Large Ensemble
Music for orchestra, wind ensemble, and choir.
Music by Kurt Mehlenbacher
Faded White: Overture for String Orchestra
This piece actually came out of an unexpected sound file from my undergrad. I was still using Finale 2000 at the time, which hardly had any playback capabilities worth noting, and I was given an assignment for an orchestration class I was in, taught by Dr. David Crumb, to write an etude for cello. The specifications for the assignment was to utilize three different types of techniques common t ...
Kýrie
Countless composers for a variety of different reasons have set the Kýrie text to music. My reason? I find that the text is so simple in nature, but holds such a powerful meaning to so many people that I could not help but create my own setting. This setting of the Kýrie is used more as a declamation of sorts, in that the text is asking for forgiveness, but is begging for it; in a sense, d ...
Now, Innumerable
This piece came out of a previously failed collaboration with Arizona poet Leah Soderberg. We were supposed to work together on a piece for string quartet and text for a concert held at the Phoenix Art Museum, but, due to a series of unfortunate events, we both ended up working on individual projects for the concert, where they were both presented.
Realizing that Leah is not only a very talented ...
Supernal Dragonfly
Supernal Dragonfly is the culmination of two years of study during my masters at Arizona State University. It is a single-movement work that captures the duality of personae within a single being by the means of contrasting articulations and uniformed harmonic motion. The first persona is a more agitated and twitchy creature, bouncing back and forth between its various surroundings. The se ...