My Hands Are Lifting Up
This piece was commissioned by the Roger Wagner Choral Center at Cal State LA, and was premiered by the Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new affordable housing development in downtown Los Angeles. The lyrics were taken from different poems, essays, conversations and letters written by people...
Our Father, Vindicate
In May of 2009 Azusa Pacific University funded a multi-discipline project to generate new creative works on the subject of The Lord's Prayer. The project resulted in new commissioned compositions, new works of visual arts, and a series of scholarly lectures.
As part of that project, I was commissioned to write a new choral...
Sappho 31
This piece is a setting of the reconstructed poem from Sappho, Parchment 31, sometimes called the Poem of Jealousy. Sappho is watching another man woo her beloved, and she is jealous not of her attention to him (much), but of his ability to just sit calmly in her beloved’s presence, just sit! and not be...
Wexford Carol
Commissioned by Christ Community Church in Buena Park, this arrangement was first performed there in December of 2008 by an ensemble of guest artists. This piece was also selected as a featured work for the 2009 LA Composers Workshop.
Rhythm-a-ning
Rhythm-a-ning (excerpt) by Thelonious Monk Arranged for Piano Duet (6:30) February, 2007 View the Score Premiered by Joel Clifft and Michael A. Lee at the Faculty New Music recital at Azusa Pacific University in Spring of 2007.
Hymn Medley
An arrangement of classic hymns for 5-part pop vocal ensemble, recorded by BASIX and The Nashville String Machine Orchestra. This recording, which I also played piano and orchestrated string parts for, was my first studio recording experience.
As You Were Saying: