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My Compositions
Reminiscence (2022)
This piece was awarded Second Prize in the 2024 MTNA National Composition Competition. This is my second composition and it is heavily inspired by Tchaikovsky, Kapustin, and "the lick" (I added the lick 8 times). I wrote this piece between August to December 2022 and revised some of it in June 2023. The main melodic motive (the descending scale) is inspired by Tchaikovsky's "Pas de deux" from "The Nutcracker" and there is much influence from Kapustin in terms of the featured jazz-like textures and harmonies. There are also hints Impressionistic sounds, as well as small moments influenced by Scriabin and Schumann. I also quote a short piano line from “Soy Candela” by the Spanish Harlem Orchestra at one point as an inside joke with a friend.
Rêves magiques (2021)
This is a piece I wrote during the fall semester of my junior year in college in my composition elective. It's my very first composition ever since I had no prior composition training before I took the class. The piece, as the name suggests, is supposed to evoke some sort of mysterious and magical dream, but whatever the dream may be is subjective to each listener and performer. I do not have too much to say for this piece because I don't want to tell the audience what specifically they're supposed to think about when they hear the piece, but rather, imagine whatever it is for themselves.
I am working on several other compositions at the moment, stay tuned!
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