Solo Instrumental

To be premiered on Claire Huangci: What the Piano Holds

To be premiered on Curtis Stewart: Between Worlds

"My Childhood Memories" to be premiered on film and stage on March 31, 2027

"I love music which is in conversation with itself, and in variations with sand in the gears the cellist gets to be all the voices in a racous argument." - Paul Novak

This is the sister piece to my previous violin solo, "...your heart dreams of spring" (2020). Both works sing joy and effervescence despite struggle. The full sentence "And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring" is taken from Kahlil Gibran's poem "On Death" from his seminal 1923 book, The Prophet.

smooth | pluck | whirl is a study in contrast and continuity for unaccompanied violin, unfolding across three distinct yet interdependent sections.