Lucie Chartin (soprano) and Luba Podgayskaya (piano) premiered the completed Baby Book at the Incontri Musicali chamber music festival in Spoleto, Italy in August 2017.
In everything I do, I seek to connect with people.
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I have a genuine interest in their lives. I want to share their laughter and their pain. I believe in creating transcendent and transformative experiences that ask them to feel, think, question, and discuss.
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I do this through new music. My music is a conversation—to illustrate stories, to share my own voice and the voices of others, and to encourage and guide my listeners to share of themselves.
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I want audiences to find something in my music to love, understand, appreciate, and carry with them.
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Compositions
Quickplay
Vocal Music
Baby Book (2017) 18'
six songs for soprano & piano on miscarriage, pregnancy, & motherhood​
also available for soprano & full orchestra
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Winner of Festival dei Due Mondi's 2017 G.C. Menotti Young Composers
Competition (Spoleto, Italy)
Finalist for the 2019 NATS Art Song Composition Award
Finalist for the 2018-2019 American Prize (Vocal Chamber Music)
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Objects
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Children's Pool Game
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Quickening
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Great Aunt Dora
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Looking Out
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Searching
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Balloon Interludes (2019)
a vocal improvisation for "children" ages 1-100+
(part music / theater / and joke, appropriate for singers of many ages)
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Chamber Music
Current (2018) 4'30
violin duo
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Mosaic (2017) 7'
string trio (violin, cello, & bass) or string quartet
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Atlas (2016) 7'
C trumpet, horn, trombone, and two percussionists
more info (forthcoming)
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Grit (2013) 4'
string quartet
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Dream Tapestry (2009)
flute, clarinet, violin, and cello
more info (forthcoming)
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Solo Works
Tar Hollow (2016) 2'
for solo violin
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Wild (2016) 5'
solo violin & live processing
more info (forthcoming)
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Orchestral Music
Kéyah (2019) 9'
full orchestra (2222 - 43211 - Timpani - 3 perc - strings)
Collaboration with Frank Lee Ruggles, National Eminent Photographer
Commissioned by the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra
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Baby Book (2017) 18'
Winner of Festival dei Due Mondi's 2017 Young Composers Competition
six songs for soprano & full orchestra on miscarriage, pregnancy, & motherhood​
(2222 - 43211 - Timpani - 3 perc - optional harp - soprano - strings)
also available for soprano & piano
​more info
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Summit (2015) 1'45
full orchestra
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Choral Music
Three Robert Frost Songs (2014) 12'
a cappella SSATB choir
more info (forthcoming)
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I. Mowing
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II. Fire and Ice
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III. The Aim Was Song
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Electronic Music & Installations
Black Box (2015)
An installation inviting curiosity, interactive play, and novelty in an everyday environment.
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Wayfaring Stranger (2015) ca. 5'
improvised electronics (Max/MSP)
more info (forthcoming)
An improvisation using phrases and fragments of the traditional tune "Wayfaring Stranger" sampled from voice and violin.
Notable Arrangements
Opera
Orphée+
chamber orchestra + electronics + electric guitar
For Opera Columbus (Columbus, Ohio) and Against the Grain Theater (Toronto). Based on Berlioz's revision of Gluck's original work. This new full production pushes the boundaries of operatic presentation through digital sound augmentation, captivating choreography, video projections, and aerial artistry.
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