The Great Indoors was commissioned by Music at the Mission and supported by a grant from Intermusic SF. It was premiered in 2021 at Mission San Jose, California; performed at the Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay; and recorded by Rhonda Bradetich, flute, Katherine Lee, piano, and Bill Everett, bass. The Great Indoors is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts.

The first movement, Going Home and Staying There, concerns the peculiar nature of how COVID-19 interrupted my own family's life, bring our daughter home from college and keeping our son home from school as well. We loved having everyone home more, but not given the circumstances. . . . The second movement, Another Walk (Dog Encounter), describes the only outdoor activity our family could count on practically every day - walking our very small dog, Taffy. Taffy is a cross between a Yorkshire terrier and a chihuahua, and weighs only 10 pounds. Every time Taffy encounters another dog, she gets riled up and charges her enemy. The third movement, Endemic, describes this disease which it now seems will never go away, with a very brief ritornello that comes back several times in the piano.

This studio recording was performed by Rhonda Bradetich, Katherine Lee, and William Everett, for Music at the Mission in Fremont, California - where I serve as composer in residence.

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VIRAL LOVE is a podcast about the resiliencies of Chinatowns across the United States—particularly amidst the racial violence of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

​While phrases like “racism is a virus” or “hate is a virus” have gained popularity over the course of the pandemic, VIRAL LOVE hopes to make room for joy by highlighting stories of community, resilience, and peace building instead. Join Xin Sheng Project co-founder Sabrina Lin as she explores Chinatown as more than just a place with cheap food and hardworking immigrants trying to chase the “American dream,” but a place with stories and dramas of its own, and a place that we might look to as a microcosm of class and race tensions in America as we move towards becoming a majority-minority country. Click here to hear the podcast.

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animated short created by Shawn Abernathy, score by Mark Fish

Ferdinando el Toro

(Ferdinand the Bull, for woodwind quintet, in spanish)

The first few minutes of my own piece and other woodwind quintet music narrated in Spanish,

performed by Quinteto Respira and narrated by Ana Gallegos - Valladolid, Spain

Talk to me

an award-winning documentary by Vanessa Kaneshiro about families with autistic children. Piano score by Mark Fish

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If you would be interested in commissioning an arrangement or original work for your group, please use the CONTACT page to send me a note. Because I have worked extensively as a composer, orchestral conductor, choral conductor, and chamber musician - and because I spend countless hours on all of my creative work - I try to be extremely detailed (but hopefully not overly so) in my arrangements and original work. I hope you find that this is true when you look at and listen to my pieces and arrangements. Below is a list of published works, all of which are available for sale through different publishers:

• Ave Maria (Schubert) for voice and string quartet, published on ArrangeMe

• El Noy de la Mare* (Catalan folksong) for string quartet, published on ArrangeMe

• El Noy de la Mare* (Catalan folksong) for string orchestra, published on ArrangeMe

• Funeral March for a Marionette** (Gounod) for string orchestra and optional percussion, published on ArrangeMe

• Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All (text by Maya Angelou, original music by Mark Fish) for SSA chorus, published by Hal Leonard

• Money (Pink Floyd) for string quartet, published on ArrangeMe

• Mother Goose Suite (Ma mere l’oye by Maurice Ravel) for cello and piano, published by Editions Durand

• Pollution (by Tom Lehrer) for SA chorus, published by Hal Leonard

• Salsa Picante al Lado for woodwind quintet (original music by Mark Fish), published on ArrangeMe

• Trepak* from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) for string quartet, published on ArrangeMe

• Us and Them (Pink Floyd) for string quartet, published on ArrangeMe

• Vegas (Doja Cat) for soprano solo + SATB a cappella chorus, published on ArrangeMe

• Victoria’s Secret by JAX for alto solo + a cappella chorus, published on ArrangeMe

* often performed at winter holiday concerts and Christmas services

** often performed at Halloween concerts

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