Nantucket Sound (2020)

Suite for solo cello – 18-20 min

Program Notes

Nantucket Sound, a suite for solo cello, seeks to explore the dynamic between control, fear, awe, and power that many people experience in relation to the ocean. Through a series of seven images, this work journeys through feelings of wonder, adventure, loss of control, fear, and, finally, peace. The ocean is a both beautiful and terrifying entity, which I believe makes it a fitting metaphor for the human experience. We are afraid of drowning, of not being in control, but it is necessary to become at peace with that which we cannot change. The work is named after the Nantucket Sound, one of the first oceanic bodies of water I visited as a child.