Triove: Siam Mais

Siam Mais was first preformed April 19th, 2008 at Florida Southern College’s Anne MacGregor Jenkins Recital Hall. It was performed for Phi Mu Alpha’s American Composers Recital directed by Brandon Bair. Although the recital itself was one of the most awkward recitals I’ve seen during my career at Florida Southern the performance went well. I was very pleased with both Matthew Habib, tenor and Sara Gibbs, piano performance. They were great to work with for the couple of weeks prior and really gave me an insight into writing for these particular instruments. I started to write Triove simply because Habib asked me to write him a piece. We had shared several classes together in the past and liked each others work. After years and several projects later I finally begun to work on it. I knew I had to get some lyrics from somewhere. It just so happened that I [...]