In 1901, leaders in Portland Oregon, gathered to envision their city’s future.

Pine Meadow Ranch is, and has been, a part of the rural Oregon landscape for over 100 years

Focusing on Wide Open Spaces, six short vignettes step us into the expansive and intimate spaces of the landscape

Tundra Tapestry explores the small intricated details of plant life within the vastness of Denali’s landscape.
 

The vastness of the seemingly barren landscape of Death Valley National Park enveloped me as I drove an hour to reach my destination.

Fanfare for Justice, originally for low horn solo, evolved out of the repeated senseless deaths of black people.

I went to hear the Dunes sing. The Kelso Dunes are renowned for their moaning song – a sound similar to a section of low cellos or string basses forcefully wailing.

Dusk, like an actual sunset, is about the transformation of color over time.

Celilo Falls, Wy’am, is one of the most important places you’ve never heard of.

Each movement represents an important place for both the trail’s historic inhabitants and the settlers who traversed the trail to reach Oregon territory.

Tundra Tapestry explores the small intricated details of plant life within the vastness of Denali’s landscape.

Call for Justice is an adaptation of Fanfare for Justice , a French Horn Quartet.

The piece explores the idea of nature’s natural process through the lens of the September 2012 fire that searingly ravaged part of the mountain, the regeneration of botanical life and the activity of the living beings that have returned to the scorched forest.

The Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 brought thousands of miners to the Yukon River, and in 1901 the first gold claim was filed at Coal Creek, previously mined for coal.

In 2010, the Rogue River first beckoned. A few years later, I hiked most of and rafted some of its 40 mile trail.

Denali National Park’s immense hills and mountains appear to be cloaked in a lush green carpet, capped by stone and ice, with braided rivers at its feet.

Cloudburst was created by applying sounds and patterns found in nature to musical instrumentation.

The Brook emerges softly and slowly – like the tiny trickle of as stream.

Dusk, like an actual sunset, is about the transformation of color over time.

We know ancient and indigenous cultures played music and sang – an active part of life.

A three-movement work, FREE LAND begins by interweaving the essence of the landscape with the lives of original Americans.

This piece is inspired by the flow of water in Denali National Park. Water flows not only from rain and snow melt along the edges of the mountains, but from the melting glaciers as well.

This three-­‐movement work explores the idea of composing with a restricted set of options.

North Cascades National Park, is often regarded by many as America’s Alps.

61 Glass is a site-specific musical work in which the intersection of mid-century architecture, and the art and culture of a dynamic city are inextricably linked.

During my first visit to Cottonwood Canyon State Park in April 2013, I literally heard voices. Two geese, floated aimlessly down the John Day River.

Repartee is a sharp witted, but playful duet between two performers – in this case husband and wife musicians, Spencer and Traci Hoveskeland.