Piano Music

My piano music utilizes conventional techniques from canonical keyboard repertoire. It has been my joy to compose music for pianists that is both practical and engaging. Immediate accessibility, idiomatic keyboard writing, and stylistic eclecticism are three hallmarks of my piano music. Hopefully, I have composed piano music that appeals to students, teachers, amateurs, and virtuoso concert artists alike.

Some of my piano music has been recognized in competitions including the New York City Contemporary Music Symposium- Call for Scores (Three Inventions-FINALIST) and New York City's Locrian Chamber Players- Call for Scores (Five Pages From A City Journal-WINNER). My piano music falls neatly into 5 categories: 1) Easy piano music (early intermediate to early advanced), 2) neoclassical works, 3) eclectic-contemporary works, 4) collaborative piano works, and 5) piano with orchestra. Below you will find links to SHEETMUSICDIRECT to purchase scores.

PIANO WORKS

EASY PIANO WORKS

(Early intermediate- early advanced)

Two Lyrical Sketches for the Young

1. The Cuckoo & the Nightingale

2. Carnival Fantasy

Lyrical Sketchbook (12 easy pcs.)

1. Song Without Words

2. Wizards’ Dance

3. A Christmas Waltz

4. Constellation

5. Jukebox Boogie Woogie

6. Sentimental Souvenir

(to Florence Price)

7. Music Box Medley

8. Tarantella in A Minor

9. Preludium in C# Minor

10. Riverside Rag (to Scott Joplin)

11. El Toreador

12. Rejoice!

Three Lyrical Duets

for piano 4-hands

1. Fantasia in D Minor

2. Song of the Meadowlark

3. Jubilee Texas

Two Canzonas

1. Canzona in D Major

2. Canzona in Blue

Four American Canvas Sketches

1. John Abbott McNeill Whistler,

Nocturne in Black & Gold

2. Mary Cassatt,

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

3. Henry Ossawa Tanner,

The Banjo Lesson

4. Winslow Homer,

Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)

Three American Bagatelles

1. Overture

2. Ballad

3. Reel

NEOCLASSICAL

PIANO WORKS

(Advanced concert works)

Three Inventions

1. Heron’s Engine

2. Archimedes’ Spiral

3. Da Vinci’s Flying Machine

Two Nocturnes

1. Nocturne

(For A World On Fire)

2. Nocturne

(For A World Frozen In Time)

Toccata

Sonatina

1. Ballad

2. Arietta-Interlude

3. Finale

Sonata

1. Prelude

2. Basso Ostinato

3. Scherzo

4. Elegy

5. Finale

Fantasia & Allegro Ostinato

1. Radiant and rhapsodic

2. Rustic and driving

ECLECTIC-CONTEMPORARY

PIANO WORKS

(Advanced concert works)

Lyrical Etude in C

Three Epigraphs

1. Poetic with a steady tempo

2. Pensive and a bit subdued

3. Ruminating with expression

Four Short Waltzes

1. Languid and sentimental

2. Nostalgically

3. With ease and simplicity

4. Melodious with a lilt

Shades & Hues, BOOK 1 (1-7)

1. Maximum Red

2. Desert Sand

3. Jazzberry Jam

4. Midnight Blue

5. Royal Purple

6. Sea Foam Green

7. Black Leather Jacket

Shades & Hues, BOOK 2 (8-14)

1. White Smoke

2. Palomino Gold

3. Ghost White

4. Tart Orange

5. Dark Gray

6. Tie-Dye Spiral

7. Raven Black

Five Pages from a City Journal

1. Beat on the Street

2. Remembrance

3. Funny Page

4. Musing

5. Metropolitan Express

On a Poem by Amiri Baraka

for piano solo

(Commissioned by the

American Mavericks Project,

New York City)

In progress

COLLECTIONS

Collected Piano Works, BOOK 1

(Easy Works)

Collected Piano Works, BOOK 2

(Neoclassical Works)

Collected Piano Works, BOOK 3

(Eclectic-Contemporary Works)

COLLABORATIVE
PIANO WORKS

Piano Trio:
Music for the Veneration of Two Saints
for violin, cello, and piano
1. Kyrie
2. Vespers
3. Te Deum

Piano Quartet: Memories of Summer
for Bb clarinet, violin, cello, & piano
1. Basso Ostinato
2. Commemoration
3. Scherzo
4. Soliloquy
5. Play Song
6. Gulf Breeze
7. Threnody
8. Introduction & Finale

PIANO WITH ORCHESTRA

Concerto

for piano and string orchestra
1. Prelude-Variations
2. Scherzo
3. Fantasy
4. Toccata