Featured Works
On this page are a few, selected compositions to introduce new listeners to Connor's music. Please reference the Works page for more of Connor's music, or the Contact page to inquire about this music (or any other works)!
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Eldissoquy for Full Orchestra; 10' 30"
The meaning of a piece of music is dependent on the listener's personal experiences. The title, Eldissoquy, is an artificial word that combines elements of the words possible, diss, soliloquy, and decay. This word was also created as if to be the name of a mythological event that has not occurred, which is partially inspired by major events that appear in different religions. Despite alternating motions and emotions, the nature of the Eldissoquy is up to you: the listener. How will you define our future? |
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Inside Voice for Pierrot Ensemble, 9' 00"
Inside Voice is inspired by the notion of having to stay silent and repress your feelings and/or your personality to satisfy someone else. When someone [younger] screams, they’re often reminded to “use [their] inside voice.” This work follows a poem by the composer through cycling frustration, bursting out into an “outside voice.” The chaos is cut off dramatically by the singer, who twists the text to suggest that this entire presentation has been a farce, as often happens when someone else “doesn’t like what they hear.” The piece concludes with a grounded sense of self and a self-chosen inside voice. |
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Presence for Piano Trio; 8' 00"
There are a lot of mysteries to life, including one's purpose or what remains beyond our realm of understanding. Highlighting a poem by the composer, Presence juggles the ideas of existing, being present, and embodying an aura which affects others. In the end, everything will melt, disappear, and sink, but also have existed. So, where are you? |
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Tenparu (テンパる) for Solo Saxophone; 3' 45"
Tenparu (テンパる) is a Japanese expression that conveys being at the edge of one's limits. This work uses various gestures that come in and out of focus to capture the sense of one slowly approaching their breaking point. Ultimately, that threshold is crossed in a final squeal of emotion. |
What Was Left Behind for Solo English Horn; 7' 15"
In a time of chaos, one can only imagine a future where everything has been lost. This work for solo English horn is conceptually set in this future, where memories and emotions growl viscerally through lamenting melodies with fragmented multiphonic sounds. It in this soundscape where we imagine what was left behind from the past, should we ever have to live in this dark and broken world.
In a time of chaos, one can only imagine a future where everything has been lost. This work for solo English horn is conceptually set in this future, where memories and emotions growl viscerally through lamenting melodies with fragmented multiphonic sounds. It in this soundscape where we imagine what was left behind from the past, should we ever have to live in this dark and broken world.