These pieces were composed when I was in high school and during my first years of college.

Graduation March (Audio)

Written for the Hinkley High School 1970 graduation. Performed by Glenn Chambers (now music professor at the Conservatoire de Paris) and Yvonne Zamora. Arranged here for winds.

Bugle (Audio)

An experiment in bitonality: a trumpet that likes only black notes meets a piano that insists on white.

Longing (Audio)

An expression of adolescent emotion

Minuet and Fugue (Audio)

Baroque musical forms with added chromaticism

Morning (Audio)


Etude (Audio)

An exercise in thematic development, written in a basement practice room at Williams Village, at CU Boulder campus.

Prelude (Audio)


Night (Audio)

Performed in a recital in 1969 at Hinkley High School.