October 10: Summer Night, Windows Open Premiere in Columbus
4-13-2023: I've been commissioned by the Johnstone Fund for New Music as part of their collaboration with UCelli: The Columbus Cello Quartet. The new work, titled Summer Night, Windows Open, will be premiered on October 10 at the Short North Stage in Columbus. I'm pleased to receive support from the Johnstone Fund for a third time, after their generous funding of Moriarty's Necktie (2011) and ...into the suggestive waters... (2015).
July 15: Price's Adoration in LA
4-13-2023: The YOLA National Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Dr. LaSaundra Booth will perform my arrangement for large orchestra of Florence Price's Adoration on July 15 in the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. More information at https://www.laphil.com/learn/yola/yola-national-festival.
May 14: Bay Village Barn Dance Premiere in Cleveland
4-13-2023: Bay Village Barn Dance, my piece for flutist Miya DeBolt and violinist Rachael Ploenzke in my mostly-annual contribution to the Cleveland Composers Guild Creativity: Learning Through Experience program, in which Composers Guild members compose new works for young musicians will have its first performance on Sunday, May 14 at the Cleveland Music School Settlement in University Circle. Admission is free, but arrive early!
More information at clevelandcomposers.com.
More information at clevelandcomposers.com.
Updates
4-13-2023: The Carmen Fantasy for baritone saxophone and piano is in the hands of its soloist, Thomas Lempner, and I'm planning to start looking for places for it to happen in 2023-2024, probably on concerts of the Cleveland Composers Guild.
7-10-2022: After a fantastic first performance by Antoine Clark leading the Cincinnati Symphony, my large orchestra arrangement of Florence B. Price's 1951 organ work, Adoration is now available for sale on this website. That brings the total to three versions I have created of this piece for Antoine, and he has given fantastic readings of all three. Whether your ensemble is a ten-player chamber orchestra, or a small or large symphony orchestra, there is a version for you! Click over to the Orchestra page on this site to check out pricing and preview scores for all three versions!
7-10-2022: In December 2021, Ted Williams and Choral Spectrum gave fantastic performances of my Christmas Eve, setting a short poem by Ella Higginson. I've created a score-follow video here. I may have to do both more choral music and more score-follow videos!
7-10-2022: After a fantastic first performance by Antoine Clark leading the Cincinnati Symphony, my large orchestra arrangement of Florence B. Price's 1951 organ work, Adoration is now available for sale on this website. That brings the total to three versions I have created of this piece for Antoine, and he has given fantastic readings of all three. Whether your ensemble is a ten-player chamber orchestra, or a small or large symphony orchestra, there is a version for you! Click over to the Orchestra page on this site to check out pricing and preview scores for all three versions!
7-10-2022: In December 2021, Ted Williams and Choral Spectrum gave fantastic performances of my Christmas Eve, setting a short poem by Ella Higginson. I've created a score-follow video here. I may have to do both more choral music and more score-follow videos!
New Works
4-13-2023: When in doubt, arrange! I've started a short orchestra suite of dances from Praetorius' Terpsichore that I think will feature in the 2023-2024 Lakeland Civic Orchestra season. I'm inspired in part by Bob Margolis' work for wind ensemble, and I can't imagine that mine will be quite so wild, but his work was my introduction to the music in the first place.
On the horizon...
2-13-2023: The horizon is mostly empty at the moment, and I'm OK with that: I've accepted that composing comes in fairly cyclical ways, and the challenge of managing multiple projects and deadlines occasionally gives way to clear skies. On the performance front, I don't really have a slate of confirmed performances lined up the way I always like to see. In some ways, I'm reaping the results of my decision in March 2020 to slow down for a while in the face of COVID, and the additional difficulties many of us have faced with finding commissions and performances, and generally doing the connecting work that makes those things happen. You get energy out of a system when you put energy in, and I truthfully have been putting less energy in over the last couple of years.
So: I'm putting two lists on my blog. First, a list of pieces that are ready for more attention from performers. Second, a list of ideas for pieces I'd like to write. If you're interested, slide over there and see if there's something for you or your group.
So: I'm putting two lists on my blog. First, a list of pieces that are ready for more attention from performers. Second, a list of ideas for pieces I'd like to write. If you're interested, slide over there and see if there's something for you or your group.
