Photo credit: Richard Johnson

Current News & Future Events 

• Brompton & Braeswood will be presented in 16 channels at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Ireland, during the Sonorities Festival. April 9–13, 2024
• Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the Napoleon Electronic Media Festival at Eastern Illinois University, January, 30, 2024
• Brompton & Braeswood will be presented during the 2024 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, January 5-7, 2024
• I have received First Prize in the Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers, Professional Division, from the Foundation for Modern Music. A concert of winners and finalists will be presented in Houston, Texas, in May 2024.
• I have received a Distinction in the 2023 Prix CIME from the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music (instruments and electronics category)
• Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at Western Michigan University. Dalton Recital Hall. November 21, 2023
• Southern Specter is included on the album "Made in Houston: Volume 1," released by Musica New Music Collective in Houston.
• Hope Cowan and I have received a grant from the American Harp Society to commission Valentina V. for harp, immersive audio, and lighting.

Recent Highlights

• Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during the Australasian Computer Music Conference at the University of New England, Sydney. October 9, 2023
• Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the 32nd International Review of Composers in Belgrade, Serbia. "Lola" Culture Center. Gorana Ćurgus, harp. October 6, 2023
  
• Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre during International Music Day. October 1, 2023
  
• Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at Ball State University, Electronic Music Concert Series in Sursa Performance Hall. September 25, 2023
  
• Performance of Brompton & Braeswood in during "Atemporánea" International Festival of Contemporary Music at Ástor Piazzolla Conservatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 20, 2023
• Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during the PAYSAGES | COMPOSÉS Festival in Grenoble, France. September 10, 2023
• Southern Specter (audiovisual version) was featured during an exhibition curated by Havre de Grace Arts Collective in Maryland. June 2–July 15, 2023
• Premiere of Brompton & Braeswood for ambisonic fixed media during the 7th edition of New Music on the Bayou Festival. June 3, 2023
• I received First Prize in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Commissioning Prize. My commissioned work will premiere during the 2024 SEAMUS National Conference.
• Performance of dans les dents de la guivre (acousmatic version in 8 channels) during the SEAMUS National Conference. The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City. April 8, 2023
• Broadcast of dans les dents de la guivre by Undae Radio. March 21, 2023
• Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during Electronic Music Midwest festival. Hope Cowan, harp. March 10, 2023
• Excerpts of an in-progress acousmatic piece were choreographed by Taja Will (Cowles Visiting Artist at the University of Minnesota) for The River Is Broken, a new dance work commissioned by UMN for the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance. Barbara Barker Center for Dance. December 2–4, 2022
• dans les dents de la guivre has received an Honorable Mention in the Giga-Hertz Production Prize, awarded by ZKM Karlsruhe. I presented an acousmatic 5th-order ambisonic version of the piece at ZKM on November 26, 2022, decoding for over 40 loudspeakers.
• Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during Electric LaTex. Wortham Theater at Rice University. Hope Cowan, harp. November 4, 2022
• Performance of Southern Specter, Multimedia Arts Technology Fall Concert at Western Michigan University. October 11, 2022
• dans les dents de la guivre was awarded First Prize in the 2022 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award and performed at the University of Illinois, Champaign–Urbana. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Julia Kay Jamieson, harp. September 29, 2022
• I received a NextStep Award from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council of Minnesota to pursue a two-week composition and research residency at the Norwegian Center for Technology, Arts, and Music (NOTAM).
• Behind the Back to be performed during the ISCM World Music Days in Shanghai / Nanning (postponed due to Covid; new date TBD)
• I contributed immersive environmental sound art for a collaboration with Ocean Music Action, The Knights, and composer/clarinettist Kinan Azmeh. April 23, 2022 at the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston, TX.
• Southern Specter featured by Earth Day Art Model, a global telematic and media event held on International Earth Day. April 22, 2022.
• Performance of Storm Study (8-channel version) during the Washington State University Festival of Contemporary Art Music. March 3-5, 2022
• Presentation of Southern Specter by Audiovisual Frontiers, a virtual exhibition of experimental audiovisual works by the University of California, Riverside.
• Southern Specter received the Black Bayou Composition Award from New Music on the Bayou.
• Performance of Wunderkind during the La Crosse New Music Festival. November 6, 2021
• Southern Specter was performed at New Music on the Bayou. June 5, 2021.​