BOOK I
BOOK I: Liturgical Anthology is an ongoing collection of sacred hymnody composed in the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church — the devotional labor of my own faith. In this collection each hymn stands alone, complete in itself, bound to no chronology and to no companion work. A single text may be set many times over in various traditional Church Tones, styles and durations, returned to across years and in different voices, for these settings are not revisions of one another but distinct pieces. The volume is entirely a cappella, written for the unaccompanied human voice. Furthermore, the music is deliberately secondary to the text. It is not an ornament placed upon the words but a conduit for them — a means of attending the heart and drawing the soul toward God. If a setting succeeds, it does so by disappearing into what it serves.
Available November 1, 2026
BOOK II
BOOK II: Piano Cycle is an ongoing and continually growing instrumental cycle written for solo piano. This cycle is a singular living narrative unfolding through time, rather than a collection of isolated compositions. Although each opus is written with the intent to exist simultaneously as an independent musical work, its final form is to stand as a fragment of a greater mythopoeic continuum whose meaning deepens through sequence, recurrence, and transformation. The opus numbers are therefore not merely archival markers, but chronological coordinates within an evolving narrative cycle — an ever-unfolding musical continuum in which motifs, harmonies, and symbolic structures return altered by memory, distance, and emotional consequence. Themes introduced in one composition may remain unresolved for a time before reemerging in another form, allowing later works to retrospectively redefine those that came before them. God willing, through such means, this book becomes a holistic musical cosmology: a body of sequentially unified art in which every composition participates in the construction of a singular narrative.
