Here you can find examples of my music compositions - including audio, videos, and sheet music. This page is constantly being updated (and is not a complete representation of my current composition repertoire), so check back for more - and stay tuned! If the players do not load immediately, please refresh the webpage.
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Although I aim to compose music in the style of classical film soundtracks such as "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings," I also write many other genres of music, from soft pop to ragtime to classical avant-garde. Currently, I use multiple DAWs, including Pro Tools, Cubase, and Studio One, along with a variety of VSTs (including East West Sounds' Hollywood Orchestra libraries). I am also proficient in notation and transcription (I've used Finale but prefer Dorico).
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I've played piano and composed since I was very young. Under the tutelage of CSU Chico Professor Emeritus Dr. Robert Bowman, I studied classical music theory, composition, improvisation, and performance. I went on to study with Professor Peter Golub (Director, Sundance Film Music Program), and interned with the recording studio of John Swihart ("How I Met Your Mother", "Switched at Birth").
Inspired by the music of the films and 19th to 20th-century classical composers, "Stories from a Dream" is an ongoing set of original compositions for solo piano, with each piece encapsulating a feeling or brief story. As currently presented, this album was recorded at The Recording Place in Rocklin, CA.
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"Chapel of the Bells" is styled as an homage to Rachmaninov; its title is a nod to the fact that Rachmaninov often drew inspiration from the cathedral bells of eastern Europe.
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"The Carriage of Memory Lane" tells the story of a nostalgic carriage ride - the sound of horses' hooves, the distant echo of a caroling melody, the crisp cold and winter cheer of Christmastime.
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"Winter Leaves Footprints Wherever It Goes" is a cold night punctuated by the beginning of a snowstorm. The snow falls slowly at first, gentle as could be; yet soon it frenzies into a full-blown blizzard.
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"A Cosmos of Stars" is a lover's song and a journey through the stars: gentle, tranquil, and full of wonder.
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"Flight Beyond the End of Time" begins with the strokes of a clock, growing more frenetic with time; gradually, the music soars past the clock's rhythm, ultimately breaking free.
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"The Last Whispers of This Past" was composed during a particularly difficult time in my life. Rather than nostalgia, it conveys the sense of peace at finally growing past difficult memories.
SOON TO BE UPDATED.
Inspired by the music of 20- and 21st century modern classical composers, A Modern Fantasy in Four is a four-piece avant-garde study in modern classical piano music. This album was recorded at The Recording Place in Rocklin, CA.​
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"Pretty Riddles Tell Us Lies" is a bitonal avant-garde fantasia composed under the tutelage of Peter Golub (music director, Sundance Film Institute and professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music). It begins with sweeping flourishes and sinks into a lilting tango before finishing with a triumphant fortissimo.
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"Sleepers Will Safely Dream" is a study composed under the tutelage of Peter Golub (music director, Sundance Film Institute and professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music). It is part of the trilogy Sleepers Will Safely Dream/Caught in Infinite Unreality/Never to Wake Again. It is composed using a bass of arpeggios built in intervals of major seconds and perfect fourths, with a melody built on top in the treble.
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"Caught in Infinite Unreality" is a study composed under the tutelage of Peter Golub (music director, Sundance Film Institute and professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music). It is part of the trilogy Sleepers Will Safely Dream/Caught in Infinite Unreality/Never to Wake Again. It is composed in a 5/4 time signature using intervals of perfect fourths in both hands.
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"Never to Wake Again" is a study composed under the tutelage of Peter Golub (music director, Sundance Film Institute and professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music). It is part of the trilogy Sleepers Will Safely Dream/Caught in Infinite Unreality/Never to Wake Again. It is composed using fourth chords and polyphony/counterpoint between the two hands; it also ties the trilogy together with references to the melodies in Sleepers Will Safely Dream and Caught in Infinite Unreality.
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Created for - and inspired by - my own fantasy world, the "Myriad Worlds", "Melodies of the Myriad Worlds" includes music which canonically originates from one of the Myriad Worlds' many vibrant cultures.
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"The Katkillian" ​is a sweet lullaby sung by the tavern keep Lhuanja, displaced from her home. Alone in a strange city, she lusts for adventure and grieves for the past; her tavern, the Katkillian, is filled with memorabilia of her lost home. But no matter her sorrows, she keeps the Katkillian's doors thrown wide and its cellars stocked to the brim, ready to great any person who steps across the threshold in search of food, drink, or company.
Written for the UCLA Burke Center's World View podcast & documentary.
Composed while I was working on the theme for the World View podcast and documentary, "On the Precipice of Freedom" is a short opening fanfare that I hope to soon expand into a longer orchestral composition.