Music Educator - Composer - Arranger
Lollipop March is a cheerful, pizzicato-only piece for beginning string orchestra. Written entirely on the D major scale, it helps young musicians build confidence in tone, rhythm, and ensemble skills while keeping the performance experience fun and engaging. The music...
With its haunting melody, intense fanfare, and rich textures, The Titan captures the imagination of young players and audiences alike. Written for beginning concert band (Grade 1), the piece introduces students to minor tonalities, musical form, and expressive playing through...
This piano piece was an experiment, composed almost entirely of four notes: A-C-D & G. At the turning point in the composition the four tones are transposed down a fifth to D-F-G-C and chromatic alterations are added, but the piece...
The Allegory of the Cubicle is my first foray into composing for film, and composing using Logic rather than Sibelius or standard notation. The film is by NJCU Graduate student Raul Garcia, and was originally created with no sound –...
My first string quartet is based on Winter’s Sky, a piece that I originally composed for my high school woodwind ensemble. The musical ideas, however, were always conceived for strings. As a project for my first year at NJCU M.M....
