Featured Works

 
 
 

Piano Trio: “Field of Iris” (2021)

Piano Trio: “Field of Iris” is the first piece I wrote coming out of quarantine. During that time, I also began my process of coming out to my family, friends, and community. Writing this piece was used as a touchstone during that recent time in my life.

Commissioned by the Juilliard School as winner of the Gena Raps Chamber Music Prize; Duration: 12’

Performance History:

  • December 11, 2021: Emma Meinrenken, violin; Matthew Christakos, cello; Thomas Weaver, piano

  • April 26, 2022: Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center

 
 
 

Broadacre City for Flute and String Quartet (2022)

Broadacre City reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s abandoned designs. The form of the piece tries to capture their trajectory: a sudden, relentless genesis of ideas and material that slowly strips away and disintegrates to total stasis. Overtime, ghost-like versions of those ideas find a new footing - all of which trying to convey the effect these forgotten designs had on the craft and consciousness of their creator.

Commissioned by Chamber Music Northwest; Gloria Chien & Soovin Kim, artistic directors; Duration: 14’

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Moonshot for String Quartet (2019)

Moonshot was inspired by a triptych of “date-paintings” which chart milestones of Apollo 11, created by Japanese-American artist On Kawara and on-display at the Glenstone Museum. The piece is in three movements to reflect each painting: I. July 16, 1969, launch; II. July 20, 1969, the lunar landing; and III. July 21, 1969, people throughout Earth reacting to and reflecting on this watershed moment.

Commissioned by Glenstone for their first anniversary. The video recording was filmed in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, produced for the 2019 Smithsonian Year of Music; Duration: 16’

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