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Of Vidas Pinkevičius's (@organduo) compositions, this prelude on the classic Protestant Good Friday hymn, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded," is my favorite. The piece is short, but beautifully crafted.

I recorded these two improvisations a few days ago - Tuesday, 16 June, 2020, to be exact. Tonight I combined the two improvisations (which were recorded back-to-back, incidentally, and are cut from the

I recently posted a couple new YouTube videos, and I would like to tell you a little about them... "Once Upon a Time" and "In Your Arms Again" are short piano pieces I composed last

Despite the title "prelude," which may suggest a more traditional, through-composed work, this "Prelude in C minor" by Joseph Rheinberger is a fugue-like work, featuring a complex,

Recorded August 2019, Osiris was inspired by reading about the ancient Hellenistic "mystery religion" associated with the worship of Isis and Osiris. The music depicts worshipers of Isis and

My entry for this week's contest is the seventh piece from Johannes Brahms's Eleven Chorale Preludes (for Organ) (Op. 122). Brahms's Eleven Chorale Preludes are cornerstones of the organ repertoire. "O

Yesterday James Flores (@contrabourdon) finished recording the last of the four miniatures, and this morning I posted onto SoundCloud his recording of the complete composition. The pieces of which this

Hall of Mirrors is, at its most basic level, a musical depiction of what the exterior and interior "worlds" can seem like from the perspective of someone suffering from mental illness. The

As was my entry for last week's contest, my entry for this week's Secrets of Organ Playing Contest is a work of my own composition: Thirty-Four. I have written much about Thirty-Four on this blog, so I

My entry for the Secrets of Organ Playing Contest this week is the first piece from a new composition entitled Four Miniatures (for Organ). As the title suggests, this piece had its origins in the concept

Today I recorded this video of my performing Thirty-Four, a work I composed last year, the day before my thirty-fifth birthday. The title refers to this composition's being a sort of musical reflection

Photo by DiChatz on Unsplash My entry for this week's Secrets of Organ Playing contest is an organ improvisation entitled At the Oracle of Delphi. The title refers to the mysterious Oracle of Apollo at

I thought an improvisation based on klezmer music would provide an interesting contrast, musically and in terms of mood/attitude, to the other pieces that have been submitted thus far for this week's contest.

Hello all; I hope you all are doing well! During the last few days I've posted some new videos on YouTube. Of the four I will share with you today three are organ improvisations and one is a recording

Recording an improvisation at RUCC; 23 April, 2020. Trying to remain productive during the COVID lock-down. This afternoon I recorded and posted three new videos on YouTube, and I'd like to tell you a

Springtime. Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash. I recently posted two new organ music videos on YouTube and I'd like to tell you a bit about them. This organ arrangement of the famous Australian ballad Waltzing

This morning I recorded four organ improvisations which I just posted onto YouTube, and I would like to share them with you now and tell you a bit about them. The first improvisation I recorded this morning,

This video features the closing minutes of an improvisation I recorded this afternoon after completing the recording of my Secrets of Organ Playing Contest entry. This music was inspired by the feelings

This is a newly created electronic/computer music work. The sound/compositional approach of this piece is more akin to "contemporary concert music" than many of the other works I've posted. This