Instrumental Music

These pieces are a select few of my oldest complete instrumental works before I became a serious composer, where I learned how to use a notation software and what the process of composing was! There are also some more recent but less serious pieces here too.

Ode to SCCS (2018)
My first ever composition, as a tribute to my elementary school, Santa Cruz Children’s School, written for solo piano. Premiered at their annual spring concert in 2018.
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Video of premiere

String Quintet (2018)
My first attempt at chamber music. Some of this piece is impossible to play.
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Untitled orchestral piece (2018)
Exploring the timbres of the orchestra. Also likely impossible to play.
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Untitled wind quintet (2019)
Exploring the idea of chromatic saturation.
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Evocations (2019)
My first string quartet, which was read in spring of 2019 by members of the Santa Cruz Symphony.
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Video of reading session

Untitled piano sonata (2019)
My first attempt at a sonata form, with a theme and variations as the second movement
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Cold Winds (2022)
Written for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Youth Ensemble
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Bowling (2023)
Written for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Youth Ensemble. A semi-improvisatory piece with mixing bowls.
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Audio of premiere

what did the ocean say to the shore? nothing, it just waved (2024)
A percussion solo written using various concepts taught in a class about percussion instruments taught by Professor Ross Kare
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