String Quartets

String Quartets

As a percussionist and a singer, I have found that string quartets represent a unique intersection of both worlds: a set quartet of similar timbre that is nearly unlimited in rhythmic or pitch possibilities. I began writing string quartets during my doctoral work, and in fact String Quartet No. 2 was my doctoral dissertation. My quartets are layered with everything I have to say as a composer, and I feel they may represent my most important work.

String Quartet No. 1
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String Quartet No. 2
information and recording

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    Couch Surfers!

    Ongoing – I am writing music for a very different kind of project: the webseries Couch Surfers! Kind of a little bit of everything (even a Wagnerian forest moment in one episode) but mostly a lot of punk rock surf with guitar help from my friend Carleton Ingram. www.couchsurferstv.com

    May 20-21, 2011

    Taffety Punk Theatre Company presented a new collaboration between myself and choreographer Micheline Heal featuring music for piano, cello, and live computer-generated sound. The new piece, Garden for Wayward Girls was on the finale concert for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s three-week long modern dance event, “Dance Craze”.

    April 28, 2011

    Thursday, April 28, 7:30 PM at Oakdale Emory Church in Olney, MD: the very talented singers performed the new commission A Song for Peace as the first piece on their spring concert.