I successfully defended my dissertation and will graduate with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rice University in December 2024.
Premiere of new work for ambisonic fixed media, commissioned by ASCAP/SEAMUS, during the SEAMUS National Conference at Purdue University. March 2025
Performance of Valentina V. — Faculty Recital by Hope Cowan at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. February 17, 2025
The "Gospel Acclamation" from my Mass of Saint Monica has been added to the GIA Publications catalog, for release in 2025.
Recent Highlights
I received Second Prize in the SoundChain International Composition Competition, organized by the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic (Trevor Wishart, jury chair). Brompton & Braeswood was performed there on November 24, 2024.
I received Second Prize in the Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest from Musicworks Magazine.
dans les dents de la guivre for harp and immersive electronics is included on "Music From SEAMUS, Volume 33" through New Focus Recordings.
Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at the International Computer Music Conference in Seoul, South Korea. July 2024
Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at NYU's Fieldstein Immersion Room, SEAMUS national conference. May 7, 2024
Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the Robert Avalon Composers Competition Concert. Hope Cowan, harp. May 3, 2024
Brompton & Braeswood presented in 16 channels during the Sonorities Festival, Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Ireland. April 9–13, 2024
Brompton & Braeswood presented over a 21-speaker ambisonic dome during Tallinn Music Week. Curated by the Estonian Electroacoustic Composers Association. April 4, 2024
Brompton & Braeswood was shortlisted (top 15 works out of 149 submissions) in the International Sonosfera Ambisonic Competition. Two performances in Pesaro, Italy: March 16 & 17, 2024
Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic parish in Dallas, Texas, is sang my Mass of Saint Monica every solemn mass during the season of Lent this year.
Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the Napoleon Electronic Media Festival at Eastern Illinois University. Julia Kay Jamieson, harp. January 30, 2024
I received First Prize in the Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers, Professional Division, from the Foundation for Modern Music.
I received a Distinction in the 2023 Prix CIME from the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music (instruments and electronics category)
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
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 UniversityFestival 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.