Below you will find various projects and pieces that I have composed from string quartets to music composed for a production of a play. Headphones are recommended.

 

“My Prayer”

Composed gradually between 2019 and 2022, this piece is the result of a slow and intentional creative process, shaped by a period marked by global uncertainty and my own personal turmoil. Premiered by MTU’s ConScience Chamber Choir in 2023, the work sets texts from two Psalms: 102:1–3 and 116:1–2.

These verses form a poignant emotional arc. Psalm 102 opens with an urgent cry - “Hear my prayer, O Lord” - a voice trembling with desperation and isolation. In contrast, Psalm 116 responds with quiet assurance and gratitude: “He inclined His ear to me.” Placed side by side, the texts evoke a journey from anguish to consolation, from pleading to peace. The music seeks to hold this tension, allowing listeners to dwell in both the rawness of human need and the beauty of being answered.

Creative Composition:
“Lght & Lfe”

This piece was composed in response to a custom mural by Raquel Alvizures, created for the art gallery at Michigan Technological University; It’s a bold, abstract work grounded in earthy palettes, organic movement, and the raw textures of the natural world.

Alvizures’ art sparked a question in me: What if we could feel life unfolding at a microscopic level? Not just observe it, but inhabit it. A whole universe where cells collide, divide, decay; where beauty and violence coexist in every breathless instant. Beneath the still surface of nature lies a world in constant, unrelenting motion: chaotic, intricate, and strangely alive.

This piece aims to give voice to that unseen turbulence. Its sounds are layered, restless, and pulsing, an attempt to echo the complexity of a universe too small for the eye, but too vast to ignore. It moves between density and silence, tension and suspension, mimicking the rhythms of growth and entropy. In this piece, I hope you’ll hear not just a reflection of the mural, but a translation of its spirit into sound: gritty, fragile, and endlessly alive.

(Headphones recommended)

“Lavender & Blue”

Lavender & Blue is my first major composition—a string quartet that serves as a personal overture, reflecting on years shaped by emotional turbulence, quiet beauty, and everything in between. Rather than telling a single story, the piece unfolds through a series of emotional snapshots: moments of heartbreak, fragile joy, stillness, and unrest. It is music drawn from memory, from time, and from the realization that beauty and sorrow often arrive together.

The title, Lavender & Blue, holds particular meaning. Lavender is often seen as calming and delicate, a color of softness and peace. But within it lies blue—the color of sadness, longing, and emotional depth. That blending suggests something deeper: that these feelings are not opposites, but closely connected. Even in the most serene moments, there can be a trace of melancholy. And in sorrow, we sometimes find strange and unexpected beauty.

The music moves through shifting textures and moods, exploring these emotional tensions without offering clear resolution. At its conclusion, the quartet builds into a slow, rising crescendo that doesn’t resolve, but lingers. The final moment is one of suspension, a breath held open. It leaves space for what comes next—a story still unfolding, a future not yet written.

Lavender & Blue - for String Quartet

On the Verge

Michigan Technological University’s McCardle Theater presented a production of the play On the Verge by Eric Overmyer.

For class, I was given a clip of Bruce Almighty without music to use as something to compose for. I wrote for a small orchestra, and it was recorded live in a studio on campus. Here's what I wrote.