Compositions
Cañonazo 3 (for wasteLAnd ensemble) (2023)
For flute, violin, vibraphone, bass clarinet in Bb, trombone, cello, and piano with spatialized electronics, duration approx. 7 minutes. World premiere by wasteLAnd ensemble, conducted by Nicholas Deyoe, at UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater on May 21, 2023. The piece includes live processing and spatial electronics using a PD patch created by Rand Steiger for a course in conjunction with the ACTOR (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) Project.
An Eternalized Fragment in a Room (2022)
An Eternalized Fragment in a Room (2022), approx. 30 minutes. A three-movement piece written for Ned McGowan (contrabass flute/flute) and Bart de Vrees (percussion/found objects). Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for music composition at Brigham Young University, the piece takes inspiration from passages in Gabriel García Marquez’s Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude, English translation by Gregory Rabassa).
Ned McGowan and Bart de Vrees gave the world premiere at Splendor Amsterdam on April 12, 2022 during a concert entitled Eternalized Fragments in a Room, which also featured compositions by the performers as well as a free improvisation between the composer (piano) and the two performers.
La invasión de la noche (2019)
For mezzo-soprano, tenor, and viola, duration approx. 10 minutes. Text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.Premiered by Mariana Flores (mezzo), Miguel Zazueta (tenor), and Alex Taylor (viola) at UCSD 1st Year Composers Jury Concert, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, January 24, 2020.
Learning Suite (2018)
For jazz large ensemble, duration approx. 20 minutes. Written for BYU Synthesis as commissioned by the Barlow foundation. Premiered at Synthesis 50th Anniversary Concert, de Jong Concert Hall, BYU, Provo, UT, April 11, 2018. The International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers selected Learning Suite (2018) to be featured as part of the New Music Masterclass sessions at the 2019 International Jazz Composer’s Symposium, where the composer presented excerpts of the score and recording to a panel of highly acclaimed jazz musicians: Bill Frisell, Ron Miles, and Rufus Reid. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, May 16-18, 2019.