Black Run is a work for solo cello by Swedish composer and cellist Svante Henryson. I recorded this at Dogtown Studio in Grand Rapids as part of a three song project in April 2025. You can buy the music here.
O Love is a choral work with solo cello by Elaine Hagenberg. This is one of the most popular works for cello and choir right now, and it seems like a year doesn’t go by where I don’t play it somewhere! This is a recording with the Hope College Chapel Choir conducted by Eric Reyes at a service during the 2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship.
CRUSH is a cello octet composed by my colleague Jules Pegram, a DMA composition candidate at the University of Michigan at the time. Jules is now a well-established composer whose works have been performed by dozens of orchestras and bands around the country. The other two movements can also be found on Youtube.
Olivier Messiaen’s Louange a l’Eternite de Jesus, the cello and piano movement from Quartet for the End of Time.
Virtuosic metal song Through the Fire and Flames arranged for Cello Quartet, performed at Calvin College in 2016 with Josh Ruiter, Patrick Jonker, and Luke Tilma.
A self-produced recording of a cello duet arrangement of Survivor’s rock song Eye of the Tiger.
Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht with Teagan Faran and Lauren Pulcipher on violin, Ryan McDonald and Aimée McAnulty on viola, and Victor Minke Huls on cello. Extra music at the end of the piece composed by Teagan Faran. Recorded in Ann Arbor, MI.