Solo
Guitar
Arboretum (2023)
Arboretum is a four movement suite exploring musical Americanisms.
Golden Larch is infused with a Copeland-esque energy.
White Pine evokes the sentimentality of a snow-blanketed winter landscape during the Christmas season.
Red Cedar features lush arpeggio-driven sonorities with melodies that dissolve as quickly as they emerge.
Blue Spruce branches out stylistically and is rooted in a light-hearted funk groove.
Driftwood (2022)
Driftwood takes inspiration from Poem on his birthday by Dylan Thomas. I was 35 years old and reflecting on life and the passage of time when I composed this piece.
This sandgrain day in the bent bay's grave
He celebrates and spurns
His driftwood thirty-fifth wind turned age;
Herons spire and spear.
- Dylan Thomas (from Poem on his birthday)
Fair Winds and Following Seas (2022)
Fair Winds and Following Seas is a solemn farewell that acknowledges loss while anticipating newness. It was composed after the passing of a loved one, in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, and is dedicated to "the departed".
let me square the yards, while we may, old man,
and make a fair wind of it homewards,
to go on a better voyage than this.
- Herman Melville (from Moby Dick)
Firstborn of the Dead (2022)
i. The Garden
ii. The Curse
iii. The Promise
Firstborn of the Dead is a piece with religious themes inspired by my time as a church Music Director/Pastor.
The Garden is a celebration of innocence, naivety, and peacefulness.
The Curse is about the grief, frustration and fear that accompany undesired consequences.
The Promise provides reassurance and hope but is not a return to innocence. Consequence is fulfilled rather than removed.
Ribbon Creek (2021)
Over The Pacific (2021)
Puppy Dance (2012)
Harp
A Curious Fantasy (2010)
Piano
Dreaming of Trout (2022)
Ukulele
Ochotona Princeps (2022)
Small Ensemble
Mo Shuile Togam Suas (2021) for 4 guitars
An Ocean In The Sky (2021) for piano, acoustic guitar & classical guitar
Scarlet Ribbon (2020) for acoustic guitar & classical guitar
Palm Trees and Crocodiles (2012) for 2 guitars
Vocal
Pater Noster (Miserere Nobis) (2011) for SATB & organ