liberosis was written for The Hartt School's "The Uncertainty of Fate Festival ," which ran from May 1st-5th in 2021.

Instrumentation: Violin, Viola

Duration: approx. 3 min. 

Program Notes: liberosis is defined as “the desire to care less about things” by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a website which coins words for emotions that don’t have a descriptive term. My desire to care less was brought to the forefront in 2020 when quarantine gave me the time to notice patterns in my old work. I have never written a piece about the joy of falling in love, only multiple works on the catharsis of falling out of it. liberosis brings motives from five of these previous works into a more anxious context, where, together, they search for a release from the need to care. 

Premiere: liberosis was premiered at Uncertainty of Fate: Breaking Apart/Coming Together I on May 2nd, 2021