INSTRUMENTATION
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet in Bb, Trombone, Piano, Bass, Drum Set
PERUSAL MATERIALS
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Movement II: Frogs
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Movement III: Lice
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Movement IV: Beasts
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Movement V: Pestilence
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Movement VII: Flaming Hail
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Movement VIII: Locusts
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Movement IX: Darkness
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Movement X: Death of the First-born
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NOTES
“The Ten Plagues,” along with its accompanying scholarly introduction, constituted my senior undergraduate thesis at Harvard. Looking to other long-form jazz suites by artists such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Wynton Marsalis, I chose to set the story of the Exodus from the Old Testament, with each plague comprising one movement of the suite.
PERFORMANCES
May 2009
Paine Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Quinn Carson, Russell Macklem, Malcolm Campbell, and the Harvard Jazz Collective; Michael Schachter, conductor
HONORS
Winner of the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for top undergraduate theses at Harvard
Honorable Mention: 2011 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards
Honorable Mention: 2011 New York Youth Symphony Jazz Awards