This piece is what I consider to be the embodiment of miracles.  It is structured around various events that happen on a daily basis, and on beliefs that people structure their entire lives around.  I will refer to these miracles as the sun, time, and divine gifts. The sun is the center of the first movement And the Clouds Part, which is built on an ascending scale in the flute and a series of s ...

This piece stems from an event that I observed early in my first term of graduate school. I was riding my bike to school when all of the sudden, two very large pigeons ran into each other in mid air, fell to the ground, and promptly began to flap and coo excessively before one wandered off on foot and the other took flight once again.  I thought to myself, “how odd…  Colliding pigeo ...

This piece was originally intended to be a concerto for two unaccompanied trumpets.  The score that is posted is the version for the trumpets, though it would be suitable for most brass players.  Other editions of this piece exist for bassoon, clarinet, and flute, so ultimately anyone can play it with anyone else.  This transformation occurred while I was attempting to get part of the piece per ...

This piece was written for an elementary school teacher of mine that recently passed away from cancer.  Her name was Sharon Yeiter, and she was a wonderfully inspiring woman who gave all she had to her students, and never considered giving up on anyone.  She was one of the biggest forces in my life at the time to get me reading, and was always full of new ideas to make it fun and interesting for ...

A 1-minute miniature for guitar.  The work is designed to be very free in performance, having a folk song-like quality to it.  It is not exactly intended for the concert hall, but rather for performance on a street, quad, or other nontraditional concert setting. ...

This piece tells multiple different stories in a single way, and the story that unfolds is determined by the performer. The first movement, Foreplay, is characterized by extreme register shifts combine with a tradeoff between strongly modal and semi-tonal harmonic centers.  The leaps into the higher register could be understood as cries of pain, or abrupt transitions from one mood to another, or ...

A 1-minute miniature for soprano saxophone and tuba named by saxophonist Dan Puccio. ...

This piece came about in a really weird way.  I was sitting at the piano messing around with some ideas while my girlfriend and my mother were on the couch across the room making comments about anything and everything.  Eventually, the conversation shifted to post-tonal theory, and my girlfriend ended up suggesting that I play some stuff off of a receipt.  So, I reached into my pockets and pull ...