My duet “Dream Land” on Chih-I Hsiao’s album, Traveler.
Chih-I Hsiao: erhu
Jonah Payne: vibraphone
Ethan Patterson: audio engineer
Togetherness is a song I wrote with my good friend, Madeline Reddel. We performed it as a duet as well as with our full band, Past Casual, for many years. This video was part of our submission for the 2021 NPR Tiny Desk Concert!
Vocals - Madeline Reddel
Steel pans - Jonah Payne
Audio/Video - Simon Clark
Treetops is a song I wrote with my good friend, Madeline Reddel. We performed it as a duet as well as with our full band, Past Casual, for many years. This video was part of our submission for the 2021 NPR Tiny Desk Concert!
Vocals - Madeline Reddel
Steel pans - Jonah Payne
Audio/Video - Simon Clark
Lead Pan= John Wayne Duke
Double Seconds= Jonah Payne
Triple Guitars= Andrew Wray
Variation 1= 1:30
Variation 2= 2:49
Variation 3= 4:04
Variation 4= 5:18
Variation 5= 6:28
Variation 6= 7:30
Variation 7= 8:36
Variation 8= 9:44
Fratres has been arranged for a variety of instrumentations over the years. For my sophomore recital, I arranged this beautiful piece for steel pan trio (lead, double seconds, and triple guitars). I referenced 5-6 other arrangements when writing this piece.
Here is the UNT 8 O’Clock Steel Band playing my arrangement of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” at the Music at Noon Concert (10/25/24)!
This is an original composition I wrote for the University of Nebraska's Club Panguin in 2019.
Here is an arrangement I made for the UNT 8 O'Clock Steel Band under the leadership of Nathan Siegel!
This video is from the premiere of my arrangement of Michael Lowenstern’s “Better” at the College of DuPage Percussion Ensemble Concert on 5/10/23.
This video is from the premiere of my piece “Dreamland” at the penultimate night of the NIU World Music Festival on 4/14/23. This features Chih-I Hsaio on erhu and Christian Baugher on vibraphone!
Madeline and I performed our original song 'Togetherness' at a First Friday art show on November 1st, 2019! Enjoy!!
DANCERS - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dance Studio* (error in video)
Video - Patrick McCarthy
Vocals - Madeline Reddel
Double seconds - Jonah Payne
Location - Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
My former band, Past Casual, performing and interviewing as part of the Huskers in the Spotlight series in 2020. These are original compositions of mine, with lyrics by Madeline Reddel!
Feat. Madeline Reddel (vocals), Ben Stuart (piano), Noah Gose (guitar), Ellie Stone (bass), Eric Espinoza (drum set), and myself (drum set and steel pans).