Works
Shileta’s works explore music as a space for memory, storytelling, and community. Across concert music, media scoring, and interdisciplinary projects, her creative practice connects historical consciousness with performance, education, and public engagement.
Concert Works
In Remembrance is a concert work created for New England Conservatory’s Coretta Scott King Tribute Concert. Written for strings, guitar, and voice, the piece reflects on memory, grief, legacy, and the act of honoring those who came before us. Its sound world brings together tenderness, reflection, and collective remembrance.
Be Free is a vocal and chamber work created for Castle of Our Skins’ Black Student Union Intercollegiate Fellowship concert. The piece explores liberation, self-definition, and the desire to move toward freedom with honesty, strength, and care. Through voice and strings, it creates a space for reflection, release, and becoming.
All That I Am is a chamber work first created for Castle of Our Skins’ Black Student Union Intercollegiate Fellowship concert and later selected for New England Conservatory’s Coretta Scott King Tribute Concert. The piece reflects on identity, inheritance, and the fullness of selfhood, using intimate string textures to hold both vulnerability and strength.
Amigo is a chamber work for string trio that began as a public concert piece through Berklee’s Society of Composers and was later selected for Berklee’s Composers Showcase. The work carries a spirit of connection, warmth, and movement, reflecting friendship, memory, and the emotional language that can live inside small ensemble writing.
Media Scoring
Guardians of Acure is an original theme created for 1906 Edutainment Studios. The project uses music, animation, and storytelling to support health education for young students.
Entanglement is an original orchestral score written for a comedic short film by Willonious “King Willonious” Thatcher. The score brings together orchestral color, media scoring, and character-driven storytelling.
Interdisciplinary / Educational Projects
Alchemist Garden is an interdisciplinary video game project developed through the Born Global Foundation. As the sole composer for the intern group, Shileta created music for a project exploring biomimicry, sound, biodiversity, and ecological imagination.
Through 1906 Edutainment Studios, Shileta composed and produced music for educational entertainment projects, including health-based animated materials for school communities. This work deepened her interest in how music can support learning, storytelling, and social impact.