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Here is the link to my string quartet that I wrote in February, performed wonderfully by the Tippett Quartet. Do like, subscribe and comment what you think...! I'd love to hear it 🙂

Hello! Here is my submission for the Secret Santa composing event organized by @Jean Szulc and @Left Unexplained. It's titled "Left Unspoken," it's scored for piano trio, and it was inspired by my Secret Santa topic: the word mamihlapinatapei, from @TheCluelessClariney. In their own words: My piece comes in fairly short at just under 4:00. It is structured as a simple A-B-A format, with one more contemporary-sounding section sandwiched between two more CPE-sounding sections. I hope the theme comes across in the interplay between the violin and cello, particularly at the end. Made with MuseScore 3. As always, all criticisms and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for listening. 🙂

A short fugue composed by me. I would like some comments regarding harmony, modulations and counterpoint. I am aware that the piece is impossible to play.

Here was my topic for the Secret Santa event: "I'll keep this topic simple -and fairly abstract. One of the things, in my music, that I often write about is life and death. So, the topic that I choose will be within this abstract area: life, mortality, death, rebirth, lessons learned in life, philosophy of life." Wasn't sure whether or not to include the author, so I'll abstain for now, but I hope you enjoy the piece... though it is admittedly very theoretical.

Here's mine. Warning, it's "modern" and I normally allow my things to ferment for at least a month before finalising so it'll be rougher at the edges than I'd like. The brief was: = = = = = = = = "In a world stricken with climate change, the government deteriorates until their true motives become clear, to look out for the most wealthy Americans. A young man on the side of the fortunate finally wakes up to the injustice he was blind to when he meets a female laborer for his father’s company and sees for himself the horrors of living in an unlivable world with no money. Something has to change, but there are no easy solutions on a planet running a fever. Will he sacrifice everything to be with a lowly laborer and fight for justice or will he return to an insulated life and assume the familial role of oppressor?" = = = = = = = = This is of course the synopsis for a One Act Opera. (Unfortunately, my favourite librettist is in lockdown and the instant opera machine I bought from Rossini needs a refill of quavers - well, he did give it some heavy use - so this "extract" had to do. j/k). This is the interlude between penultimate and closing scenes, mainly a dialog between the lead characters overcoming acerbic differences and perhaps...just perhaps reaching a reconciliation as the harmony increasingly relies on consonances. [EDIT] When I tried to load the piece direct it set up the MP3 but also allowed a link back to my computer. Not on - oh no no no! So I lodged it in Soundcloud Here it is https://soundcloud.com/acitore/santa-comp

Beautiful. I enjoyed it very much. Nice dialogue.

Hello fellow musicians. Yesterday I composed a little nocturne (actually the 2nd one of my set of "Small piano compositions"), for a good friend of mine. I did my best to respect the idiom of this type of composition. I hope you'll enjoy, I would be glad to know your thoughts about it ! 🙂

Here is my new piece, a Piano Chamberto (Chamber concerto), for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon. This has been a long project, my most ambitious piece to-date in terms of complexity - I'm really glad to have finished it at last! 🙂 The goal was to use a format similar to Classical-era Piano concertos, but with a reduced set of instruments. Please let me know what you think! Dan

The genius of the greats lives on in you. This was breathtaking in every way. Thoughtfully composed, expertly played, subtly emoted. If you aren't hailed as one of the foremost composers/musicians of your generation one day... well, people must be deaf. 😉 Thank you for sharing this. I look forward to hearing more from you! Have you ever considered composing chamber or orchestral music?

Really beautiful, Theodore! Plus, a really fantastic performance (I'm assuming, otherwise, what do you use to create audio like that?!) Unfortunately, I can't be particularly critical as I have no experience writing in this style and don't usually listen to this type of music much, but what I can say is that I really enjoyed it, in particular the first half (as per my preferences for earlier styles) and you've clearly accomplished what you set out to achieve in making sure this melody isn't forgotten, so bravo! You make wonderful use of the piano's expressive capabilities and I think you should begin to think about publishing, if you've not already done so.

Nice piece. Interesting chromatic parts.

The music is beautiful, I like it. But sometimes the feeling is it was intended for the piano. Some pedal changes can’t be done, you have even three simultanous changes in the same pedal. Pedal marks should be complete in glissandi. Bisbigliando is for soft dynamics , not f o ff...

My first piece for solo violin: a sonata-form Allegro. I hope you enjoy. I'd welcome any and all feedback, especially if there's areas that aren't very playable...

Hello everyone I would like to share this new melody. If you have time, please give me your opinion and advice. Thanks ! 🙂

I wrote this short piece to practice counterpoint, creating some rythmic variety between parts and using some rythmic imitation. I highly appreciate your comments, and let me know if I have some forbiten parallels or weakness in the voice leading, my goal is to learn and improve 🙂 I have also a question: my baseline usually enters after the hard beat with the rythmic main motif and the resolution of the leading tone is delayed and resolved one octave downwards. I'm also not sure if this I a legant solution, because the 4th suspension between the oboe and bassoon is missing because of the silence, but on the other hand the resolution ends properly, so it's probably fine. I have tryed to put the notes missing on the hard beats and in the right octave, but it worsens drastically the flow...Can someone clarify that's is right or not? And how can it be explained? Probably my mind is just stuck with the classical pattern, where every note has to resolve in certain way and I'm just starting to open my mind... Also before the last cadence the dominant (F) should be resolved to the tonic one octave + a fourth upwards, though in the last beat the Bb is the missing one from the previous bar. Can it be analysed as a delayed resolution?

Hello! I'm new to this website, but I can't wait to interact with everyone on here! I have a lot of music I'd love to submit here, and I just thought I would start off with my most recent piece. "Ai-Ai Gaza" is the Japanese word for two lovers, usually young people, walking in the rain under an umbrella. It represents a simple kind of love that I hope not only myself, but everyone will find some day in life. I hope you all enjoy the tenderness and warm love that this piece conveys! :D