Photo credit: Richard Johnson

Future Events & Current News

• Performance of "Southern Specter," Multimedia Arts Technology Fall Concert at Western Michigan University. October 11, 2022
  
• Performance of "dans les dents de la guivre" during the annual Salvatore Martirano Award Concert at the University of Illinois, Champaign–Urbana. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Julia Kay Jamieson, harp. Click here to purchase tickets
  
• 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).
• "dans les dents de la guivre" has received First Prize in the 2022 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award. The University of Illinois will present the piece in concert on September 29, 2022.
• Behind the Back to be performed during the ISCM World Music Days in Shanghai / Nanning (postponed due to Covid; new date TBD)

Recent Highlights

• 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 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.
• 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.
• July 2019: Behind the Back received an Honorary Mention in the International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition, "Prix Destellos" (mixed media category).
• 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.