Upcoming Performances
March 20-23: Summer Night, Windows Open at Denison TUTTI Festival
12-31-2023: A biennial festival that has hosted my music in the past, Denison University's TUTTI Festival, will once again include my work, this time, Summer Night, Windows Open (2023), in a repeat performance by UCelli. More details to come on specific scheduling.
April 6-7: Mysterious Marvels in Williamsburg, Virginia
12-31-2023: My 2020 band work Mysterious Marvels will be included as part of the program of the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Conference, hosted at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, a school I almost attended. Looking forward to my first in-person CMS conference since 2019! The concert will be on Saturday, April 6.
April 21: Short Psalms to premiere in Cleveland
2-14-24: The world premiere of my Short Psalms, a set of five settings for contralto and piano, will take place on a Cleveland Composers Guild concert on Sunday, April 21 at 3pm at West Shore Unitarian Church in Rocky River, Ohio. The performers are the commissioning singer, Heidi Skok, and pianist Randall Fusco. The texts are, well, short psalms: five of the shortest in the King James Version of The Bible.
April 27: And I Live With the Fiction That I Never Get Mad in Kearney, Nebraska
1-10-2024: Baritone Andrew White and pianist Nathan Buckner will present my 2018 song And I Live With the Fiction That I Never Get Mad as part of the University of Nebraska-Kearney New Music Festival on Saturday, April 27 (time TBD). If memory serves, this is the first performance of my music in the state of Nebraska, completing the Texas-North Dakota tier!
April 30: One like a hundred in Wake Forest, North Carolina
1-26-2024: I've completed my work One like a hundred for LaSaundra Booth and the Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra The premiere performance is slated for Tuesday, April 30. More info to come!
May 19: New Work for Composers Guild Junior Concert
1-26-2024: I'm working with Pearl Zhu, a young pianist here in Cleveland on a solo pianist as my latest contribution to the Cleveland Composers Guild Creativity: Learning Through Experience program. The premiere will take place at the Music Settlement in Cleveland's University Circle on Sunday, May 19 at 3pm. Watch this spot for more details!
Updates
Also in the South, Tamara Dworetz will be programming my large-orchestra version of Florence Price's Adoration on concerts of the Georgia State University Orchestras in Spring 2024.
New Works
8-16-2023: I've just completed a new version of Child's Play, from 2020. The original was for bass clarinet duo, and this new version is for woodwind quintet. I'm also now in the process of finishing up Short Psalms, a song cycle for contralto and piano for Heidi Skok.
1-26-2024: My first 2024 composition is Minute for Seconds, a quick piece for brass trio (trumpet, horn, and trombone). Details to follow!
1-26-2024: My first 2024 composition is Minute for Seconds, a quick piece for brass trio (trumpet, horn, and trombone). Details to follow!
On the horizon...
8-16-2023: Dr. Matthew Swihart, a classmate from my CCM days, has commissioned a sonata-length piece for trumpet (with possible doubling instruments) and piano. Matt is on the music faculty of Austin Community College in Texas, and has a great YouTube channel. He has been working on mastering a four-valve flugelhorn that may make an appearance in the piece I write for him.