiered in April 2022.
Tlapalli, Tlahuilli (concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon soloists and orchestra)
Tlapalli, Tlahuilli (estimated completion November 2020) was commissioned by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO). The work tells the story of how the world received its color. Tlapalli, Tlahuilli was premiered in February 2021 by ROCO.