For Holy Week 2023, I wrote three organ voluntaries that became my "Triduum in Three Movements". This piece is an expanded version of the "Good Friday" middle movement, arranged for violin and cello. A deeply emotive work drawing from the likes of Barber's Adagio for Strings and Elgar's Nimrod, this composition seeks to tap into the depths of the soul the love and loss many felt and still feel to this day for Christ's crucifixion.

Dedicated to Andrew Messersmith and his fiancée Addison Darby, the musicians who asked for and premiered the piece.

This piece is a reduction of the first section of my 2019 orchestra opus Pinnacle. In place of the massive instrumentation in the full work that limits its performability is the more plausible pipe organ, which provides a whole other kind of power. A viola also replaces the solo violin for greater body to stand against the organ.

This piece, originally written for viola and string orchestra as the ninth movement of Constellations: A Suite for String Orchestra, was inspired by Cygnus, the Swan. Where the orchestral version soars to great heights, capturing the bird's dramatic ascent into the stars, this simpler arrangement taps into a gentler, more intimate aspect of Cygnus's exquisite flight. 

Everyone has their times of adversity, times where they are struggling to get ahead or to make ends meet. As the title suggests, this piece calls to all those in difficult situations to persevere, to show courage, to brave the tough times. You can do it; you have the power within you to keep going. You are endowed with fortitude.

Dedicated to my mother.

An easy rondo that transports performers and listeners onto the voyage of a fifteenth-century Spanish galleon.

Dedicated to my mother.