Hinshaw Music
An original setting of Frances R. Havergal’s beloved hymn text. This new melody is mostly pentatonic in nature, which gave me the ability to shift fluidly between major and minor tonalities — the intent being to capture the human frailty with which we struggle to trust in God’s care.
A setting of Luke 1:28–33, the words of the angel Gabriel to Mary. My goal was to express the mystery and majesty of the Annunciation, and the grace with which the angel approached the young virgin.
Inspired by the phrase from Silent Night, this original text and tune expresses the awesome nature of God’s grace revealed in the moments of Christ’s birth, His death, and ultimately His return.
Hinshaw Music
An arrangement of one of my favorite hymns and its commonly paired ST. MARGARET tune. Written during a time of great personal pain, I wanted to capture both the truth of God’s love and our struggle to accept that love as a reality.
Fred Bock Music Company
For this one, I married a fourth-century Advent text with a haunting Gaelic melody of unknown origin. I’ve always loved this text, but find that many churches overlook it because it is commonly sung to the rather difficult DIVINUM MYSTERIUM tune.
Hinshaw Music
An arrangement of the classic Christmas hymn. I tried to bring a few fresh elements to this version: in particular, I used a four-bar harmonic progression throughout that differs greatly from the original. I also returned to portions of the hymn text that are often removed in favor of the “This, This is Christ the King” refrain, which allowed me to highlight the fact that the infant would one day give Himself as a sacrifice upon the cross.
Brookfield Press / Hal Leonard
A new melodic setting of the well-known carol. One of my favorite aspects of this work is how the melody accentuates the internal rhymes Phillips Brooks used in the second line of each stanza.
Pavane Publishing
A high-energy setting of Psalm 117 in Latin, with a lot of fun metrical shifts between 3/4 and 6/8. Somewhat minimalistic in nature, it features a good deal of repetition that makes it accessible to younger choirs.
Augsburg Fortress
A rousing arrangement of the classic hymn. My choirs have loved performing this one over the years. It works very well as a call to worship.
Augsburg Fortress
A new melodic setting of the hymn Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven, based on Psalm 103. Whereas the classic LAUDA ANIMA tune is more regal in nature, I chose to go for a more worshipful setting, in hopes of highlighting the tender mercy and care our Father bestows upon us.
Augsburg Fortress
My first published composition, which will always hold a special place in my heart. This is a new melodic setting of Henry Lyte’s text, a hymn he wrote shortly before his death. I tried to paint the text in a way that expressed not only the sorrow of departing one’s mortal life, but the unspeakable joy of the moment when “Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee.”