Composition Journal

My Two Recent Accomplishments

I've been keeping busy with musical projects for the last few months. In addition to recording many more covers of some of my favorite...

A Game and a Book - New Adventures!

Projects give me something worthwhile to spend my time on, and having other things in which music plays a smaller role help show me what...

Tales of a Traveller - My Bard Variations

At the end of last semester, the wonderful Chicago-based reed trio Ritual Action came to one of our composition forums to talk about...

Writing a Game Concert Suite - The Prophetic Chronicles

I've long been a fan of video game and film concerts, with some of the first ones I saw being 2011's The Legend of Zelda Symphony of the...

My UIUC Fall Semester - New Experiments

Hello! It has been a while since my last blog post, and for that I apologize; I have been extremely busy with university life. However, I ha

My Summer Projects

This summer has been such a musical euphoria for me. Combining my interest in composing and playing the violin again with the lockdown, I...