Bassoonist Nanci Belmont and saxophonist Kendra Wheeler perform Confluences at Louisiana State University on February 11th, 2025
Chamber ensemble Agarita, together with soprano Tynan Davis, mezzo soprano Megan Pachecano, and organist Andrew Lloyd perform the premiere of a new chamber work commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University.
Together with several colleagues, I am performing a program of solo and chamber works for oud, including the premiere of three new works.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in the Barrus Concert Hall.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in Barrus Concert Hall.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in Barrus Concert Hall.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in the historic tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, UT.
My new oratorio premieres at Daines Concert Hall at Utah State University. Commissioned by BYU-Idaho, the new work will feature the BYUI choirs, orchestra, and soloists.
Conductor Larke Witten directs the University of Washington Recital Choir in a new arrangement of “Something about the Clouds” as part of her graduate recital. Entitled “Atlas of the Heart,” Witten’s program is built around Brene Brown’s Mapping of Human Emotion.
Pianist Izumi Koyama performs Passages at the Gohki Endoh Museum in Kyoto.
Soli performs the suite from my cantata “Ballads of the Borderland” at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.
Adrienne Pedrotti Bingamon and the Austin Cantorum perform “Something About the Clouds” with text by Carmen Tafolla.
Dr. Yoojin Muhn and the San Antonio Mastersingers premiere “Two Sea Songs” commissioned by the Mastersingers in honor of their music director emeritus, Dr. John Silantien.
Clarinetist Scot Humes and pianist Tania Tachkova perform “Campus Stellae” in the UTSA Recital Hall.
Soprano Claire Vangelisti and pianist Marti Mortensen-Ahern perform a program of love songs, including my setting of Daniel Ladinsky’s Hafez inspired “If You Have Not Been Drinking Love.”
Pianist Izumi Koyama performs Passages and Invention for St. Vincent in the Mezquita in recital in Kyoto, Japan.
Viatorum performed several of my chamber works, including Labyrinth, Away, and Pacific Samai at Coates Chapel at UTSA Southwest.
The San Antonio Philharmonic, under the direction of Ken-David Masur give the premiere of Emergent, commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University
Performance of my suite from “Ballads of the Borderland” at the New Music on the Bayou Festival at the University of Louisiana-Monroe.
Dr. Craig Jessop and the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra reprise the oratorio To a Village Called Emmaus with text by Glen Nelson.
Ron Ellis and the UTSA Wind Ensemble give the premiere of “Aurora.”
Dr. Randall Kempton and the choirs and orchestra of BYU-I give the premiere of Triptych.
Dr. Eugene Dowdy and the Symphony of the Hills premiere my new orchestral work.
Soprano Claire Vangelisti and pianist Marti Mortensen Ahern of the Austin Chamber Ensemble premiere the new art song “If You Have Not Been Drinking Love” on a text based on the writings of Hafez. Link to the program HERE. The program will be viewable through May 14th at 9PM (CDT).
Quartet ES performs “Apart; Together” as part of the “Uncertainty of Fate” festival at the University of Hartford Hartt School of Music. Concert is at Eastern Daylight Time. View on YouTube Live HERE.
Dr. Stephen Squires conducts the CCPA Wind Ensemble and Conservatory Chorus in a performance of “A Destiny of Liberty,” a setting of several excerpts from FDR’s “Four Freedoms” Speech.
Dr. Mark Heidel and the University of Iowa Symphony Band perform Corrida! at the CBNDA North Central Regional Conference at DePaul University.
Dr. Mark Heidel and the University of Iowa Symphony Band perform Corrida! at the University of Iowa.
Semi-finalists perform the premiere of my Gurwitz-commissioned trio with clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and percussionist John Hadfield.
Gurwitz judge Carolyn True and the Soli Chamber Ensemble perform selections from Ballads of the Borderland as part of the Gurwitz International Piano Competition All-Star Judges Showcase.
Pianist Nick Phillips performs “Through a Glass, Darkly” at Studio-Z as part of the 45-miniatures project.
Pianist Nick Phillips performs “Through a Glass Darkly” at the Center for New Music as part of the 45-miniatures project.
