Lost Lake

6 min.

Lost Lake, for piano trio, was inspired by two beautifully unrelated sources: a verse of 17th-century Japanese poetry by Matsuo Basho, and a couple of melodic phrases from a work by 12th-century abbess and composer Hildegard of Bingen.

These two ideas came together in the barren month of November, a time when everything seems pared down to its most essential parts. Somewhere in this bleak landscape though, I believe is something pure– a vision, perhaps.

“The moon glows the same:
It is the drifting cloud forms
Make it seem to change.”

-Matsuo Basho

Lost Lake received its premiere as part of Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival, with Reg Quiring- violin, Luke Kim- cello, and Noel McRobbie- piano, on March 14th, 2025, at Pyatt Hall, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Sheet music for this piece is available through the Canadian Music Centre:
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Sheet music is available through the Canadian Music Centre.

Merely a Mockery of Spring

cello & piano

3 min. 20 sec.

This piece was conceived as a miniature chamber work for cello and piano, and the title, “Merely a Mockery of Spring”, was inspired by a line of poetry in a cycle of poems about winter by American poet, Robert Pack. The work was performed and recorded with support of the Canadian Music Centre’s BC Region in summer 2023.
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Sheet music is available through the Canadian Music Centre.