Music
When words and images fail…
My compositions live at the edge where grief, ritual, and structure collide. A fugue written as a student in the 1990s, a wedding march composed as both personal vow and public celebration, a threnody born from hospice caretaking and loss—each piece carries a moment of lived intensity.
I write in the language of counterpoint, motifs, and harmonic architecture, but the emotional core is raw: mourning, resilience, and defiance against silence. These works are less about polish than about necessity—music as witness, as memorial, as a demand to be felt.
My first composition from 1992: a fugue I wrote as an assignment for my music history class. It expresses the turmoil I felt during that time as I transitioned from the military back into civilian life.
This piece was written for my wife as an interlude during our wedding.
This is my arrangement and orchestration of a holiday favorite
This is the wedding processional that I wrote for my wife in 1997.
I wrote this threnody as a tribute to my late friend I helped through her hospice. I reached back to ancient Greece for inspiration with the incorporation of a Phrygian tetrachord. This was to update to an ancient form for modern use.