Provided below is the first movement of Symphony for Piano and Orchestra in C Minor, a musical work that expresses the existence of the universe from the beginning of life to the end of it all. The composition of this symphony began in 2024 and is an ongoing project.

The first movement represents the creation of the oceans and the forests, the prairies and the streams, the rise of the majestic mountains, the sun and the moon, the sky and the stars, the beauty of it all laid out in stillness, waiting for life to start.

The subsequent movements depict the creation of life, evolution, and the arrival of humans exploring the beauty of nature. They encounter and overcome struggles, evolving to a higher level beyond instinctual needs, expressing feelings of love and growth.

In the sixth and final movement, we reach the apocalypse, the end of existence as we know it. The utter devastation is followed by a rise to the heavens as the symphony comes to a powerful and transcendent conclusion.

My first professionally recorded composition, Emotions of COVID-19 Lockdown, was debuted on WFMT 98.7, Chicago’s Classical radio station. The piece is mostly in the key of D-Flat Major, and is in seven sections. It begins very softly with a broad, slow D-Flat Major chorale melody, and finds its journey toward a loud conclusion in the key of D Major. This work was written to describe the emotions I felt during the tragic lockdown of COVID-19. The piece describes a wide range of feelings from despondency and frustration to hope and peace.