News

September 2024 :

Text & audio of new poems & prose-poems added to the writing page.

May 2024 :

Several poems & prose-poems added to the writing page.

October 2023 :

Prelude & Nocturnes were premiered Sunday, September 17th in an event presented by RVA Baroque. Then the same evening, in an event presented by Classical Revolution RVA.

April 2023 :

New poems added to the writing page.

Also, The State Of Things (Improvisation Journal #1) added to the music page.

July 2022 :

A concert of my chamber compositions was performed by RVA Baroque at the Branch Museum in Richmond, Virginia!

September 2021 :

The writing page is finally up & running. Check out a selection of ten short poems, many with recorded readings!

Two Nocturnes were premiered Sunday, September 19th at Classical Revolution RVA’s Incarnations event.

May 2021 :

Cellist James Alexander premiered my composition Poem on a Landscape (2019) in a webcast performance!

January 2021 :

Percussionist Kevin Zetina premiered my new composition Two Images on Sunday, January 17 as part of the 1:2:1 composer/performer intensive workshop led by Nick Photinos with Molly Barth, Doug Perkins & Nina C. Young.

November 2020 :

Video of Vicky Chow’s Waylands premier performance added to the music page.

March 2020 :

A new playlist of experimental folk performances has been added to the music page.

I’m also totally recoding the website, with tables converted to divs (making my way into the 21st century!) & many other improvements.

August 2019 :

Myra Hinrichs & Carrie Frey performed several of my violin/viola duos in Chicago, IL.

April 2019 :

More resources added to the international melody archives section.

March 2019 :

New rehearsal recording of Elegy-Meditation for tenor saxophone, viola & piano-percussion added to the music page.

October 2017 :

New pieces added to the writing page.

September 2017 :

New collections are in the works for piano solo, percussion solo & for chamber quartet.

August 2017 :

I’ve just returned from the 12th annual Bang on a Can Summer Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts where I had the privilege of working closely with some of the most exciting comtemporary composers & musicians for three weeks.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the crowdfunding campaign. I am so grateful.

(image from bangonacan.org)

June 2017 :

New composition recording added to the youtube channel.

third Monophony Study played on a custom 8-string guitar

May 2017 :

I’ve been selected as one of nine composition fellows for Bang on a Can’s 2017 Summer Festival!

(image from bangonacan.org)

The three-week festival takes place at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. In addition to the composition fellows, thirty-three musicians from twelve countries are also participating. The composition faculty consists of Michael Gordon (honored by Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters), David Lang (Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Yale faculty) & Julia Wolfe (MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize, NYU faculty).

May 2017 :

My Passing the Pick & Bow students & I are featured on CBS Sunday Morning!