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Here and there. I play for fun and I still teach piano and guitar.

Classical music is not really popular today so it is very hard to get original works performed, let alone have original music recorded. Computers, MIDI, mp3s and the internet give modern composers a chance to hear and share their work. Much modern symphonic music may be difficult to grasp on the first hearing so in the mp3 format, a work can be listened to multiple times. This may generate more interest in the work and lead to actual performances.

I would love to write music for film. I would definitely be interested contract of that nature!

My credits are as follows:
Composed and performed guitar and keyboard score for "The Championship Season-That Team Spirit". A TV documentary about the making of a major motion picture based on the Pulitzer prize winning play by Jason Miller.

Composed and performed piano score for "Last Waltz On A Tightrope". A one hour made for TV drama starring academy award winning actress Louise Fletcher.

Composed "Modern Day Woman" and "Challengers". Two songs released on the "Rising Sun Records" record label and published by "Purple Haze Music BMI"

Composed "Fugue On Psalm 97" for SATB chorus for the local music performance club called "The Mozart Club"

Composed and programmed a 30 second untitled theme for a closed circuit broadcast at Pocono Downs racetrack.

Set to music "Dream Tonight". A poem by British poet Tom Clarke

Orchestrated "Made In Japan". A euro-tech/pop song by French recording artist Ysa Ferrer

"Soliloquy" for solo Tuba was performed at East Carolina University at the fall 2005 premiere performances concert by Jacob Cameron

Quartet No.9 was performed in at East Carolina University by the Aeneid String Quartet at the spring 2006 premiere performances concert. The Aeneid String quartet consists of, Randy Ward (Cello) Byron Watkins (Viola) Josh Dogget (Violin) Leo Perez (Violin)

"The Key Unlocks" was perfomed at a reading at East Carolina University by the world class Verdehr Trio.

Major works:
Symphony No.1 in E-flat minor (1993)
Symphony No.2 "Birth" (1994)
Symphony No.3 (1997)
Symphony No.4 (1998)
Symphony No.5 for string orchestra and percussion (1999)
Symphony No.6 "Exodus" (2005)

Music For String Orchestra in Four Movements (1991)
"The Harvest" a ballet for a large company of dancers (1990)
"Suenos De Espana" a short ballet in one scene (1991)

String Quartet No.1 in D minor (1998)
String Quartet No.2 "The Art Of Suicide" (1999)
String Quartet No.3 in F minor "Music For My Death and Funeral" (2000)
String Quartet No.4 in G minor (2000)
String Quartet No.5 (2000)
String Quartet No.6 (2000)

Copland, Druckman, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich to name a few. I enjoy music that is tonal in essence but not traditionally so. Although I have written some, I am not a big fan of serialism. I do however, use mathematics to compose melodies and to dictate harmonic progressions.

Not sure yet. Thinking I will find it someday.

To compose, I use the Sibelius music publishing program on a custom built Alienware tower.
I use a Gateway computer running Windows ME with a sound blaster live Platinum with my own compilation of soundfonts for my Sequencing.

My MIDI performances are EXTREMELY high quality. I took great pains to add expression to these MIDI files to make the perfomance sound "human." The files fare better in .WAV format but are still good in .mp3.