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	<description>I am a Chicago based composer, performer, and sacred musician. As a composer, I view music theory as a branch of cognitive science, and explore its models in composition. As a teacher and performer, I study the aesthetics of the music of our time, and advance the keyboard improvisation and performance. As a sacred musician, I continue to express and define the religious in music as it relates to faith, spirituality, and the notion of self.</description>
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		<title>&#8230; of the lake II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a sequel to an earlier piano piece, …of the lake, the submitted work continues to explore the concept of an étude from the perspective of both performance and composition. The pianistic technique and compositional design of … of the lake II is structured around the notion of a constantly changing appearance of musical harmony, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invocation &#8211; A Meditation For Orchestra</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, while admiring that eclectic elegance and aura of Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, I drafted a poem, or as a matter of fact, a prayer that would eventually inspire a modest organ work composed during my graduate work at Northwestern. This organ work entitled, Invocation, represents my initial attempts in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Book of Hours Revisited</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Winter I had a privilege to premiere a new piano work, A Book of Hours, at The Art Institute of Chicago. The work takes four poems-prayers by Thomas Merton, each attributed to a period of the day: Dawn &#8211; Day &#8211; Dusk &#8211; Dark. As a Trappist monk, Merton was a poet very much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valences</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valences, three movements for pipe organ solo, suggest three contrasting musical objects, each with its own musical and emotional dichotomies of their intrinsic positive – attractive, or negative – aversive valence.  In other words, these three movements explore various polarities of specific cognitive percepts that are characterized by specific musical structures.  For instance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music and the Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aniruddh Patel, Ph. D., a San Diego-based neuroscientist of The Neuroscience Institute in San Diago, CA, presents a fascinating lecture on music and the mind. A clarinetist and classical guitarists himself, Dr. Patel offers a very engaging discussion on what happens in our mind when we listen to music. 

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