Compostions & Sketches

 
 
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Sweaty but sweet

Months with no air conditioning, COVID confinement, broad canvas of days streaming into one another … I was looking at a lot of Bartok’s String Quartet writing and Barry Harris’s thoughts on voice leading at the time.

May 2020

 
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Allston Fugue

Written in conjunction with Lavell Blackwell and Henri Colombat, this is a “zip-code piece” dedicated to my neighborhood of Allston. These pieces were inspired by the lockdown of 2020 and they allowed us both to pay tribute to where we were confined as well as make connections across distance. Premiered in a recital on Aug. 25, 2020.

August 2020

 
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She in the sun-flecked shade

A sketch where I was trying out some voice leading with extended harmonies. Mood of the tune came to me seeing passersby on a sunny spring day on Comm. Ave. on its stretch through Allston.

April 2020