Photo credit: Richard Johnson

Future Events & Current News

• Hope Cowan and I have received a grant from the American Harp Society to commission Valentina V. for harp, immersive audio, and lighting.
  
• Southern Specter (audiovisual version) is featured during an exhibition at Gallery 220, curated by Havre de Grace Arts Collective in Maryland. June 2–July 15, 2023
  

Recent Highlights

• 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" on 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.​