As a whole, it is dedicated to my - still living! - maternal grandmother, though each movement has its own individual dedication to a personal loss or a person of significance. The resulting 1.87GB collection (which, like its predecessor, runs exclusively on the ARIA sound engine) is called Garritan Instant Orchestra, the title reflecting the short-attention-span, I-want-it-now world we live in. My goal for this work is to eventually apply for a grant - once indoor music is allowed again - and see what resources can be put together to achieve at least one performance and recording of this work. Once complete, it will consist of nine movements (including the nine sub-sections of the Sequentia) for Baritone Soloist, SSAATTBB Chorus, String Orchestra and Timpani. Nothing ever came into fruition until late July of 2020 when I was studying fugues and all of a sudden started writing something that eventually grew into the first movement of my new Requiem Mass. The first time I ever learned Verdi's Messa da Requiem, I was floored by the immensity of the drama that of course I set to work on writing my own mass. In the past eleven years I have sung Requiem masses (or similarly titled / themed works) by Verdi (twice), Mozart, Britten, and Brahms. The songs are available to hear in the playlist to the right ( or below, if viewing on a phone) or can be found on the YouTube playlist.
When I can't get a live recording, I have used sample libraries (primarily Garritan) to produce recordings that are uploaded onto my YouTube channel.Īs a quarantine project in 2020, I tasked myself with setting to music all the songs that appear within the Harry Potter book series. I have written both instrumental and vocal music - the latter being the type that I've actually been fortunate enough to have performed. I can lose hours or even days at a time, consumed in the process of bringing ideas and moods to life in music. Composition has become one of my most intense hobbies. I learned music through composition relying on my ear while becoming familiar with patterns on the page.
DRAMATIC GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA 5 SONGS HOW TO
In spite of some lessons as a young child, I really didn't know how to read music, let alone write it. I asked for a copy of Sieblius when I was a freshman in college.