I have composed quite a bit of music over the years, including a string quartet for my wedding, consisting of a processional and a recesssional. I greatly enjoy composing this kind of music, so if you'd like to hire me to compose music for your special occasion, feel free to send me an email.
Below are PDFs and MP3s of some music I've written, feel free to play them on gigs, use printed copies as decorative placemats, etc.
Juilliard- Concerto Grosso - A concerto for Eb trumpet, violin, flute, oboe, cello and double bass. Uses ritornello form, and a constraint was that pitch should be incidental.
- Green Glass - theme and variations for string quartet, using a 12 tone row throughout.
- Elocution - A chaconne for solo violin, with one constraint. every note in the score had to be marked with some sort of articulation. This was an immensely helpful assignment for me, as it got me into the habit of writing out articulations.
- The Calm Before... - A piece for solo clarinet, which had to utilize two intervals throughout. I chose a major second and a perfect fourth.
- Sketches for Piano - A study in tertial, secundal, quartal and split triads for solo piano. Written in rounded binary form.
- Two Thirds - A trio for horn, oboe and cello. The kicker here was there had to be an "event" exactly 61.8% of the way through the piece, and another exactly halfway. The piece should be shaped by these two events. This was hard, and I ended up writing a lot extra and the deleting many sections to get it to come out right.
- Horn Trio - A trio for trumpet, trombone and horn. I can't remember the constraint on this one.
- Falling Through - Our first assignment, for flute and cello. This was a rondo, which repeated a theme across several different modes.
- Where the Sidewalk Ends - A duet for soprano and piano. The text is from Shel Silverstein's famous poem.
- three - a laid back waltz
- on thin ice - another waltz, really fun to solo on
- september - when I wrote this tune, I originally came up with the hot title "september in the rain". unfortunately, I later found out that was taken.
- christmas without you - a christmas song I wrote after a friend of mine's dad passed away.
- Bachlike(mp3) - a counterpoint study
- Blue Pools(mp3) - another study in the bach style of counterpoint
- Peter Bernstein's solo on "Jeannine"(mp3)
- Peter Bernstein's solo on "Lady Bird"(mp3)
- Peter Bernstein's solo on "Billie's Bounce"(mp3)
- Peter Bernstein's solo on "Like Yeah"(mp3)
- Peter Bernstein's solo on "Chant"(mp3)
- Peter Bernstein's solo on "Who Can I Turn To?"
- Kenny Garrett's solo on "Solid"(mp3)
- Woody Shaw's solo on "Have You Met Miss Jones?"(mp3)
- Red Garland and Paul Chambers on "A Foggy Day"(mp3)