Continental Express (2025)

co-commissioned and premiered by the New York Youth Symphony
and Interlochen Center for the Arts, as part of the Jon Deak First Music Program

Continental Express imagines a high-speed rail journey across the United States. Stops along the way include: the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Mojave Desert. Each landscape parades by swiftly; the train glides over tracks of steel, anxious to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Continental Express also pays homage to some of my musical inspirations: Aaron Copland (Great Plains), Jean Sibelius (Rocky Mountains), Tan Dun (Mojave Desert), and John Adams (Origin & Terminus).