Terragenesis

This piece, my choral composition debut, is inspired by my adolescence in rural upstate New York. Growing up in the woods was often socially isolating, but I found exhilarative power and joy in nature. When I was young, I played by building structures out of rocks, mud, and trees, until I myself felt absorbed by the forest. This piece captures this experience through the use of mystical polyphonic textures, wordless sounds, and quotations from romantic and transcendentalist poetry.

Thank you to the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative and Professor Robert Kyr for supporting the creation and premiere of this piece.