ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS

A popular piece with young audiences. Excellent teaching tool to explain 12-bar blues form. For sale by Alry Publications here.

A top-seller, Bagels and Biscuits is a humorous work depicting a couple in love who eat bagels and biscuits for brunch. Several choirs have posted YouTube videos of their performances. It is for sale by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc. here. 

This setting of the Apostle Paul's words in 1 Corinthians is for the advanced high school choir or college-level/professional choir.

For the intermediate piano student, The Mystery Rag is a lively tribute to the great Scott Joplin, who popularized piano rags. Listen to it.

Written for granddaughter Maddy, this easy piece for the beginning piano student is a lovely lullaby that helped Maddy sleep when she was a baby.  Listen.

An easier piano rag for the advanced beginner than The Mystery Rag, Lara's Ragtime Dance was written for Lara's piano recital, and received with lots of applause. Hear it here.

For the intermediate piano student, Blues for Lara is an easy 12-bar blues written for another of Lara's piano recitals. The parents and other family members were delighted with the performance as well as the piece. Hear it here.

For the advanced piano quartet (piano, violin, viola, cello) Slip Jig Shenanigan is modeled after the Irish slip jig, a jig dance in 9/8 meter rather than 6/8. A great light-hearted encore! Hear it here.

A violin piece for the advanced intermediate student, with piano accompaniment. A biographical work that tells the story of a day in the life of a young Dragonfly.  Buy it here.

Autumn Leaf in a Mountain Stream is a moderately challenging festival competition work that follows a maple leaf as it makes its journey down a mountain stream, encountering challenges along the way. Buy it here.

A viola piece for the advanced intermediate student, with piano accompaniment, Dublin Sunrise has a Celtic flavor that depicts a bright morning on the Irish coast.  Listen to it here.

One of the most famous racehorses of all time, Whirlaway is the first and only horse to win all four races in the Triple Crown and the Travers Stakes. This 13-minute string quartet captures the highlights of his life from his birth to his journey to horse heaven.  Hear it here.

Planet of Peace is a song for voice and piano that teaches that peace begins at home. Hear it here.

This is the official Alma Mater of California State University Channel Islands.  Hear it here.

March of the Graduates was played at several San Jose State University graduation ceremonies and is played as a recessional march at CSU Channel Islands graduation ceremonies. Hear it here.

Rondo Royale, written for the San Jose State University Symphonic Band, is a concert rondo in the ABACA form that includes some smooth jazz, and a Balinese gamelan section in memory of Lou Harrison.  Hear it here.