New Works
I've been commissioned by violinist Galo Arboleda to compose a new work for violin and piano, to be premiered during 2017-2018. This will be a continuation of a projected series of pieces for solo string instruments with piano that began with 2015's Meditation for 'cello and piano. The working title for this piece is On a Cleaer Night You Can See Forever, and it is inspired by the Shafran Planetarium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. I am hopeful that the premiere performance will take place on a Cleveland Composers Guild concert at the museum on November 26, 2017.
The rest of 2017 is going to be busy for composing! I will be writing a piece for Troika Melange, an ensemble headed by Alan Wenger at the University of Central Missouri, for the intriguing combination of trumpet, violin, and piano. I'm starting on a longer piece for soprano Carrie Hennessey based on The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and incorporating ideas from the Great American Songbook. And, closer to home, I've been asked by Ed Michaels, of Lakeland Jazz Impact, to write an original big band chart.
On the horizon...
After many years, I finally have (almost) arranged for a performance of Woman/Night, my song cycle on Wallace Stevens poetry for soprano and trombone. Rachel Ware Carlton will be coming to Lakeland Community College for a performance during Fall 2017!
I've completed my solo piano piece Sisters in Stone, inspired by the statuary collection at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, which I visited on my trip there in February 2017. More details on my blog here. Dianna Anderson, who gave the premiers of my Starry Wanderers and my piano sonata has signed on for the premiere! More details to follow!
In terms of performances, there are the usual conference and festival submissions out there. I'm happy to provide perusal materials to anyone interested in anything! Let me know what piece you'd be interested in!
I will be presenting my Twenty Views of the Trombone throughout Ohio in 2017-2018, beginning with a performance at Lakeland Community College in the fall. Specifics are still to be determined.
...into the suggestive waters... had a transcendent first performance in November 2015, and I would love to send it out to other ensembles in 2016-2017.
I've completed my solo piano piece Sisters in Stone, inspired by the statuary collection at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, which I visited on my trip there in February 2017. More details on my blog here. Dianna Anderson, who gave the premiers of my Starry Wanderers and my piano sonata has signed on for the premiere! More details to follow!
In terms of performances, there are the usual conference and festival submissions out there. I'm happy to provide perusal materials to anyone interested in anything! Let me know what piece you'd be interested in!
I will be presenting my Twenty Views of the Trombone throughout Ohio in 2017-2018, beginning with a performance at Lakeland Community College in the fall. Specifics are still to be determined.
...into the suggestive waters... had a transcendent first performance in November 2015, and I would love to send it out to other ensembles in 2016-2017.
