Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Sonata in A minor for flute alone

Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Sonata in A minor, Poco adagio
There are never enough hours in the day for me to do everything I want to do. This summer I am torn between composition, painting, and the flute. I have been devoting more time to flute lately, bringing my chops up to [...]

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Glass – Electronic Soundtrack – New Music for Dance

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This past winter I was invited by a fellow composer and my former teacher James R. Carlson to participate in the annual Art Moves, a collaboration of original art, music, and dance inspired by artwork at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
I was commissioned to compose music celebrating A Visionary [...]

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New Music – Flute Concerto “The Espionage”

I am happy to announce the completion of my latest composition for flute – the long-awaited Flute Concerto. If you are a faithful reader of my blog, you might remember my references to writing a flute sonata. I originally thought I would write a respectable sonata for flute and piano, but as [...]

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New Music – Free Scores and Sheet Music in PDF Format

I have decided to conduct an experiment related to the distribution of my music. For a limited time, in addition to the professionally bound scores which you can purchase on my website, I am making available free PDFs of my music.
If you would like to obtain any of my scores, I ask that [...]

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Jubilance and Lament – New Compositions

I am enclosing links to my latest compositions: The Jubilance and the Lament. Both works were composed to satisfy the final requirement of a counterpoint course in my undergraduate studies and both draw inspiration from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier.
In their initial version, the Jubilance and the Lament were written for [...]

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Orchestration / Scoring Demos

A good composer has to be able to wear many hats; that of an orchestrator, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, and, of course a creator / inventor.
I finally had some time to pull my orchestration projects I prepared last year. It’s so much fun to play with the orchestral colors. I am enclosing a couple of [...]

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Prelude and Fugue – New compositions for piano solo

Lest you think I only write poetry these days, I am encolsing links to my latest music compositions.
Inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier in style and form, and influenced by the colorful progressions of the Impressionists, I wrote a Prelude and a Fuge in 3 voices. This time I ventured [...]

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Beautiful is the Mention of Your Name

Beautiful is the mention of your name
Lovely is the shape of its sounds
But were it not for the language
My lips would call upon it still
With velvety timbres of golden sunrises
And soft whispers of hisses and shimmers
With every breath the muse soars
On swirling currents of warm air
The fingers tremble and thirst
For a touch of the sacred [...]

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Sedated

Couple of years ago, during a span of just a few days, without any rhyme or reason, purely by accident, I found out that several people I knew were taking doctor prescribed antidepressants. I had not given it much thought before then, but ever since that time I began to pay attention to the [...]

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