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List of WORKS

Unaccompanied solo violin

  • "Nick Chopper" (2012, published 2022)

  • "Nimme and the Wicked Witch of the East" (2012, published 2022)

  • "The Kalidah" (2012, published 2022)

  • "Nick Chopper & Nimmie Amee" (2012, published 2022)

  • "Finding Love" (2012, published 2022)

  • "Dorothy Arrives" (2012, published 2022)

  • Mama, now I can breathe (2020)

  • Evolution - Inspired by the Evolution of Black Music (2019)

  • Nevermore from Three Pieces Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe (2018)

  • Making the Perfect Dress (2017)

  • Odette and Siegfried’s First Dance (2017)

  • Swans at the Shore (2017)

  • Ship at Sea (2016)

  • The Lovers Dance* (2016)

*Published in RSL Classical Violin Grade 6 book, Edward W. Hardy’s The Lover’s Dance, Rockschool, Boosey & Hawkes, Hal Leonard.

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Instrumental chamber music

  • "Tinkers", percussion and solo violin (2012, published 2022)

  • Strange Fruit, arrangement for string quartet (2020)

  • Flying (Dancing in Spanish Harlem), for Latin ensemble (2018)

  • Flying (Dancing in Spanish Harlem), for string quartet (2018)

  • "Evil Eye" (from Three Pieces Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), for string quartet (2018)

  • "A Fantasy" (from Three Pieces Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), for string quartet (2018)

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Voice and solo violin (from The Woodsman)

  • "Cerulean Sky" (Prologue), for choir and solo violin (2012, published 2022)

  • "Whispering Munchkins-Dark Woods", for choir, solo voice and solo violin (2012, published 2022)

  • "Forever Yours", for soprano, tenor and solo violin (2012, published 2022)

  • "My Heart Is Gone", for soprano and solo violin (2012, published 2022)

  • "Rusting Tin Man", for lead tenor, soprano, tenor, solo violin and choir (2012, published 2022)

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Song cycles

  • BORN FREE* - Sorrow Home, Lineage, The Struggle Staggers Us and Southern Song, for soprano, violin and piano (2022)

* commissioned by Wolf Trap Opera / Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

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Solo harp

  • Alone (2020)

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Plays (composer and playwright)

  • Dream Chaser, play with music (2019)

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Plays (composed and performed)

  • Lake of Sorrows (off-Off Broadway, 2017)

  • A Brooklyn Boy (tour, 2015-2017)

  • The Pearl Diver (off-Off Broadway, 2016)

  • Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Purchase Rep., 2013)

  • Master and Margarita (Purchase Rep., 2013)

  • Hamlet (off-Off Broadway, 2013)

  • The Woodsman* (off-Off Broadway, Off-Broadway/ Film, 2012-2016)

  • Mother Courage and Her Children (Purchase Rep. 2012)

*Vocal and violin selections (published 2020)

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Film Scores (composed)
The Woodsman, (BroadwayHD, PBS, 2016)

 

Short Film Scores (composed and performed)

  • Strange Fruit (2020)

  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2020)

  • What did you expect? (Google Industrial Short, 2015)

  • I am Human (Purchase Film, 2014)

  • No Exit (Yellow House Pictures, 2012)

Projects

Music Organizations Titles

  • Founder and artistic director of the Omnipresent Music Festival - BIPOC Musicians Festival (2021-current)

  • Co-founder of the Northern Colorado Center for Arts Entrepreneurship (former senior director of operations, and artist-entrepreneur-in-residence, 2022-2023)

  • Violist of the Griot String Quartet (violist/ violinist, US Tour (2022-current)

  • Digital marketing director, artistic advisor, website manager, and social media manager of the Beethoven In The Rockies: Concert Series (2021 - 2023).

  • Arranger and first violinist of the Traveling Through Time String Quartet (established for the 2020 Gateways Music Festival & El Sistema virtual series).

  • Video engineer, music editor, violinist, and concert promoter for the 2020 Gateways Music Festival's Finale Concert (2020).

  • Arranger and performer (between first violin, second violin, and viola) for Sterling Strings NYC (2016-2020).

  • Performer (between first violin, second violin, and viola) for Sweet Plantain String Quartet (US tour, 2015).

  • Performer (between first violin, second violin, and viola) for the West Village Quartet (2011-2015).


Table Reads/ Development

Four Days With Edgar Allan Poe, play with music (composer and solo violinist)

Beautiful Dreamer, play with music (read and performed as young Solomon Northup).

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Film Soundtrack Recordings (performed)

  • Big Red, solo violinist, composed by Graham Reynolds (2022)

  • Los Dos Potrillos, solo violinist, composed by Graham Reynolds (2022)

  • I Choose to Live in the Light, solo violinist, composed by Graham Reynolds (2022)

  • Shirley, second violinist. composed by Tamar-kali (2020)

  • The Lie, violinist, composed by Tamar-kali (2018)

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Popular and concert recordings

  • M. Roger Holland, II’s All of Me – Ode to Sr. Thea, viola, Douglas Recording (2022).

  • Fabian Beltran’s Música Barata, viola, NYU Mercer Studio (2022).

  • Lisa Ramey’s City Called Heaven, violin & viola, Atomic Sound NYC (2021).

  • Strange Fruit, 1st violin, string quartet arrangement inspired by Billie Holiday (2020).

  • Evolution – The Evolution of Black Music, solo violin, Right Angle Studios (2019).

  • The Pearl Diver: A Japanese Legend (Ship At Sea), solo violin, Right Angle Studios (2018).

  • The Lovers Dance (From "the Pearl Diver: A Japanese Legend"), solo violin, Right Angle Studios (2018).

  • Three Pieces Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe ("Nevermore"), solo violin, John Kilgore Studios (2018), "Evil Eye" & "A Fantasy", first violin, Right Angle Studios (2018).

  • Rusting Tin Man (Remake) [From “the Woodsman”], solo violin, (2018).

  • The Woodsman (Original Off-Broadway Solo Recording), solo violin, Right Angle Studios (2016).

  • Freddie Jackson’s Love Signals; first violin, Aviator Studios NYC (2016).

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