Gamer Troll Loses Control for Fine Arts Association
7-13-21: The Faculty of the Fine Arts Association will give the premiere of Gamer Troll Loses Control, a tone-poem for the same instrumentation as Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, on Thursday, August 19 in Willoughby, Ohio.
7-16-21: I've added my original story to this website in anticipation of the premiere. The story serves as the program for my composition. Read it here.
Tickets available here. (You have to scroll down a fair way).
7-16-21: I've added my original story to this website in anticipation of the premiere. The story serves as the program for my composition. Read it here.
Tickets available here. (You have to scroll down a fair way).
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Premieres Big Bright Lake Blue Sky
7-13-21: My newest jazz composition, Big Bright Lake Blue Sky, will have its premiere by an octet of musicians from the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra on a concert co-presented by the Cleveland Composers Guild, at the Bop Stop on Sunday, September 19 at 7pm.
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!
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.
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.
New Works
7-13-21: At this writing, I am finishing up Gamer Troll Loses Control for the Fine Arts Association of Willoughby, Ohio, where it will be premiered by faculty members led by Michael Lund Ziegler. This 9-minute work is based on characters created by FAA art students, and is scored for the same instrumentation as Saint-Saens' Carnvial of the Animals, which will appear on the same concert as the premiere performance in August.
On the horizon...
7-13-2021: My plan for Fall 2021 is to return to my symphony, which was delayed by COVID, with an eye to having it ready for one or more premieres in 2022 or 2023. 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. I will also be writing a new work for concert band for the Lakeland Civic Band in memory of their founding director Charles Frank.
