September 10: Price Adoration in Des Moines
9-8-2023: The Des Moines Symphony, under the baton of Joshua Barlage and Timothy McMillan will perform my arrangement of Florence Price's Adoration on a free concert at Riverview Park at 1pm as part of the Together Through Sound Festival. The concert also includes the orchestra version Olivia Kieffer's ...and then the Universe exploded, which was created for and premiered by the Lakeland Civic Orchestra in 2019.
October 10: Summer Night, Windows Open Premiere in Columbus
4-13-2023: I've been commissioned by the Johnstone Fund for New Music as part of their collaboration with UCelli: The Columbus Cello Quartet. The new work, titled Summer Night, Windows Open, will be premiered on October 10 at the Short North Stage in Columbus. I'm pleased to receive support from the Johnstone Fund for a third time, after their generous funding of Moriarty's Necktie (2011) and ...into the suggestive waters... (2015).
Updates
4-13-2023: The Carmen Fantasy for baritone saxophone and piano is in the hands of its soloist, Thomas Lempner, and I'm planning to start looking for places for it to happen in 2023-2024, probably on concerts of the Cleveland Composers Guild.
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: 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!
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. The texts are, well, short psalms: the five shortest in the King James Version of The Bible.
On the horizon...
8-16-2023: I have two projects to look forward to that have materialized in the last couple of weeks. First, Dr. LaSaundra Booth, who conducted my arrangement of Florence Price's Adoration in Los Angeles in July, has commissioned an original piece for string orchestra for her home ensemble, the Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra.
At the same time, 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.
At the same time, 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.
