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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

Forgotten Royalty is the story of Abdulrahman Sori who was West African royalty before he was enslaved on a Mississippi plantation. Forgotten Royalty tells this story using grandiose triplets that recur through a soaring thick harmonic texture through a fugue-like presence.

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.

In "Shadows", the idea of the shadows within the painting as well as the absence of a shadow for the girl in white is evoked through the single-movement miniature symphonic tone poem using register, texture, counterpoint, and chromaticism. The trajectory of the piece begins in a darkness, at the center of the shadow that opens into a sweeping melodic line with chromatic moments throughout to signify a glimmer of light in the form of hope, reason, justice, or innocence amid the shadows.