Compositions

LANDFALL

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2023
For full orchestra (2122/2221/harp/piano/3/strings)
Duration: 8:17

Commissioned by Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra

Premiered in Heimweh Hall, November 12, 2023

…for not all is lost

2021
For Violin and Piano
Duration: 6:30

Commissioned by Toronto Summer Music 2021
Jonathan Crow, violin
Philip Chiu, piano

Premiered in Koerner Hall, July 26, 2021

Without Skill but with Strength

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202o
For Violin, Viola and Piano
Duration: 9:30

Commissioned by Lövstabruks Kammarmusikfestival
Philip Zuckerman, violin
Riikka Repo, viola
Thomas Rudberg, piano

Utan skicklighet men med förmåga by Johanna Ekström

Utal skicklighet men med förmåga
lyfter du mig ur ledsnaden
Ytterst sakta
som visste du
att det som rycks upp
kan tappa något
på vägen
*
Without skill but with strength
you lifted me out of my grief—
Utterly calm
as one who knew
that to snatch a thing up
allows little bits
to drop away

The Current (And Those Who Ride It)

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2019
For Violin and Cello
Duration: 7:00

Jonathan Crow, violin
Joseph Johnson, cello

There is a constant flow of energy in the universe that, if paid attention to, can bring one on an unexpected and fulfilling adventure. This piece depicts that current of energy and the triumphant journey of one that trusts in it, despite moments of trepidation or tribulation.

Pomegranate Noir

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2017
For String Octet
Duration: 3:30

Commissioned by Chamber Music @ NewPark

Alice Hong, violin
Heng Han Hou, violin
Danny Koo, violin
Yung-Yu Lin, violin
Rory McLeod, viola
Natasha Galitzine, viola
Britton Riley, cello
Allison Rich, cello

Audio Engineering by Britton Riley

Phoenix (for full orchestra)

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Excerpt only

2013 (revised 2018)
For full orchestra
Duration: 7:00

Winner of the 2018 Toronto Symphony Orchestra “Call For Scores”

Sepia

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2015
For Violin and Piano
Duration: 9:00

Alice Hong, violin
Benjamin Smith, piano

Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes – like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night – little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the composition of my memories. - C. S. Lewis

Sepia follows the elusive trajectory of a memory as it first plants itself unknowingly and, eventually, fades quietly away. In photographic terms, “Sepia” is the color associated with old monochrome photographs as they discolor and fade over time. Though the image remains intact, the distortion creates an irreversible filter, possibly one that tucks the memory of the original photograph’s image farther away, harder to retrieve as more time passes.

Address to the Moon

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2014
For Cello and Piano
Duration: 3:00

Britton Riley, cello
Alice Hong, piano

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Address to the Moon

How sweet the silver Moon's pale ray,
Falls trembling on the distant bay,
O'er which the breezes sigh no more,
Nor billows lash the sounding shore.
Say, do the eyes of those I love,
Behold thee as thou soar'st above,
Lonely, majestic and serene,
The calm and placid evening's Queen?
Say, if upon thy peaceful breast,
Departed spirits find their rest,
For who would wish a fairer home,
Than in that bright, refulgent dome?

Video by Mark Gee

Alycone

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2014
For Violin and CD playback
Winner of the 2013-2014 Composer Performer Competition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, sponsored by Carl E. Baldassarre

Alcyone, scored for violin and virtual instruments, is a narrative based on a Greek myth of love and tragedy. The tale revolves around Alcyone, goddess of the wind, and her love Ceyx, as they are happily together but meet animosity from the other gods. In disapproval of the relationship, Zeus strikes Ceyx's boat with a lighting bolt and brings the fisherman to his watery death. The heartbroken Alcyone throws herself in after him, and this is where we join her in her final moments. The piece begins when Alcyone has already plunged herself into the ocean. As the piece progresses, Alcyone begins to share her story to the listener, marked by the return of the motif heard in the beginning of the piece. A love theme is introduced, as well as a counter melody that represents Alcyone's impending death. Both themes are continuously intertwined until Alcyone draws her last breath; then, death. In remorse, the gods resurrect Alcyone into the halcyon bird as to free her from her ocean grave.

poème de la forêt

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2012
For Solo Cello
Duration: 8:00

The long cloud edged with streaming grey
Soars from the West;
The red leaf mounts with it away,
Showing the nest
A blot among the branches bare:
There is a cry of outcasts in the air.

- George Meredith