Upcoming Performances
September 25: Short Psalms on the Radio
6-29-2024: On September 25, Heidi Skok's April 27 recital will be broadcast on WLCV's program Ovations at 8pm Eastern time. It included works by Mahler and Wagner, along with the second performance of my Short Psalms with pianist Randall Fusco. Listen on FM 90.3 WCLV if you are in Northeast Ohio, or on the web here: https://www.ideastream.org/show/ovations
December 6: Christmas Eve for flute choir
6-29-2024: On Friday, December 6, the Lakeland Civic Flute Choir, under the direction of Judith Elias, will premiere a new version of Christmas Eve for four-part flute choir and celesta on their concert at the Lakeland Community College Rodehorst Performing Arts Center. My esteeemed colleague and predecessor as Lakeland's music department chair, Dr. Robert Brown will perform on the celesta, including an improvised cadenza. The concert beings at 7:30pm. Tickets and information at lakelandcc.edu/arts.
Updates
6-29-2024: My current work in progress is the second in my series of Meditations inspired by the collection of the same name by Marcus Aurelius. This piece is for trumpet/flugelhorn and piano and is for Texas-based trumpeter and fellow CCM alum Matthew Swihart. Matt is on the music faculty of Austin Community College in Texas, and has a great YouTube channel. I hope to have it finished this summer for a premiere sometime in 2024-2025.
New Works
6-29-2024: In June, I've completed two projects:
First, a new version of my choral setting of Christmas Eve for flute choir and celesta for Judith Elias and the Lakeland Civic Flute Choir. This is a reworking of my 2021 a cappella SATB setting of the poem of the same name by Ella Higginson.
Second, a "suite" created from my 2016 organ cycle Seven Last Words. The original was seven pieces intended to be performed through the Lenten season and lasted twenty-four minutes. This new version attempts to compress that into the six-minute time frame specified by the upcoming Cleveland Composers Guild-American Guild of Organists collaboration. Quite a challenge!
First, a new version of my choral setting of Christmas Eve for flute choir and celesta for Judith Elias and the Lakeland Civic Flute Choir. This is a reworking of my 2021 a cappella SATB setting of the poem of the same name by Ella Higginson.
Second, a "suite" created from my 2016 organ cycle Seven Last Words. The original was seven pieces intended to be performed through the Lenten season and lasted twenty-four minutes. This new version attempts to compress that into the six-minute time frame specified by the upcoming Cleveland Composers Guild-American Guild of Organists collaboration. Quite a challenge!
On the horizon...
6-29-2024: In 2019, I wrote half a symphony, and I'm tired of having written only half a symphony. Still thinking about making into a whole symphony. Somebody make me!