Music for The Champion

Premiere of live film score to accompany Charlie Chaplin’s Film The Champion (1914), performed by the Music at the Mission Chamber Players: Rhonda Bradetich, flute; Mike Corner, clarinet; Karen Shinozaki, violin; Emily Onderdonk, viola; Gianna Abondolo, cello; Katherine Lee Vessella, piano; Bill Everett, bass; and Loren Mach, drum set.

Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All

My musical setting of Dr. Maya Angelou’s poem, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, for SSA girls chorus and piano. Studio recording by the Hal Leonard music company.

The Great Indoors

A three-movement chamber music work reflecting on how we all had to deal with the pandemic, for flutes, piano, and bass. The second movement, however, is a musical depiction of the trials and tribulations of our dog, Taffy, during her daily walk.

podcast theme music

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.

flavor of the day

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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sheet music for sale

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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