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When the Moon Met the Sea (2025)
“When the Moon Met the Sea” is a piece about second chances and new beginnings.
This piece is a remake of an old piece of mine. I composed the original piece in 2022, but that was when I was still starting out with composition, so it wasn’t very good. I liked the concept, but not how I executed it. When I gained more experience, I had the idea to improve the old piece, and this idea of second chances and new beginnings snuck its way into the music. Three years later, “When the Moon Met the Sea” won JMU’s New Music for Orchestra composition competition and premiered at JMU’s Spring String Thing.
When the moon meets the sea, the night is gone, and a new day dawns in its place.
List of works
*Commissions // ^Interdisciplinary collaborations // + Festivals and Competitions
Folia (2026)
Solo Contrabass & String Orchestra ~ 5 mins
Written for and dedicated to my sister, Fiona.
Ostraconophobia (2025) ^
Solo Piano ~ 3 mins
Written for and premiered at the Music Composition Club’s 4th annual Art of Music event, where student composers have one week to compose music based on visual artworks by art students.
Fragments of a Girl (2025)
SATB Choir ~ 3.5 mins
Text from Sappho’s Fragments 105a and 105c, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
When the Moon Met the Sea (2025) +
String Orchestra ~ 4.5 mins
Co-winner of the JMU New Music for Orchestra Competition
Premiered at JMU Spring String Thing on June 1, 2025
When I Do Count the Clock (2025)
Solo Voice & Piano ~ 3 mins
Text from William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12
Premiered at JMU Student Composers Recital on May 6, 2025
The Hymns We Weave (2025) *^
“Loom Quartet” ~ 4 mins
Commissioned by Indira Allegra for their art exhibition, Freshwater Hymns: Rituals of Becoming, where it premiered at the closing event on March 4, 2025.
Unnamed Piano Piece (2024)
Solo Piano ~ 2 mins
Written as a gift to an old friend
Mediocre Counterpoint! (2024)
Solo piano ~ 1.5 mins
La Noche Escarlata (2023) +
String Orchestra ~ 5 mins
Premiered at Chantilly High School’s 2023 Halloween Concert on October 26, 2023
Performed at the 2023 Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) Composition Festival at the VMEA Conference on November 16, 2023
The Midnight Witch’s Waltz (2023)
Solo Piano ~ 3 mins
Moonlightning (2022)
String Orchestra ~ 3 mins
Played at the Chantilly High School and Rocky Run Middle School Spring Concerts in 2022
Prelude on a Daisy Meadow (2021-2022)
Solo Piano ~ 3 mins
*Commissions // ^Interdisciplinary collaborations // + Festivals and Competitions