Crossed Destinies and Other Stories for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Marimba, Piano and Computer will be premiered at Ovation Sound in Winston Salem, NC on June 18th by the Catchfire Collective ensemble. I completed Crossed Destinies and Other Stories in 2019.

The composition was inspired by a novel by Italvo Calvino titled The Castle of Crossed Destinies. In his novel, Calvino creates a sequence of interlocking stories from Tarot cards. Calvino’s story is told from a castle/tavern where people gather to tell their stories through Tarot card readings. This music translates Calvino’s premise into sound, exploring how composed material and real-time improvisation can intertwine to produce emergent musical narratives.

Also on the program will be Lyric for Cello and Computer a work that celebrates the lyrical qualities of the cello.

On June 24th, Six Haiku for Soprano, Clarinet in A and Computer will be performed at the New York City Electronic Music Festival. Six Haiku is a meditation on transience—on how sound, like life, arises, unfolds, and fades. Just as each haiku captures a singular instant of awareness, each movement offers a sound-world that exists only for a moment, suspended between memory and anticipation. The piece invites listeners to inhabit these moments fully, to attend to the subtleties of sound and silence, and to discover, within each fleeting impression, a sense of timelessness.