Ophelia Songs at Cleveland Public Theater
6-26-19: ContempOpera Cleveland will reprise their May performance of Ophelia Songs by soprano Andrea Annelli on September 7 at Cleveland Public Theatre's Pandemonium 2019 gala. An expensive ticket, but for a great cause!
Maximum Impact at SCI Region V in Illinois
8-7-19: My first work for jazz big band, Maximum Impact, has been accepted for performance at the Society of Composers Region V Conference at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois, October 11-12.
Premiere of And I Live With the Fiction That I Never Get Mad
8-7-19: Loren Reach-Henz and Ben Malkevitch will give the world premiere performance of And I Live with the Fiction That I Never Get Mad, a song for baritone voice and piano setting poetry by Reach-Henz' grandmother Janice Reach on the first concert of 2019-2020 presented by the Cleveland Composers Guild on Sunday, October 13, at Drinko Recital Hall at Cleveland State University at 3pm. Admission is free, and the concert also includes works by seven other Guild members.
Recording of Lady Glides on the Moon in Progress
5-3-19: Aaron Durst, director of bands and saxophone professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, has been in the studio recording the saxophone version of Lady Glides on the Moon. Look for more news about this project soon!
New Works
5-3-19: I'm going to be writing an orchestral work for the Westminster College orchestra, directed by Melinda Crawford-Perttu, for premiere in 2019-2020. Check the blog for details as that project unfolds!
6-26-19: I'm in the process of composing my first new work for band in several years, a fanfare for the Lakeland Civic Band, directed by Dan Crain, to be premiered on their December 2019 concert
6-26-19: I'm in the process of composing my first new work for band in several years, a fanfare for the Lakeland Civic Band, directed by Dan Crain, to be premiered on their December 2019 concert
On the horizon...
I'm also hoping to organize a local premiere for Place of the Sea Mountains, and to that end, I've recruited trumpeter Brian DePoy and violinist Natalia DePoy. This piece is about Willowick resident Robert Manry's solo crossing of the Atlantic in his 13.5-foot boat Tinkerbelle, so it's important that it have a local presence.
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!
