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This is another amazing improvisation. I'm using the first minute of this in the conclusion of my next video, which is about turning @Quinn St. Mark's Etude into something that sounds a little more like a performance. I'll be sending a mass email out to Young Composers about this.

What a completely different stylistic change compared to your Symphony 9! I have to say, ragtime music was how I got started with the piano, so this type of music has a special place in my heart. The beginning of your piece is really cryptic and dissonant. I love it! About 3 minutes in, this is when I started to get Scott Joplin vibes, more specifically with the Magnetic Rag. And the clear winner of this piece is your ending which I'm not even sure how to express my feelings around it. Perhaps I can describe your ending as an anticipatory ending. It's really a great way to come to a conclusion. For example, at 5:17, that could have been a conclusion right there. And then again at 5:22, that could have been the conclusion. But you string the listener along, and actually conclude it at 5:28, which is a really sneaky way of drawing the listener in, in my opinion at least. BTW, I'm going to see how my next video does around "transforming a midi file into a performance". Basically the idea is to take a midi file without performance data, and make it sound more like a performance. If this video resonates with my audience, I would actually love to use this piece as my next example. Especially because you have performance data. It would be a challenge for me, but I think I can make your piece sound more like a performance, despite Finale's human playback + NotePerformer. If you are up for it, let me know as I would need your midi file. Love the piece! And you'd potentially be the star in one of my future playback series videos!

Hey, I finally managed to compose something. This is the last piece I composed while being 22 years old. I wanted to portray distant memories of a nice conversation I would have with a dear friend on a quiet Spring night. Let me know if you have any feedback! This is my best chamber music piece.

I don't always write in Classical style, and this Piano rag is proof. My friend Bernie Siben told me he very much enjoyed William Bolcom's "Ghost Rags," especially his "Graceful Ghost," as have I, so I thought I'd write my own somewhat creepy, mysterious ragtime piece, and this was the result, hence its name. It's challenging to be sure, but I have it on good authority from two virtuoso pianists that it's doable. I hope you enjoy! "Enigmatic Slow-Drag" - Ragtime Two-Step for Piano (2020). To my friend Bernie Siben, with gratitude for his kindness and support. - Composed August 17 – 23, 2020 at Austin. - Style: American Ragtime, ca. 1910-1915. - Duration: 05:32 - Electronic Rendering by Finale 26 music notation software’s "Human Playback" with NotePerformer 3 artificial intelligence assisted interpretation.

Hello everyone, dear friends ! Here is my last composition for orchestra. Always in the same spirit, but very happy to get to the end. I use here a thematic reservoir already used in a previous work, which was written for singing and piano, then orchestrated. But the development is totally different and I don't take over the structure. I wanted to favor the whimsical, squeaky side, certainly but not dark, with as much derision as possible. Thank you for your encouragement and comments that I look forward to! (And a small subscription on my Youtube page would also make me happy).

Greetings. I want to present another composition of mine, which I wrote in February 2023. This short piano piece, written in F-sharp minor, is based on "The Diary of A Forest Girl" by Aeppol, a Korean artist. This collection contains fanciful illustrations that I admire a lot, which later inspired me to write this piano piece. I managed to capture my performance on video, but it took me countless tries to get it right (but still flawed) since this piece was technically challenging to play. Anyway, here is the video recording, and let me know what you think about this piece. Carl Koh Wei Hao

Here is a score I composed half on keyboard and half on computer. Enjoy!

Yet another improv, i worry im boring people with these! I'll stop doing it soon, I.promise! I've started writing down my compositions/improvs again. I have a couple of minuets I'll upload soon, I just get so distracted when I sit at the piano. I've composed, via improv, a piano sonata in C major, I was thinking of the third movement when I improvised this. It reminds me of Haydn, I want the third movement to be light hearted and playful because the second movement I composed is in c minor and I use every trick up my sleeve to pull on the heart strings. I wish I recorded myself playing it, I worry my memory of it could get corrupted because it has more complex counterpoint. The first movement is like a piano concerto and is full of flashy runs in both hands. It has a Mozartian air and I use some of his signature moves but it has enough of me in it so it's not a cringey pastiche. Well I hope not! The improv here is a 'first run' so it's full of hesitation and mistakes but it made me smile when I listened back to it so I thought I'd upload it, I've been quiet for a few days so why not. Cuckoo!

Hey Jean, Thanks so much for your warm reply here and on YT. I am deeply grateful for that!!💋 I was then a Beethovanian as the force is quite great there! And there were some influence of Chopin as well with those pianistic passages particularly for the ending. I think I'm a quite a sensitive person and that maybe similar to Schubert. For Rach and Liszt, I had no clue for that!!! Thank you Papa Jean!!! Unfortunately I don't think things get better now if not for the worse. The world is becoming more and more disastrous. I composed then partly to reflect what I feel towards the world but now the world is even worse. But fortunately I may be maturer now and possibily can cope with my emotion even though there's will be small volcanic erputions of it. Thanks so much for your encouragement!!!! Henry

Hi @Carl Koh Wei Hao, This is very charming music. I don't know why, but the outer sections remind me Chopin's Mazurka especially his first one in the same key, op.6 no.1. The movement of the piece is so fluid and the work is so pianistic with all those decorative notes. The middle section is quite magical for me with the tonic major modulation and featuring high register with those broken chords. I just look at the internet and find the collection which gives you inspiration. Your music for sure suits the collection with the tender and light style! P.S @PeterthePapercomPoser ""Great job performing your own music which is a rarity! " Is this so??😈😈 At least I don't find it rare for me muahahaha! Thanks for sharing! Henry

Hi @J. Lee Graham, I don't have much exposure on ragtime music, but since this is in C# minor I must have a say on it!!! It's interesting that even though this is suppose to be less classical style, your use of counterpoint and harmony is fascinating. It does have a creepy feeling with all those chromatic counterpoint. This is funny to listen to. Thanks for sharing! P.s. I originally think you are a romantic specialist with your ballades Mike! Henry

For the curious, here is the pdf link of the manuscript (written on 3 litters and of which some transition measures are missing that I added during the transcription). It is especially indicative because it is not a piano writing. Sorry for not being able to show you a real clean orchestra score without erasures! https://drive.google.com/file/d/18zP0Hwan-6O8S5nD8xNNcBfQTmMAM2uq/view?usp=sharing