Precisely (2024)
for orchestra 

I composed Precisely in approximately eight months, from May 2023 to early January 2024. This might not seem like an incredibly large amount of time but to me as a young composer, it was an eternity. Between these months, I traveled the world, regularly studied composition in private lessons for the
first time, and faced a sudden health scare that I feared could end my life (this issue was thankfully resolved). Simply put, the person I was when I started the piece is not the person I was when I finished the piece. Therefore, in the last few months of my work on this composition, I was fine-tuning the structure of a piece dictated by musical themes created by a past version of myself. This challenged me as a composer and forced me to reflect on my former self to understand the person who wrote those themes. Because of this, the work is a clash of two versions of myself, mirrored by a collision of two musical worlds. Precisely is about resilience, discovering the balance between persistence and fulfillment, and letting go of unresolved situations while still finding gratification. Though it is not based on one exact experience and tells no specific story, Precisely describes and reminisces on a chapter of my life. The piece begins with fragments of the music to come before a graceful string melody emerges. However, the melody soon becomes corrupted by disruptive harmonies that attempt to consume it. Eventually, these harmonies take over and ascend to a huge climax, the first sign of resolution in the composition. The climax ultimately reaches a point of explosion, leaving behind the remains of the earlier string melody as they fade into an abyss.