October 9: Price's Adoration in Mankato, Minnesota
8-5-22: On Sunday, October 9 at 3pm, the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Tamara Dworetz, will perform my arrangement for large orchestra of Florence Price's Adoration on a concert at St. Peter High School in St. Peter, Minnesota. The concert also includes works by Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov.
More information and tickets here: https://mankatosymphony.ticketleap.com/2223sheherazade/
More information and tickets here: https://mankatosymphony.ticketleap.com/2223sheherazade/
October 11: Aggie Songs performed at Oklahoma Panhandle State University
6-8-22: In 2009, Oklahoma Panhandle State University celebrated its centennial, and in my former role as music department chair there, I organized a concert to celebrate. The concert included music from 1909, as well as works celebrating OPSU's past and present. I was commissioned to write Progress through Knowledge for the combined concert band and chorus, and also made a gift of a concert band arrangement of the school songs, since the library didn't contain one and called it Aggie Songs. Now my former student David Hyrum Vaughan is the director of bands at OPSU, and he has decided to program Aggie Songs on October 11 in Hughes-Strong Auditorium, the first performance of my work there that I know about since I left in 2012.
More information here: https://www.opsu.edu/
More information here: https://www.opsu.edu/
October 16: World Premiere of Woman/Night in Cleveland
8-17-22: On Sunday, October 16 at 3pm, soprano Rebecca Freshwater and I will give the premiere performance of my cycle of Wallace Stevens poems Woman/Night on the first Cleveland Composers Guild concert of the 2022-2023 season. This premiere has been a long time coming, since I started work on this piece in 2009 and have been looking for the right combination of collaborator and event. As always, I'm excited to be performing my own music, and over the moon to get to work with Rebecca! The concert is at the Spahr Center of the First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and admission is free.
More information here: https://clevelandcomposers.com/2022-2023-season
More information here: https://clevelandcomposers.com/2022-2023-season
October 22: Price's Adoration in Marietta, Georgia
8-18-22: On Saturday, October 22 at 7pm, the Georgia Philharmonic, under the baton of Tamara Dworetz, will perform my arrangement for large orchestra of Florence Price's Adoration on a subscription concert at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia, in the Atlanta metro area.
More information and tickets here: https://georgiaphilharmonic.org/season
More information and tickets here: https://georgiaphilharmonic.org/season
Updates
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: 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
4-1-22: I've been commissioned by the Johnstone Fund for New Music as part of their collaboration with UCelli: The Columbus Cello Quartet. The work will be premiered in Fall 2023 at the Short North Stage in Columbus. I'm pleased to receive support from the Johnstone Fund again, after their funding of Moriarty's Necktie (2011) and ...into the suggestive waters... (2015).
On the horizon...
4-1-21: I have been emailing with George Carr about a possible new work for the Cleveland Trombone Collective--I can't quite believe that I've never written a piece for a bunch of trombones and no one else! Perhaps something will come of that! Some other pieces I've been thinking about include a cycle of pieces about a year in the life of Lake Erie, inspired by Tchaikovsky's The Seasons; a Carmen fantasy for baritone saxophone; and a second piano sonata.
