COMPOSITION PORTFOLIO
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FILM SCORES
On Healing Land [2025]
Naja Pham Lockwood
In the photo, “Saigon Execution,” a soldier fires a gun, point blank, into the head of an alleged murderer. However, the families of both men may have a different story about what happened that day.
One Summer Night [2024]
Long Lê, Ann Nguyễn
Brothers Huy and Hai struggle with their differences when deciding to admit their ailing father into hospice care. One rejects his future while the other barrels toward it.
Từ Nước (Of Water) [2023]
Marion Hill, Oxford American
Chef Nini Nguyễn prepares a traditional feast for the 2023 Lunar New Year with help from her elders and fellow second-generation Vietnamese community members.
Chú đi Biển (Uncle at Sea) [2022]
Marion Hill, HULU
The 2010 BP Oil Gulf Spill upended the lives of migrant fishermen in the Gulf South. Chú Thien led his community to the state capitol to fight for adequate compensation.
ORCHESTRA
in letting go [2025]
chamber orchestra arrangement premiered by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
1000 words [2025]
commissioned and premiered by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra and New Music USA
Cleveland, OH
evening in the village [2024]
commissioned and premired by the Allen Philharmonic
Allen, TX
#pay2play [2022]
recorded by Vladimir Podgoretsky and the Moscow Metropolitan Orchestra
Moscow, RUS
seeing clouds… [2022]
premiered by Derek Weagle and the Queer Urban Orchestra
New York, NY
CHORAL
COLOR ALL MAPS NEW [2024]
SATB div. + soloist
poetry by Jack Belsom
commissioned by the Coastal Choral Consortium
United States of America
beautiful out here [2022]
SATB
text by Dr. Meg Frazier
commissioned by Opus Vocal Ensemble for LA-ACDA
New Orleans, LA
dear heart, [2020]
SATB
poetry by Mark Twain
premiered by Dr. Felix Grahama and TRANScend
New Orleans, LA
A Soldier’s Grave [2019]
SSATBB + soloists
poetry by Cln. Newton Gale Bush
recorded by Dr. Brett Scott and Coro Volante for ABLAZE Records
Cincinnati, OH
Tupelo Poems [2017]
SATB + opt. soloist
poetry by Connor Egan
premiered by Connor Scott and the Choral Arts Initiative
Newport Beach, LA
CHAMBER
to love is return [2024]
cello, violin — commissioned by Red Cedar Chamber Music
Cleveland, OH
in letting go [2023]
string quartet — commissioned by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra
Cleveland, OH
to break a pattern [2022]
flute, violin, piano, cello — commissioned by Salastina
Los Angeles, LA
the midnight drive [2021]
flute, Bb clarinet, piano — commissioned by Palisades Virtuosi
Bogota, NJ
String Quartet No.1 On Việt Themes [2018]
string quartet — commissioned by Musaica
New Orleans, LA
OPERA and ART SONG
Ba— poems from Ocean [2022]
poetry by Ocean Vuong
voice and piano — commissioned and recorded by Dr. André Chiang and UNLV
Las Vegas, NV
My Life After Corona [2020]
poetry by Chiruza Muhimuzi
voice, cello, and piano —
commissioned by White Snake Project
Boston, MA
Song of Songs [2020]
Libretto by Dylan Trần
socially distanced opera/oratorio — excerpted performance by the New Orleans Opera in 2021
New Orleans, LA
Two Summer Loves [2020]
poetry by Dylan Trần
voice and guitar — recorded by Haley Whitney and Dylan Trần
New Orleans, LA
Rapunzel and the Four (Over)Eager Princes [2016]
libretto by Dylan Trần
6 funny singers and piano — commissioned by the Loyola University Opera Theater
New Orleans, LA