Hi, Jessie. Here I have uploaded some of my works for your review, as we discussed. To streamline things and make them easier to hear and see as I envision them, I put the sheet music and the audio in a video format, which you can just play to both hear the music and see the score. Of course, in each case, the performance is from the notation software I use, so, as I’m sure you understand, it suffices to communicate the idea of the music but won’t sound exactly as clear as a human performance.

SONATINA FANTASY

This is one of my very first compositions, which I wrote back in 2005. As the name Sonatina-Fantasy implies, it lies somewhere between those two realms - it has three distinct movements, where the main theme/trill motifs are restated and developed, but it doesn’t necessarily follow strict-classical sonatina form, and leans more into Romantic/Impressionistic Fantasy free-form structure. This is a youthful work, composed when I was about 19 or 20. Overall, this is the final version of the work. Here, the notation software is giving a rendition of it (I just didn’t have the bandwidth to relearn it as I’m currently trying to maintain ten pieces for the classical album I’m recording soon), so the “performance” here is limited by the software capabilities, but it’s very close to how I imagine a true performance will sound.

Piano Concerto No. 1

This is my first piano concerto, which I began working on this year. As you can see, only the opening Introduction and the very first moments of the First Movement are complete, and the latter only in rough draft format. I anticipate this work will be complete by Winter 2024. I have the entire piece in my head, it’s just a matter of notating it now. It’s a modern work, with some callbacks to Late Romanticism, Impressionism, Russian/German Romanticism, but ultimately, I think, very 20th Century. It is programmatic, and I’ve written a story/poem about an energy being, called The “Chrysanthemum Paradox”, which can be invoked by humans and visits the Earth to invite all of humanity to a moment of celebration and transportation to it’s realm. The music will be a programmatic capturing of that fantasy story, and as you can see, each few measures has a heading which corresponds to elements of the tale. The piece in total is about 20-30 minutes, so this 2 minute section is just the brief opening idea.

String Quartet

This is my String Quartet, also a piece in its nascent stage that I’ve begun writing this year. This and the Piano Concerto are my two main focuses right now, and I expect it to be completed around Fall/Winter 2024 also. This piece was inspired by the events of Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi. I watched the historical drama miniseries Chernobyl and then several documentaries about it. And, of course, I remember the events of Fukushima Daiichi in the early 2000s. In both instances, nuclear power plants suffered catastrophic failures and resulted in nuclear incidents that have forever marked the world, and are still untold in the damage they may have done. I don’t necessarily consider this a “message piece” so much as a musical capturing of the emotions around such moments. I imagine the opening bars to be cars arriving, doors slamming, and people chattering about what’s going on, before the brief Triste arco tutti section, where everyone fully realizes the extent and horror of the damage. The repeated pizzicato motif that follows, will drone on endlessly, changed between the other strings, while a central melody emerges and develops around that. I expect the final piece to be around 10-15 minutes.

Of course, I welcome any reviews, critiques, suggestions, ideas, and guidance. I thank you for volunteering to take a listen to my work, and anything you wish to share would be valuable and appreciated. Thanks again!