Compositions
collage of audio fragments from suspense cues written in the past few years
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collage of audio fragments from horror cues composed in 2024-2025
Kultrungtun II
2026 * | two percussionists
full piece
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
* adaptation of the piece written in 2013-2014
for solo percussion
percussionist 1:
tumba, conga, quinto, bongos, woodblocks (2), cowbell, wooden frame drum (22"), crash cymbal (18"), ride cymbal (18"), china cymbal (18")
percussionist 2:
bass drum, gran cassa, kick drum, toms (3), cowbell, rain stick, wooden wind chimes, crash cymbal (16") ride cymbals (20", 22"), china cymbal (15")
* revision & re-mix of the piece written in 2014-2015
Ritha' (For that Walk Back Home)
2025 | bass flute, contrabass flute
full piece
Intro
I - "Time to go home"
II - "Rubble knows"
III - "Evocation"
IV - "School"
V - "Why"
a version for bass flute solo was premiered on April 26, 2026
Greater Cleveland Flute Society annual concert
flutist: Kaleb Chesnic
photo: Reuters
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It’s October 10th, 2025. A ceasefire has been agreed.
A 10-year-old boy and his mother hear the news that quickly spread across their refugee camp. The boy is confused, but doesn’t ask questions. He is anxious to return to the only home he has known, his parents have known, his grandparents…
He doesn’t understand why there is an occupier force. It never felt right, or just, but it’s been like that all his life.
Without saying a word, his mom signals that it’s time to start walking. Soon they find themselves surrounded by hundreds of other people, all walking in the same direction. Nobody would imagine that this cease fire would be violated more than 2,400 times between October 10th and April 14th, 2026, almost 300 times in the first month alone.
They just walk. Home.
Hours pass. The boy is exhausted, looks at his mom and she looks back at him with the expression of someone that cannot cry any more.
All of a sudden, the area becomes familiar. They stop. The boy recognizes what seems to be his school, his friend’s house, the little shops in the neighborhood, the street he would take to go see his grandma...
But there is nothing there. The bombs have destroyed it all. It’s all rubble. But that rubble speaks volumes… It screams... It questions…
“It’s time to go,” the mom says. “It’s not safe here,” even though she doesn’t know where to go.
They just continue. Walking.
Three Miniatures for Flute Trio and Piano
2024 | flute, alto flute, bass flute, piano
I
II
III
premiered on April 27, 2025
Greater Cleveland Flute Society
Martha Somach (flute)
Kelly Mollnow Wilson (alto flute)
Dylan Masariego (bass flute)
Javier González (piano)
from the play “Trópico Macbeth, part 1 –
The Rise to Power”
August-September 2024
from the play “Trópico Macbeth, part 1 –
The Rise to Power”
August-September 2024
from the play “Trópico Macbeth, part 1 –
The Rise to Power”
August - September 2024
Trópico Macbeth — "The Rise to Power"
2024 | orchestra, hybrid orchestra
Santa Marina Island - part 1
Santa Marina Island - part 2
Santa Marina Island - part 3
Santa Marina Island - part 4
Trópico Macbeth - Titles
Aparición en las sombras
Premonición
Payé
Las santeras
"¡Vamos!"
Lady Macbeth sin escrúpulos
En trance - part 1
En trance - part 2
Retrato
El plan de Lady Macbeth
Las voces de su conciencia
La santera reaparece
Intento fallido
"¡Te condenan a morir!"
El secreto
Asesinato
El cadáver
Final - El poder, al fin
Spanish-language theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Written, produced, and directed by John Rivera-Resto
August-September 2024
Performed at the LatinUs Theater Company's Black Box Theater at the Pivot Center in Cleveland.
Tiempo muerto (play)
2022 | various
Acordes jíbaros
La decisión final
La desesperación de Manuel
El secreto de Rosa
Juana y Rosa
La realidad no entiende inglés
Tiempo muerto
El peso de la tristeza
Simón
Classic tragedy in three acts, by Manuel Méndez Ballester, premiered in Puerto Rico in 1940.
Directed by John Rivera-Resto
April-May 2022
(from Cleveland Arts & Events)
”Set in the sugar cane fields of Aguadilla, during the off season or "dead time," the family’s morals are tested against severe economic needs, exposing what becomes of humans when all dignity is taken away by an oppressive system,” much of which persists today.
from the play “Tiempo muerto”
April-May 2022
from the play “Tiempo muerto”
April-May 2022
Score submitted as part of the Dissertation for the
Ph.D. in Music Theory / Composition
Kent State University
November 2019
premiered on February 16, 2015
New Music Ensemble KSU
Ludwill Hall – Kent State University
premiered on May 10, 2010
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
electronics: CSound, DSP
premiered on January 26, 2009
performer: Carlton Vickers
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
performed on May 10, 2010 by Sean Gabriel
Drinko Hall, Cleveland State University
premiered in March, 2010
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
premiered on May 10, 2010
Carol Dieball (percussion)
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
Pablo Gómez (electric piano)
Kevin Robertson (electric bass)
Carole Dieball (drum set)
Karl Konz (vibraphone, congas)
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
premiered in March, 2009 by pianist Winston Choi Drinko Hall, Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio
sound synthesis (CSound), DSP
premiered on May 10, 2010
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
premiered on January 26, 2009
Patrick O’Keefe (bass clarinet), Pablo Gómez (electronics)
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
performed on May 10, 2010
Nikola Djurica (bass clarinet), Pablo Gómez (electronics)
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
sound synthesis
premiered on September 12, 2009
Drinko Hall – Cleveland State University
premiered on December 11, 2006
Fernando Luzardo (viola)
Escuela Universitaria de Música
Montevideo, Uruguay
premiered on December 15, 2004
Escuela Universitaria de Música
Montevideo Uruguay
premiered on October 6, 2000
5to Festival de Música Instrumental
Instituto Musical Polimnia
Montevideo, Uruguay