Portfolio

  • Confession (2018): A solo piano piece using modal harmony to tell a story about the anxiety of telling someone how you feel about them.

    2015 (2019): A non-tonal solo vibraphone piece showing the deterioration of a relationship overtime.

    Quarantine (2020): A solo oboe piece exploring the concept of time during the pandemic lockdown.

    Duality (2021): A solo vibraphone piece about the complexities of gender, using knowledge of form from the 18th century in a contemporary classical piece.

    Sex, Accomplices, Blood, and God (2022): A piece for percussion set up based on the four loves outlined by philosopher and writer C. S. Lewis: Eros, Philia, Storge, and Agape.

    Beyond (2023): Written for Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, this solo violin piece includes a personal message using morse code communicated with extended techniques and some graphic notation.

    Variations on Delusion (2023): A solo piano piece using extended techniques about someone losing touch with reality.

    Rage (2023): A solo saxophone piece written by placing a drawing over sheet music and writing gestures on the sheet music.

  • I Wish I Was a Saiga Antelope (2019): A string quartet about the majestic yet clumsy Saiga Antelope, a silly looking creature with an absurd nose. Performed at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

    She Gives and Gives (2020): A flute quartet about the history of the world and how colonization and the industrial revolution has permanently damaged our planet. Performed at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

    I Went To Hell (2021): Using sets, a 12 tone system, and circular bowing, this piece for viola and double bass. Performed by the Alinea Ensemble.

    Sharp to Dull (2023): Viola and spoken word piece using text by Laura Avila. A piece about the. Performed April 24th at Laura Avila's senior recital.

    Revolution 3000 (2023): A piece for four percussionists with the score being a mix of graphic score and floating cell notation. Performed at the Ithaca College Percussion Concert.

    Moving Parts (2024): A graphic score for any two performers about the way two people can interact and how we can work together to create change. Performed at the Swiss Institute in New York, NY.

    Imatataq Nuqamanta (2024): A trumpet sextet for the Trumpet Ensemble at University of Texas Austin. Will be performed in Spring 2025.

  • Splitting (2021): A piece using standard and graphic notation for choir about the concept of splitting in the context of mental illness and Borderline Personality Disorder. Performed by Ithaca College Chorus.

    Lightening, Sea, and Death (2022): A piece for string orchestra uses graphic notation to encourage freedom in performance and for the performers to make their own choices. Commissioned and performed by Ithaca High School.

    Curing A Wellness (2023): A piece for full symphonic orchestra including graphic notation in the string part. Written for Ithaca College Orchestra.

    From The River To The Sea (2024): A chance piece for 12 vocalists about the intersectionality of mental health and racism. Commissioned and performed for Patrice Pastore’s vocal improvisation class.

  • Redacted (2020): An electroacoustic piece about jealousy using morse code to reveal a secret message using found sounds on an office desk. Also used in the play “The Orange: An Odyssey” written and performed by Hypothesis Theater Ensemble May 2024.

    Interrupted (2020): A solo trumpet and drone piece about the inability to focus due to interrupting family members and distractions

    Vacancy (2021): A piece written for Spatial Forces for the Charlotte New Music Festival. Using a language created by a 24 tone system, this solo clarinet piece is about overstimulation around crowds.

    Stone Cold Chakra (2022): A bass flute multimedia piece in honor of the passing of Phoenix Ashley Stone, an amazing musician, composer, and friend. This aleatoric piece highlights the five stages of grief in two movements based on two of her pieces.

    Experimentations on Anger (2023): A chance piece displaying anger and coping skills, including the destruction of a vibrator, a violin, a watermelon, and more using power tools.

    AQCHA (2023): This text score depicts generational trauma and culture clashes growing up in a mixed family. Performed with Harmony Theater Company.

    Do You Hear The Music? (2024): An original 40 minute play written by Max Von Kolnitz that has a live pianist on stage playing music throughout the entire play. Performed by The Butterfly Effect Theater Ensemble May 2024.

  • Let Go (2019): Written for piano and voice, this piece is about letting go of unrealistic romantic expectations.

    Why I Don’t Go To McDonalds (2022): A piece for piano and voice exploring bodily autonomy, power, and sex. Dedicated to my mother.

    Drawer Full of Quarters (2023): A song about the pain of heartbreak and throwing away things that remind you of them.

    Cardinal Sins (2023): Betrayal is illustrated in this piece for guitar and voice about pure vengeance and violence.