Messengers
and Providers
In
December of 2006 I gave a hybrid performance/composition recital to
showcase new material I had written for small jazz ensemble. This
piece is something of a tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
Elegy
Elegy is a chamber jazz piece for horns, string quartet, and Latin
percussion. Also premiered at my senior recital, December 2006.
We
Will Travel Someday
This is my first ever work for big band, and I hope to
write many more. WWTS is a suite in three parts: the promise, the fantasy,
the return, and is inspired by the works of Michel Camilo and Michael
Abene. It was premiered by the UNC Jazz Band on April 19th, 2005.
Watermelon
Girl
This is a more recent work I wrote for Steve Anderson's jazz composition
and arranging class in the spring of 2006. Received Honorable
Mention in the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards.
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From Puppets and Shadows (book and lyrics by Dana Dobreva). This is the first number for
Ouna, a forest dweller. Here performed at my senior recital by
Katie Curtis.
Last
Cigarette
From Puppets and Shadows. This version of Last Cigarette
was performed by Louise Brock at my senior recital, backed by a jazz
trio and string quartet. In this song Elsa, the coffee shop owner,
sings a ballad she wrote to a crowd with a very special person in the
audience...
Lamb
of God
From The Chapel Hill Mass, commissioned by the Newman Catholic
Student Center Parish, here performed by the Newman Center choir at my
senior recital. The English translation of the Agnus Dei by the
International Consultation on English Texts. |
