Solo Voice

2023
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Solo Voice

American Sonnets

In 2020, I was asked to compose a piece using the provocative poetry of Terrance Hayes. I chose the following three poems from Hayes’ collection American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin because I felt they represented my personal state of mind and view points as a Black American man (especially Inside Me) at that time. This piece was commissioned by the Brooklyn Art Song Society.

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2014
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Solo Voice

NIGHTFALL (…while you were dreaming..)

Art songs have long been an interest of mine. The vocal works of Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss and Arnold Schoenberg have always seem to ignite my passion for composing music

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2018
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Solo Voice

A PRAYER

text by Langston Hughes

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2019
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Solo Voice

CARO MIO BEN

An arrangement of this classic aria from the 24 Italian Art songs collection.

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2019
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Solo Voice

DEAD FIRES

“If this is peace, this dead and leaden thing, Then better far the hateful fret, the sting.”

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In 2020, I was asked to compose a piece using the provocative poetry of Terrance Hayes. I chose the following three poems from Hayes’ collection American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin because I felt they represented my personal state of mind and view points as a Black American man (especially Inside Me) at that time. This piece was commissioned by the Brooklyn Art Song Society.
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Art songs have long been an interest of mine. The vocal works of Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss and Arnold Schoenberg have always seem to ignite my passion for composing music
Read More
cOMPONENT divider

American Sonnets

2023
/
Solo Voice

In 2020, I was asked to compose a piece using the provocative poetry of Terrance Hayes. I chose the following three poems from Hayes’ collection American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin because I felt they represented my personal state of mind and view points as a Black American man (especially Inside Me) at that time. This piece was commissioned by the Brooklyn Art Song Society.

CARO MIO BEN

2019
/
Solo Voice

An arrangement of this classic aria from the 24 Italian Art songs collection.

DEAD FIRES

2019
/
Solo Voice

“If this is peace, this dead and leaden thing, Then better far the hateful fret, the sting.”

A PRAYER

2018
/
Solo Voice

text by Langston Hughes

NIGHTFALL (…while you were dreaming..)

2014
/
Solo Voice

Art songs have long been an interest of mine. The vocal works of Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss and Arnold Schoenberg have always seem to ignite my passion for composing music