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Composition Catalogue
Until Next Time - Bassoon and Piano
Available through Trevco Music!
In this piece I capture my experience of an undergraduate college degree. The piece is my final way of saying thank you and goodbye to my teachers, friends, and mentors at Arizona State University. Every laugh in the courtyard, brain-exploding lecture, performance at Gammage, and conversation with Dr. Albie Micklich is represented in this piece.
Price: $16
Seer for Solo Bassoon
Self Published!
By definition, a seer is a person who can see what the future holds through supernatural insight. Seer for solo bassoon is a narrative, "choose your own adventure" piece where bassoonists get to pick not only which of 16 fragments to perform but also the order in which they perform them.
The beginning of the piece serves as a prelude and depicts falling into a trance state. The middle section represents the fragments of one's future that performers must interpret and piece together to tell the future. The last section of the piece serves as a postlude and depicts the performer falling out of their trance state. The fragments of the future become more fragmented as technical passages buildup and awaken the performer from their trance. The future is often blurry. We get fragments at most throughout life and there is no one correct path. Performers are encouraged to reflect on their life experiences and create their own path through the music to tell the story they want to tell.
Price: $22
You...Don't Remember - Wind Quintet
Self Published! Email me if interested to get your copy!
In my first wind quintet, I give a musical depiction of my great grandmother’s experience living with dementia based on my own memories of her as well as what my family remembers of her experience. Most of the experiences I share are vague memories of extreme emotions I felt or shared with family when I was in my childhood (8-14).
A mother of 8, great grandma Soledad Cardoza was a Mexican immigrant who displayed some of the greatest feats of courage and compassion I think a human being ever could. She moved to the United States with her husband to give themselves and their kids a better life. She worked at the local hospital for an impressive 25 years, only spoke Spanish until later in life, advocated for her kids’ education, had the best recipes, loved to dance, had a green thumb, got her driver’s license at 50 while learning to read and write English, and was extremely detail oriented. An avid sewer and an unrecognized fashion designer, she made her family’s clothes and always made homemade meals with fresh ingredients. She valued her family and often wrote back to her relatives in Mexico. She took pride in how she presented herself and is remembered as being a “fashionista” as she got older. In 2005, she was diagnosed with dementia and through the care and love of the family she raised, she lived until 2018.
The words the members of the quintet speak during the performance are based off her experience, difficulties, and actions from 2005 until 2018.
Price: $35
Villain Era - Soprano and Piano
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The official Urban Dictionary defines "villain era" as when '"you're tired [of] being a pushover to others and finally start to say no.'"
"Villain Era" for soprano and piano is my first art song. Premiered and workshopped at the Collaborative Piano Institute at Louisiana State University in June 2024, the lyrics are taken from my personal journal from the months of October 2023, through April 2024: a time when I was beginning graduate school in a new area and was also grieving a breakup.
Price: $26