Many of Brian's compositions have received national and international recognition, including two second place prizes and a first prize from the MTNA Young Artist Composition Competitions, two Honorable Mentions from the International Robert Helps Composition Competitions and one from the Second International Lepo Sumera Composition Competition in Tallinn, Estonia, a finalist prize in the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Composition Competition in Brussels, a finalist in the 4th International Haifa Composers Composition Competition in Haifa, Israel, a recipient of the 2009/2010 Wainwright Prize, a winner of the Boston University Soloists Composition Competition, recipient of numerous ASCAP Plus awards, admission for the UpBeat Ensemble in Milna Croatia, and a finalist award in the Second International Competition for Young Composers named after Nicolay Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory. Brian has collaborated and recieved commissions from ALEA III, Xanthos Ensemble, JACK Quartet , Balletik Duo, RUSQuartet, New England String Quartet, Yevgeny Kutik, and the Grammy Award winning ensemble Orchestra of Our Time.His music has been released by record label Marquis Classics and broadcast on NPR, All Things Considered with Robert Siegel, New England Public Radio, WGBH, WHRB Harvard, Russian Television Network of America (RTN), and Italy's Radio Taukay online radio for contemporary music.The music contained on this CD was composed between the months of March 2014 and February 2015. While composing these pieces I spent a lot of time thinking about the fortuitous artistic and creative inspirations we experience and how these moments temporarily alter our perception of consciousness. The voyage and exploration of a creative idea is an escape from reality, a trip within one’s own mind, a transcendental excursion louder and more intense than any worldly temporal experience. It is what gives meaning to life, adds color, concept, and design to canvas, and connects us with something bigger than ourselves. The intense lyricism and rhythmic continuity of the works on this CD is my poetic and philosophical conceptualization of this intimate experience