Southern Specter received the Black Bayou Composition Award from New Music on the Bayou. The award funds a commission for a new work, to be premiered during the 2022 NMB festival.
Fall 2021: Premiere of Valentina V. for harp, interactive multichannel electronics, lighting, and video. Hope Cowan, harp. Wortham Theater, Rice University.
Recent Highlights
Southern Specter was presented during the 2021 Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, held virtually from May 6-9. Performance by Loop38 Ensemble.
March 28, 2020: Behind the Back featured during the 50th Ball State University Festival of New Music (postponed due to Covid-19)
November 24, 2019: Colophony for fixed media was presented over a multichannel loudspeaker dome at the Osaka University of the Arts as part of the OUA Electroacoustic Music Festival.
August 2018 — May 2019: Visiting faculty appointment at Western Michigan University, teaching private composition lessons to undergraduate and master's students as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in music theory, advanced analysis, and the aesthetics of electroacoustic music.
April 12, 2019: Performance of Chatterbox with Birds on a Wire new music ensemble at Western Michigan University.
February 27–March 3, 2019: nightly presentation of Southern Specter at the Los Angeles County Arboretum as part of "Digital Nature 2019," a multi-disciplinary exhibition of site-specific art works that address the evolving relationship of the natural world and technology. Curated by Shirley Watts' Natural Discourse project.
Artist-in-Residency: I-Park in East Haddam, CT, from June 20–July 16 2018.
Behind the Back was awarded Finalist recognition in the 2018 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commissioning Program for Behind the Back. Hong-Hong Hui performed the piece at the SEAMUS National Conference at the University of Oregon.
Behind the Back has been released on The Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra's latest CD with Albany Records, Crossings: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments. Click here for details.
Salve Regina for divisi mixed choir has been published by C.F. Peters. Click here for details.
March 3, 2018: World premiere of Southern Specter for amplified chamber ensemble and video: performance by Loop38 with Musiqa New Music Collective. Click here for a review of the performance.