Suite for String Orchestra Returns to Denison University
3-21-17: After a fantastic performance at the Denison TUTTI Festival in February, Andrew Strietelmeier and the Denison University Orchestra will reprise my Suite for String Orchestra on Saturday, April 22 at 7pm in Swasey Chapel on the campus of Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Admission is free. Also on the concert are Kip Jones' LDMT and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. More information here.
Transmissions and Transmutations (BLF) at the GCFS
2-21-17: Flutist Linda White will reprise last summer's premiere of Transmissions and Transmutations (BLF) on the Greater Cleveland Flute Society's Composer Connection concert at 7pm on Sunday, April 23 at Judson Manor in Cleveland, Ohio. This is second time my work has been featured on this annual concert, following a 2013 performance of Nod a Don.
First Performance of Gravity Waves
1-18-17: I have been privileged to be commissioned for the third year in a row to compose a piece for the Cleveland Composers Guild's Creativity: Learning Through Experience project. This year, I have been working with clarinetist Myles Macke, age 12, on a short piece for clarinet and piano, inspired by our mutual interest in cutting-edge science. The result, Gravity Waves, will receive its first performance at the 25th Annual Creativity: Learning Through Experience concert, sponsored by the Cleveland Composers Guild and the Music Settlement. The concert takes place on Sunday, May 7 at 3pm, at Harkness Chapel on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. Admission is free and a light reception will follow.
New Works
I'm currently at work on a piece for piano, tentatively titled 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. I'm drawing inspiration from four life-size statues from the 19th century. More details on my blog here.
I've completed a fanfare commission, A Clarion Voice is Ringing, for the University of Dayton to be performed by their faculty brass quintet at the installation of their new president in April. Special thanks to Chad Arnow for making this commission possible.
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.
I've completed a fanfare commission, A Clarion Voice is Ringing, for the University of Dayton to be performed by their faculty brass quintet at the installation of their new president in April. Special thanks to Chad Arnow for making this commission possible.
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.
On the horizon...
In terms of performances, there are the usual conference and festival submissions out there. I'm especially on the lookout for two pieces--my Five Rhythmic Etudes for orchestra, and my song cycle Woman/Night for soprano Rachel Ware Carlton and tenor trombone (I've long wanted to play the premiere myself, but that isn't a necessity). I'm happy to provide perusal materials to anyone interested in anything! Let me know what piece you'd be interested in!
...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.
