Music Educator - Composer - Arranger
Kids love bucket drumming! It’s rhythmic, energetic, and it can be accessible to kids of all age levels and abilities. There are some safety and classroom management issues when bucket drumming – but they can be solved! Getting the Stuff Teachers...
What’s an Instrumental Petting Zoo? An Instrumental Petting Zoo is an event where invited guests get to try out the different instruments of the band and/or orchestra. The “guests” include your target students for beginning band and their families/parents/legal guardians....
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....
