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COMPOSITIONS & ARRANGEMENTS

Ode to Oclef
 I wrote and produced the orcherstral music at the beginning and end of this video, and I wrote the song that the studet plays and sings. I also created the script, added the voiceover, and animated the beginning and end using Vyond. 

Furtive Felines
Orchestral Sample (MIDI orchestra)

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Mealtime at La Honda, a Suite for Woodwind Quintet

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn

This suite is dedicated to all the campers and my fellow staff at Hayward la Honda Music Camp! I composed this suite based on the sounds and songs that we hear together as a whole camp at mealtime, a thrice daily ritual. 

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We of course couldn't be together this year due to the pandemic, but we hosted a series of  masterclasses online followed by a virtual campfire where this video was premiered. July 2020. 

The melody from movement three is the not-so-happy birthday song that is a camp tradition. The kids go all out for it every time, with the banging on tables, screaming, and ironic gloom singing.

 

The last movement's primary melody is the blessing we sing before each meal, with a different staff member conducting each time. 

Spacewalk Blues

For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Vibraphone

This composition, which uses a modified 12-bar blues form, is based on the feeling of walking on the moon, or another low gravity planetary object, where each step is a joyful and mesmerizing bounce. This is a minimalist piece designed to allow the improvisers to open up, and to allow the audience to reach a meditative state. 

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My first arrangement of this song was for Chamber Jazz septet - Soprano voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, double bass, drums​

I also created and performed an Oboe Quartet Arrangement (Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello) for a GroupMuse in San Francisco.

Live concert recording at Spectrum NYC, 2017. 

Double Reed Christmas Medley

Melodies from nine Christmas songs are represented in this arrangement. Can you listen and spot them all? 

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