Travelogues (2025)

Instrumentation:
Violin
Piano

Duration: ca. 12’

commissioned by violinist Sophia Szokolay, with generous support from Whitman College’s Global Studies Faculty Development Fund

I. Past
II. Present
III. Future

Travelogues is a meditation on the past, present, and future of human migration:

The “past” recalls my childhood, in transit among the misty verdant mountains of Southeast China...
The “present” depicts megacities and their complex, interconnected transit systems...
The “future” imagines our eventual travels into the stars...

Performances:

9/2026: Winterthur, DE
Winterthur Museum
Eliot Heaton, violin
Thomas Weaver, piano

7/2026: Cairns, Australia
Australian Festival of Chamber Music
Jack Liebeck, violin
Piers Lane, piano

6/2026: Chatham, MA
Sophia Szokolay, violin
Janice Lu, piano

4/2026: Portland, ME
Maya French, violin
Chris Staknys, piano

11/2025: Boston, MA
Sophia Szokolay, violin
Janice Lu, piano