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2024 Spotify Wrapped – thank you for listening!

Thanks to all my listeners for checking out my newest album! 🩷🙏 

The album I produced this year (Long These Days) was a really special project for me because it combined my passion for composing vocal music with electric guitar and piano and it featured wonderful collaborations I had with soprano Olivia Yokers, bassist Norman Espinoza, and electric guitarist Tasos Peltekis. It also combines my varied stylistic interests (blends genres) and I wanted to create an album that featured art song connected with instrumental interludes (piano with electric guitar improvisation). 

I can’t wait to create more music and dive into many more new projects and collaborations to share with all of you 😊 

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All Rivers at Once – 2 clarinets

Performance of “All Rivers at Once” featuring Garrick Zoeter and Wojtek Komsta

Last week, clarinetist Garrick Zoeter sent me this wonderful live performance recording of my piece “All Rivers at Once” for two clarinets, featuring him and Wojtek Komsta. I wrote this version of the piece back in 2020 and was very delighted to see and listen to their performance last week on their faculty recital. They did an awesome job capturing the fun and adventurous atmosphere and loved to see them smiling and laughing at the end of it.  😊

This was inspired by a section of a Rumi poem of the same title:

What is the body? 

Endurance. 

What is love? 

Gratitude.

What is hidden in our chests? 

Laughter.

What else? 

Compassion. 

– Rumi

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Violin & Piano versions of three songs

I created violin and piano versions of three of my songs for my concert at Virginia Tech October 1, 2024.

Song of Flight – violin and piano version of my song from cycle, A Smile and a Sigh

Echo – violin and piano version of my song from cycle, A Smile and a Sigh

Night Song – violin and piano version of my song, Noche, from the song cycle, Cuatro Canciones de las Últimas Horas