This album will be something of a timeline of my compositional life. It will begin with the first “real” piece that I ever wrote, Design & Fluctuations: a work for solo flute that explored modalities commonly found in jazz and rock music and won several MTNA awards for me in 1999. In turn, the album will close with my latest composition, Weep no more, my lady!, which is set to become the first movement of a violin concerto. Weep no more, my lady! utilizes the Stephen Foster minstrel My Old Kentucky Home as expositional thematic material and capitalizes on the violin’s rare ability to reside in multiple genres without sacrificing idiomatic tendencies.

The album will also include my work self portrait for cello  & piano, which was completed in 2008. In 3 movements, this piece encompasses much of the emotional damage that I incurred and inflicted as I struggled to conquer depression. I had spent much of my life depressed and did not know there was any other way to live. self portrait was very therapeutic for me when I wrote it.

The remaining composition on this album, mar y fuego, will be a set of 3 songs set for mezzo-soprano and piano. The poems for these songs, entitled Sueño, La Primera Noche, and La Noche es Verde, come from a dear friend. In them she seeks to explore sensuality and womanhood in her native tongue.