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
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
For Bassoon and Piano by Ulysses Kay. This one-movement piece was composed in 1941 while Kay was studying at Yale with Paul Hindemith. The Sonata for Bassoon and Piano has been unavailable for
The Sonata for Bassoon and Piano was composed in 2000 and is cast in three movements: Prologue, Elegy, and Riffs and Responses. The Sonata is for the most part a serious work that explores
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