November 21: Majestic Fanfare for the Ohio Valley Majestic Brass
7-13-21: The Ohio Valley Majestic Brass, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, commissioned a fanfare from me, and will be performing the result, Majestic Fanfare, throughout their 2021-2022 season of Sunday morning worship presentations. I had the privilege of rehearing the piece with them on July 11, and if you can hear them in concert, make time to do so!
UPDATE 7-29-21: The first performance of Majestic Fanfare will be as a part of worship at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Bromley, Kentucky on Sunday, November 21 at their 10:45am service.
UPDATE 7-29-21: The first performance of Majestic Fanfare will be as a part of worship at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Bromley, Kentucky on Sunday, November 21 at their 10:45am service.
December 10 & 12: New Choral Work for Oberlin Choral Spectrum
10-3-21: Oberlin Choral Spectrum will give the first performances of a new short piece for unaccompanied mixed chorus on December 10 and 12 at the Carnegie Center at the Lorain Historical Society. This piece is a setting of Ella Higginson's "Christmas Eve," a wistful meditation on that "after Christmas" feeling. It's a real privilege to write again for a group of musicians that helped me get started on my journey as a composer: their recording of The Beatitudes was part of my graduate school applications.
January 12: Twenty Views of the Trombone at Fine Arts Association
8-4-21: On January 12, 2022, I will perform my unaccompanied trombone work Twenty Views of the Trombone in a Faculty Artist Recital at the Fine Arts Association in Willoughby, Ohio. This will be the first complete performance of this work in Northeast Ohio, and the first complete performance of it since the premiere in Atlanta in 2017.
Purchase tickets here: https://www.fineartsassociation.org/artistrecitalseries/
Purchase tickets here: https://www.fineartsassociation.org/artistrecitalseries/
February 13: Florence Price Adoration by Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra
10-21-21: On February 13, 2022, the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra will perform my arrangement of Florence Price's Adoration under the baton of their music director Antoine Clark in Oberlin, Ohio.
More information here: https://www.noyo.org/
More information here: https://www.noyo.org/
May 6: Lakeland Civic Flute Choir plays Nod a Don
10-21-21: On May 6, 2022, the Lakeland Civic Flute Choir, under the direction of Judith Elias, will perform my 2013 piece Nod a Don. I'm very excited to have this piece on a concert of Lakeland Community College's newest civic ensemble.
More information and ticket purchases here: https://www.lakelandcc.edu/arts
More information and ticket purchases here: https://www.lakelandcc.edu/arts
Updates
7-13-21: Justine Myers, a fine oboist, gave the premiere of Essay in Teal for solo oboe on a livestream concert of the Cleveland Composers Guild in March 2021. Watch here.
7-13-21: Power Play, for solo piano, will be part of the Cleveland Composers Guild's Creativity: Learning Through Experience Concert, recorded at the Bop Stop in Cleveland in June, and slated for a virtual premiere later this year. The pianist was Paul "Pasha" Zhdankov. Watch here.
7-13-21: Power Play, for solo piano, will be part of the Cleveland Composers Guild's Creativity: Learning Through Experience Concert, recorded at the Bop Stop in Cleveland in June, and slated for a virtual premiere later this year. The pianist was Paul "Pasha" Zhdankov. Watch here.
New Works
8-4-21: I have two large-scale projects for the next few months. I hope to finish my symphony, which I started in 2019 and put on hold during the COVID pandemic. With any luck, there will be a premiere sometime in 2023. I will also be writing a new work for concert band for the Lakeland Civic Band in memory of their founding director Charles Frank, to be premiered in late 2022 at a concert in his honor. It will be conducted by Daniel Crain, and feature a textless vocal part for mezzo-soprano Heidi Skok.
On the horizon...
7-13-2021: I will also be composing a short piece for carillon for a collaboration between the Cleveland Composers Guild and the Church of the Covenant. Some other pieces I've been thinking about include a cycle of pieces about a year in the life of Lake Erie, inspired by Tchaikovsky's The Seasons; a Carmen fantasy for baritone saxophone; a second piano sonata.
