First Prize in the 2020 iSING! Festival Composition Competition

for baritone and orchestra

A setting of Tang dynasty poet Li Bai’s “Quiet Thoughts by Night”《静夜思》.

Guiyang Symphony Orchestra
Yang Yang, conductor
Guo Yiyi, baritone

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presented by Ensemble Marbling

for piano four-hands

While highway interchanges exist on a large scale, a bird's-eye view of them captures not only their grandeur, but also their geometric elegance.

Ichigo Toyama and Leon Nagami, piano

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

Vivace String Quartet 无极四重奏
Wang Chao 王超, piano

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commissioned by the 2018 APAC Orchestra Festivals, in Beijing, China

for string orchestra

For countless generations, only men were allowed to train to hunt with eagles. It was the way things were.

Until one day, a brave, fearless girl steps forward, determined to learn the ways of the hunt from her father. This is her story––Mongolia’s first eagle huntress.

St. Mary’s County High School Honor Orchestra
Kira Omelchenko, guest conductor

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

Vivace String Quartet 无极四重奏
Wang Chao 王超, piano

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commissioned by Sophia Szokolay, with generous support from the Center for Global Studies at Whitman College

sonata for violin and piano

A meditation on the past, present, and future of human migration.

Sophia Szokolay, violin
Janice Lu, piano

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commissioned by Carrillo Gantner AC and Ziyin Gantner, for Arcadia Winds, to honour all the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers who committed themselves with such courage and selflessness to save lives in hospital Intensive Care Units during the pandemic of 2020–21

for woodwind quintet

I See You was written in honour of the valiant efforts Intensive Care Unit staff undertook to take care of critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

London New Wind Festival artists

Simon Desorgher, flute / piccolo
Catherine Pluygers, oboe
Phil Edwards, clarinet
Trevor Denyer, horn
Miles Chapman, bassoon

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

members of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

members of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

members of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

members of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

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commissioned by the 2013 Shanghai International Arts Festival

for piano trio

dolphin song is a lamentation on the extinction of Yangtze River baiji white dolphins.

members of the Kaua’i Concert Association
presented by the Coral Reef Alliance

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

Charles Ives Music Festival Artists

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written for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
as part of the ‘22–’23 Australian Composers’ School

for orchestra

Despite its ubiquity, water is precious––we must protect Gaia’s lifeblood.

Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
Sara Aldana, Xiao Geng, conductors

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commissioned by the 2018 APAC Orchestra Festivals, in Beijing, China

for string orchestra

Columbus Symphony
Elias Miller, conductor

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commissioned by the 2018 APAC Orchestra Festivals, in Beijing, China

for string orchestra

Columbus Symphony
Elias Miller, conductor

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commissioned by the 2018 APAC Orchestra Festivals, in Beijing, China

for string orchestra

Columbus Symphony
Elias Miller, conductor

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commissioned by the 2018 APAC Orchestra Festivals, in Beijing, China

for string orchestra

Columbus Symphony
Elias Miller, conductor

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

members of the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra
Yue Yang, Travis Myers, violin
Andrew Monson, viola
Daron Kirsch, cello
Cameron Rodriguez, piano

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commissioned by the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Cincinnati Song Initiative, with major support from Lori Laitman

text by Miho Kinnas

for soprano and piano

I wanted to love you
without regrets, without sorrow.
Flowers will return, its color
deeper blue
but you are not here anymore.
I didn’t know your kindness until
hydrangea swayed in the rain.

Kaylyn Taylor, soprano
Mary Elizabeth Nerren, piano

Digital première [linked here]

commissioned by Courtney Miller, as part of her “Postcard from Six Continents” project

for oboe and piano

i. transience
ii. aria
iii. hub

Airports exist in dynamic equilibrium, with people constantly commuting to and fro, flying in and out.

Courtney Miller, oboe
Suzanne Polak, piano

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commissioned by Courtney Miller, as part of her “Postcard from Six Continents” project

for oboe and piano

i. transience
ii. aria
iii. hub

Airports exist in dynamic equilibrium, with people constantly commuting to and fro, flying in and out.

Cindy Liu, oboe
Zachary Guo, piano

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commissioned by the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus
Alex Canovas, artistic director

text by Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

for treble chorus and piano

Young New Yorkers’ Chorus
Alex Canovas, conductor

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

Romer String Quartet
Yip Wai Chow, Kiann Chow, violins
Ringo Chan, viola
Eric Yip, cello

Philbert Li, piano

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winner of the Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize in Music Composition

for orchestra

Trading routes that once took caravans months, over treacherous terrains, are now travelled in a matter of hours; Asia and Europe are merely linked by one night’s sleep.

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

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winner of a Jury Prize at the Sydney Int’l Piano Competition’s “Composing the Future” initiative, with support from Creative Partnerships Australia

for solo piano

Tiny Forests is inspired by the urban planning concept of breaking up a city’s concrete-and-glass jungle with plots of miniature forests. While small in scale, they still adhere to the principles of how forests form and grow: a nourishing layer of soil, above which lies (in ascending order) the shrub, sub-tree, tree, and canopy layers.

Andrew Nesler, piano

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winner of the 2021 Isidora Zebeljan Award, in Kragujevac, Serbia

for piano quintet

i. network architecture
ii. garden city
iii. airport express
iv. night skyline
v. interchange station

Mass Transit is inspired by the Shanghai metro system: an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations.

Whitman College faculty + guest artists
Jeanne Bourgeois, Amy Dodds, violins
Lyn Ritz, viola
Sally Singer Tuttle, cello
Rodolfo Faistauer, piano

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developed through string quartet ETHEL’s “Homebaked V” Program

for flute and string quartet

Terraria is inspired by the myriad ways of terrarium-building: many are contained within glass, some hang in the air, others form miniature forests, still others feature one particular tree or plant.

Allison Loggins-Hull, flute

string quartet ETHEL
Corin Lee, Kip Jones, violins
Ralph Farris, viola
Dorothy Lawson, cello

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developed through string quartet ETHEL’s “Homebaked V” Program

for flute and string quartet

Terraria is inspired by the myriad ways of terrarium-building: many are contained within glass, some hang in the air, others form miniature forests, still others feature one particular tree or plant.

Allison Loggins-Hull, flute

string quartet ETHEL
Corin Lee, Kip Jones, violins
Ralph Farris, viola
Dorothy Lawson, cello

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commissioned by the 2018 APAC Orchestra Festivals, in Beijing, China

for string orchestra

AMIS Asian High School Honor Orchestra
Kira Omelchenko, guest conductor

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