Points of Departure

For clarinet/bass clarinet, harp, viola, and cello*
Performed by Luis Lechuga, Kaitlin Miller, Julia Moss, and Olivia Marckx
Theo Trevisan, conductor
March 3, 2024, Los Angeles, California

Various life events caused me to process a lot of trauma and grief in 2022. I wrote Points of Departure in early 2023 while I was questioning the nonlinearity of trauma and grief, the difficulty of letting go, and the extent of possible causality between one's compositions and one's personal life.