Ballet & Orchestral Works

At Winter's Edge
This work was influenced by the writings of Wallace Berry, a Canadian music theorist and composer. He approached musical form from it’s “architectonic structure” of organization, not in a traditional sense, but examining the symmetry of musical phrase structure and it’s reciprocal effect that each cell has on future events within the musical form. (continue reading)

Ballet
The orchestral score to the petite ballet The Happy Prince was written for chamber orchestra. The work is based on a tonal framework to reflect the historical time period that Oscar Wilde's short story — written for a collection of stories for children in 1888 — portrays. The touching libretto by Norma Shields skillfully presents the poinent and timless story of The Happy Prince which continues even today to represent many important societal issues. (continue reading)