All Works

Featured
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
2016

A Hopeless Romantic

Film

Read More
false
2017
SATB Chorus and Piano

A LIGHT

Choral

Read More
false
2018
for medium voice and piano

A PRAYER

Solo Voice

text by Langston Hughes

Read More
false
2020
soprano and string quartet

A Wonderful Hearing

Choral

Read More
false
2019
for orchestra

AMEN! (2017 rev. 2019)

Large Ensemble

This piece pays homage to my family's four generational affiliation with the Pentecostal church. My intent is to re-create the musical experience of an African American Pentecostal church service that I enjoyed being apart of while growing up in this denomination.

Read More
false
2017
for symphony band

AMEN! (2017)

Large Ensemble

My intent is to re-create the musical experience of an African American Pentecostal church service that I enjoyed being apart of while growing up in this denomination.

Read More
false
2015
Voice

AS FREE

Electronic

Read More
false
2019

ASCAP presents Songwriters: The Next Generation - Millennium Stage (April 10, 2019)

Film

Read More
false

Amazing Grace

Film Cues

Read More
false
2019

And They Lynched Him on a Tree

Film

Read More
false
2019
for solo violin or solo cello or solo double bass

Between Worlds

Solo Works

Bill Traylor was born a slave in Alabama in 1853 and died in 1949. He lived long enough to see the United States of America go through many social and political changes. He was an eyewitness to the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the Great Migration.

Read More
false

Born For This

Film Cues

Read More
false

Born For This Conducting

Film

Read More
false
2021
for orchestra

Breathe

Orchestral

Read More
false

Bruce Almighty

Film

Read More
false

Bruce Almighty Film Demo

Film

Read More
false
2019
for baritone and piano

CARO MIO BEN

Solo Voice

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

Read More
false
saxophone quartet (sop sax/a sax/ten sax/bar sax)

CATCH ON FIRE

Small Ensemble

As the son of a Pentecostal preacher, no other memory stands out more than being a part of a “tarrying service”. The “tarry service”, usually on Friday nights, was for those members (mostly teenagers) who had not received the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Read More
false

Celestial Heavens

Film

Read More
false
2019
for medium voice and piano

DEAD FIRES

Solo Voice

These words were written in 1922 at a time when African American were making progress in a severely hostile American society.

Read More
false
2020
string quartet

Dark Washington

Film

Read More
false
2015
string quartet or string orchestra or saxophone quartet

ELEGY: A CRY FROM THE GRAVE

Small Ensemble

This piece is an artistic reflection dedicated to those who have been murdered wrongfully by an oppressive power; namely Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

Read More
false
2016

ELEMENTS

Electronic

Read More
false
2013

Eastern Moaning

Electronic

Film Cue with Middle Eastern influence.

Read More
false
2016

Emma's Dreams

Film

Score for the First Runner Up for the Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest

Read More
false

Emmas Dreams - Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest

Film

Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest WINNER

Read More
false
2020
for orchestra

FATE NOW CONQUERS

Large Ensemble

This piece was inspired by a journal entry from Ludvig van Beethoven’s notebook written in 1815: “Iliad. The Twenty-Second Book But Fate now conquers; I am hers; and yet not she shall share In my renown; that life is left to every noble spirit And that some great deed shall beget that all lives shall inherit.”

Read More
false
2015
Piano

Feelings About Baltimore

Chamber Music

These are my feelings on the crimes of BOTH the oppressor and the oppressed in Baltimore and throughout the country.

Read More
false

Fighting Kahl

Film

Read More
false

Film Demo

Film

Read More
false
2023
for Orchestra

Four Black American Dances

Orchestral

Dance has always been a part of any culture. Particularly in Black American communities, dance is and has been the fabric of social gatherings. There have been hundreds, perhaps thousands of dances created over the span of American history that have originated from the social climate of American slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow. This piece is an orchestral study of the music that is associated with the Ring Shout, the Waltz, Tap Dance and the Holy Dance. All of these dances are but a mere representation of the wide range of cultural and social differences within the Black American communities.

Read More
false

Fun at the Carnival

Film

Read More
false
2016

Funky Money

Film

Feeling 70's Funky...

Read More
false
2015
computer generated sounds

GENERATIONS

Electronic

My patriarchal heritage shows three generations of preachers. My great grand father, Bishop Henry C. Brooks, who began preaching in 1925, my grandfather, Bishop Charles W. Hairston in 1947 and my father Bishop Carlos O. Simon, Sr. in 1994. I chose to use audio clips from past sermons after discovering old LP and several old cassette tapes of sermons from my great grandfather and grandfather.

Read More
false
2023
Wind Band

Go Down Moses: Let My People Go

Small Ensemble

Go Down Moses arrangement for University of Michigan Symphony Band

Read More
false
2021
for orchestra

Graffiti

Orchestral

Read More
false

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Film Cues

Read More
false

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

Film Cues

Read More
false
2016
SATB Chorus

HE IS

Choral

Read More
false

Irreplaceables (documentary)

Film

Read More
false
2020
string orchestra or string quintet

JOURNEY

Small Ensemble

Journey is inspired by the following poem: Life is a Journey From once proximal end to other.

