Duration: 15m

My Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano arose on a night I learned my sister was in the hospital. I did not know what to do with myself so I took to my computer to write the Clarinet piece my then roommate (Clarinetist Michael Fascetta) mentioned he might ask me to write. Fortunately, he did ask me, and the resulting piece has been by far my most performed. 

UDel Composition Recital (10/2024) - 

Yoshiaki Onishi, clarinet

Matthew Kiple, Piano

Edited by Yoshiaki Onishi

Full Video: https://vimeo.com/1022116031?share=copy

Duration: 8m

Escapade for Flute Quartet is a piece that uses it's repetition to its advantage. The climax of the first theme is withheld until the final time it is heard, creating the feeling of greatly increasing the excitement of it's arrival. The challenges of this piece lie in its elegant simplicity, as all players are forced to play in very exposed passages. This piece was commissioned by Abby Von Ohlen for her Senior Flute Recital at UD. (10/2024)

Abby Von Ohlen, flute

Yuki Seo, violin

Sophia Moreira, viola

Ray Pragman, cello

A personal favorite movement of mine from the Bach partita. To me, it always has a humorous quality to it. Recorded in November 2024 whilst recording graduate school auditions!

Robbie Strauss, flute

Duration: 9m

The Quartet on Four Notes is a work for string quartet that attempts to blur the line between violin and fiddle style playing through the vessel of a simple four-note motive. When violinist Dorothy Marks asked me to write the piece, she asked specifically for this sort of quartet. For me as a flute player, it was quite the unique challenge to navigate a totally different style of an unfamiliar instrument. But, I think the resulting piece speaks for itself.

UDel Composition Recital (10/2024) - 

Trellis String Quartet

Leo Matsuoka, violin

Dallas Noble, violin

Zach Levin, viola

Priscilla Kim, cello

Edited by Yoshiaki Onishi