Piano Music
The Heart Speaks in Silence: Songs without Words, Six pieces for solo piano (2010)
I. Meadowlark Tears and Yearning Streets
II. A Simple Love
III. To Know or Not to Know
IV. Unanswered
V. A Beautiful Connection
VI. The Creative Life
A set of six pieces in varying styles and difficulty, intended for a mature interpretation. The opening and closing pieces were written for my two daughters, Catherine and Grace, both of whom play the piano. Premiere by the composer, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, 2010
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Poetic Preludes: Suite for PIano, seven pieces inspired by poetry of Ivan Fuller (2015)
I. An Order of Fries
II. Her Empty Window
III. This Ice-Breath
IV. Eagles, My Soul
V. Invisible Violets
VI. Scraping up the Trachea
VII. And the Film Begins
Seven pieces, appropriate either individually or as a complete suite, for the range of the intermediate pianist. each piece contains a key element of the pianistic art, including 7/8 rhythm, legato melody in the left hand, dissonance with varying dynamics, a "cross-hands" piece that sounds harder than it is, a pentatonic piece using una corda, a fun chromatic scare, and sweeping music like a film score. Commission and premiere for the South Dakota Music Teachers Association by the composer, Sioux Falls, SD, 2015
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