Excited beyond words that the New Conductors Orchestra will play my orchestral work Cathedral Grove in NYC, February 11-12, 2023!
From the NCO’s website:
Our concert series, "The Mission: New Conductors, New Composers", reflects our goals of providing opportunities for emerging conducting talent and featuring the works of up-and-coming contemporary composers. In addition to works by John WIlliams and David Diamond, we will present New York premieres (and one U.S. premiere) of pieces by Peter Longworth, Katherine Saxon, Michael Rosin, Sam Wu and Daniel Godsil, selected from several hundred works submitted from around the world in response to our "call for scores." At the podium will be Dr. Iantheia Calhoun, Andrew A. Hill, Eric Juneau and Dr. Mark Powell.
I'm so excited and honored that a movement of my dissertation composition (a string quartet written for the amazing @Spektral Quartet) will be published in the upcoming Society of Composers, Inc. Journal of Scores! This was also my first professional score I engraved with Dorico...not bad for a first go!!!
#Dorico #MadeWithDorico #spektralquartet
I'm excited to share that I accepted the position of full-time music faculty at Columbia College in Sonora, CA! I’m teaching music theory, technology, history, teaching guitar and piano lessons, and directing the Symphony of the Sierras, in addition to forming the Columbia College New Music Ensemble.
I think it's a great fit for me, and we're ecstatic that we are staying in California...it will be especially great to be so close to Yosemite!
I’m happy to announce that my quartet Aeropittura received an Honorable Mention in Illinois State University’s Red Note Composition Competition!
There were 318 anonymous submissions from 33 nations around the world.
My work Cosmographia has been announced as a winner of the 2019 Stuart R. Gerber prize. The piece was composed for Ensemble Dal Niente in 2018.
I’m extremely excited to announce that my music is now available to purchase at BabelScores of Paris! Click here to check it out…
I’m thrilled to be hard at work on a new piece for the twice Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet! My piece will be for string quartet and video projection, and will be premiered at the 2020 Taproot New Music Festival in California.
My new orchestral piece Cathedral Grove was selected as the winner of the 2019 UCDSO Composition Prize. The premiere took place on June 1, 2019 at the Mondavi Center, under the direction of Maestro Christian Baldini. Here is an interview I did with Dr. Baldini about this piece: (LINK)
I’m extremely excited that my quartet Aeropittura has been awarded the 2018 Donald Aird Prize from San Francisco-based chamber ensemble Earplay! The prize comes with a $1000 award and a performance in San Francisco in March 2018.
I’m thrilled to be selected as a featured guest composer at the upcoming 2019 WIU New Music Festival in Macomb, Illinois, March 3-5. My piece Ianarius for solo violin, which I wrote for Miranda Cuckson, will be performed by WIU faculty violinist Julieta Mihai
My orchestral overture Streamliner was selected as a finalist in the Reno Pops Orchestra’s Composer’s Night call for scores. The work was commissioned by the National Railroad Hall of Fame and premiered by the Knox-Galesburg Symphony.
I’m extremely honored that my saxophone quartet Praxinoscope was chosen as a finalist in the 2018 Red Note Composition Competition in the Chamber Ensemble category. It was one of only nineteen finalists selected for the final round of judging, out of 341 scores submitted.
My quartet (fl-vla-vc-pno) Aeropittura has been named as a finalist in the 2018 Lake George Music Festival Composition Competition! Congratulations to the winners Jack Frerer and Michael Gilbertson!