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For Violin Ensemble and Percussion. It is divided into four different movements (each 1 to 2 minutes in length) featuring a different type of storm: a monsoon, a tornado, a hurricane, and a blizzard.

Commissioned by Ensemble CONCEPT/21,"Birds of Freedom" is a musical respond to Rashaun Rucker's exhibition "The Patron Saints of a Black Boy: Never Free to Rest

Rancor and Triumph is a work for solo cello and orchestra that exhibits the emotional impact felt, in part, on the individual and on society when the voice of the people is not heard. The solo cello acts as the voice of the unheard, underrepresented, marginalized, and confused person, accompanied by the orchestra. It is an acknowledgement of the hurt, pain, and rage felt towards the present as well as a prayer for the hope of the future.

“Sound rises from the ashes of the Poinsettia fire.” Ashes to Poinsettias tells a narrative to evoke the idea of a single Poinsettia flower outlasting the destruction of the Poinsettia fire. It musically juxtaposes this narrative by using grandiose moments intermixed within a thematic development that encompasses the idea of hope amid destruction.