Premiered Nov. 10th, 2025 at Baylor University - 

Mary Gibbs Jones Hall

With so much new in life,  it feels easy to be lost. Yet there is a kind of poetry in that lostness that emerges when the ground beneath you is shifting. Looking at change and uncertainty, it is tempting to seek comfort in what is familiar— to structure—to the safety of crossing the same bridge back and forth. But what happens if I step forward into the vastness of possibility? What would wait for me if I dared to leap?

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Jericho Brown’s poem Crossing gave voice to these questions. The poem begins with the weight of repetition, the act of moving back and forth, in step with the sun’s rise and fall. Yet by its end, it turns outward toward something limitless. That shift from pattern into revelation became a blueprint for this piece. The music starts in gestures of return, circling and retracing, before opening into something freer. I found myself drawn again and again to Brown’s insistence that there is endurance, more than bravery, there is the leap.

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The One Who Leaps is my anthem for this moment in my life, a call to be audacious. I invite listeners to wonder what waits on the other side of the familiar, and to imagine their own leap.

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- Jaylin Vinson