Read More
true
2015
cello and piano

LICKETY SPLIT

Small Ensemble

As young boy, I worked with my grandfather during the summers paving driveways in Rocky Mount, Virginia. He was a task master. Things had to be done the right way and with haste when he asked for it in his own playful way.

Read More
false
2019

Leah's Fugue

Film

Read More
false
2019
Quartet

Let America Be America Again- Tony Arnold and Third Angle Quartet

Choral

Let America be America again.

Read More
false
2016

Memories Of Summer

Film

A mellow jazz composition...

Read More
false
2021
for orchestra

Motherboxx Connection

Orchestral

Read More
false
2016

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (Cover)- Paula Champion

Solo Works

"The second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these." Mark 12:31 NLT

Read More
false
2015
SATB chorus and piano

My Everything

Choral

Read More
false
2020
chamber opera

NIGHT TRIP

Opera

The uncles arrive in Chicago after dark at their sister’s apartment to pick up their niece Conchetta. Big city music. Conchetta is thrilled to go “home” to see her relatives—her grandmother, her aunts, her “play aunts.” She sings about the rough world of the big city and longs for the small town life in Tennessee.

Read More
true
2014
medium voice and piano

NIGHTFALL (…while you were dreaming..)

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

Read More
false
2014
Piano and String Orchestra

Out Of Love

Film

Read More
false
2017
for orchestra and female narrator

PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN

Large Ensemble

This piece traces the evolution of black people in America through the lens of the black woman.

Read More
true
2006
Baritone and Piano

Prayer and Solitude

Choral

Read More
false
2022

Profiles

Orchestral

Read More
false
2013
TTBB chorus

Psalm 15

Choral

Read More
false
2013

Purpose

Electronic

Read More
false
2014
computer generated sounds

Rainy Season

Electronic

Read More
false
2021
For Violin, Cello, Flute/Piccolo/Alto Flute, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet in Bb, Trumpet, Piano Spoken Word Artist

Requiem for the Enslaved

Orchestral

Requiem for the Enslaved explores the sacred and historical, and honors the lives of those bought and sold. Original text by Marco Pavé.

Read More
true

Riding the Danube

Film

Read More
false
2008
SATB Chorus and Piano

SANCTUS

Choral

An original composition using the Sanctus from the Latin Mass.

Read More
false
2019
Wind Ensemble

SWEET CHARIOT

Large Ensemble

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is perhaps one of the most well known African American spirituals. As beautiful and rapturing as its melody is, it should be.

Read More
true
2019

Sailing Through Space

Film

Read More
false

Selflection

Film

Read More
false
2018
piano

Sleep Well

Solo Voice

Read More
false
2019

Space and Time

Film

Read More
false
2014
Wind Ensemble

Sweet Hour of Prayer

Film Cues

Hymn Arrangement of Sweet Hour of Prayer

Read More
false
2018
for orchestra

THE BLOCK

Large Ensemble

“The Block” is a short orchestral study based on the late visual art of Romare Bearden. Most of Bearden’s work reflects African-American culture in urban cities as well as the rural American south.

Read More
false
2019
for orchestra

THIS LAND

Large Ensemble

This piece is inspired by Emma Lazarus’ gentle, welcoming words in her poem, “New Colossus”. Lush, bright harmonies in the strings are used to represent hope and unity.

Read More
false
2008
TTBB Chorus

TRAIN'S A'COMIN

Choral

Read More
false
2021
for orchestra

Tales: a folklore symphony for orchestra

Large Ensemble

This piece explores African American folklore as well as Afrofuturists stories. This work is commissioned by the Sphinx Organization for its 25th Anniversary and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra.

Read More
true
2017
TTBB chorus, piano and organ (optional)

UNITY

Choral

Read More
false
2020
string quartet

WARMTH FROM OTHER SUNS

Small Ensemble

Between 1916 and 1970, the mass exodus of African-Americans leaving the rural South, seeking homes in the urban West, Midwest, and Northeast became known as the Great Migration.

Read More
true
2017
tenor saxophone, trumpet and rhythm section

White Only. Colored Only

Chamber Music

Read More
false
2016

Who Among Us?

Film

Read More
false

Wish I Didn't Miss You - Angie Stone Live In Warsaw

Film

Read More
false

Written in Stone

Orchestral

The theme that he and his librettist have chosen — acceptance of same-sex marriage within the black church — is a challenging one.

Read More
false
2015
piano trio (violin, cello and piano)

be still and know

Small Ensemble

This piece was inspired by an interview with Oprah Winfrey

Read More
false
2020
string trio (violin, viola, cello)

loop

Small Ensemble

The pandemic of COVID-19 has continued to influence my social, professional and personal life in ways that I never imagined.

Read More
false
2020
for solo flute or alto flute

move it

Solo Works

The pandemic of COVID-19 has continued to influence my social, professional and personal life in ways that I never imagined.

Read More
false
2020
flute and violin

stir crazy

Small Ensemble

Commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Music Academy in response to the COVID 19 pandemic.

Read More
false
2016

the rain that falls

Electronic

Read More
false
2016

the wind that blows

Electronic

Read More
false
2017
violin and cello

where two or three are gathered

Chamber Music

Read More
false
Carlos Simon