• Chamber Symphony
    Available now, commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for EQ Ensemble
  • Radix Tyrannis: concerto for trombone and winds
    Premiere at WASBBE 2017 in Utrecht, with American Chamber Winds and Joe Alessi
  • Composers Now Creative Residencies
    2015-16 Artist in residence, Pocantico Center at the Rockefeller Brothers Estate
  • Transverse Fractures
    Now available on New Dynamic Records

Upcoming Events

October 10, 2016
Exergy Bubblebath for bass clarinet, marimba, and electronics. Transient Canvas.
Rutgers University Nicholas Music Center. New Brunswick, NJ. 12pm

November 4, 2016
Exergy Bubblebath for bass clarinet, marimba, and electronics. Transient Canvas.
Otterbein University Battelle Fine Arts Center. Westerville, OH. 8pm

November 6, 2016
Exergy Bubblebath for bass clarinet, marimba, and electronics. Transient Canvas.
Vanguard New Music Series, Kent State University. Kent, OH. 7pm

November 14, 2016
Astrarium, University of Oklahoma Wind Symphony.
Sharp Concert Hall. Norman, OK. 8pm

November 16, 2016
Astrarium, Truman State Uniersity Wind Ensemble.
Ophelia Parrish Hall. Kirksville, MO. 8pm

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Upcoming Recording Releases

  • New Dynamic Records will be releasing an album on April 24, 2016, with a recording of Transverse Fractures, a short flashy piece for flute and piano, recorded by Orlando Cela and Christina Wright-Ivanova.

  • The EMPiRES label will be releasing a recording of Pyromancer (my third piece for bassoon and electronics) in April 2016, alongside a bunch of cool electroacoustic music by Cody Brookshire, John Hennecken, Adam Scott Neal, Hanna Lisa Stefansson, Rob Seaback, and others.

  • The Sydney Conservatorium Wind Symphony recorded Hivemind in the studio back in October, and will be releasing it later this year.

Current Projects

I'm currently composing a trombone concerto for the one-and-only Joe Alessi (well, I think there's only one Joe Alessi. . . at the rate he's premiering works, it's possible cloning and/or genetic engineering is at play). The piece was commissioned by American Chamber Winds, and will be premiered at the 2017 WASBE Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, under the baton of David Waybright. Very grateful to the Willson Center for the Arts and Humanities for supporting this project with a faculty research grant for the 2016-17 year.

Also working on a new piece for horn, violin, and electronics, for Joshua Michal. Josh will be performing and recording a series of newly-commissioned works next winter. Other upcoming projects include a new piece for viola and electronics for Kurt Rohde and a new collaborative electroacoustic work in collaboration with guitarist Dan Lippel, poet Olivia Clare, and choreographer Kate Ladenheim. We started this collaboration at the Pocantico Center as part of a Creative Residency from Composers Now, and hope to present the new piece later next season. More on these projects soon!

The Composers Now organization has nominated two composers -myself and Jin Hi Kim- for the 2nd annual Composers Now Creative Residencies. I will spend a week working on a new project in collaboration with choreographer Kate Ladenheim (who I previously worked with on HackPolitik) at the Pocantico Center, at the Rockefeller Estate in Tarrytown, New York.

St. Olaf Band
St. Olaf Band performing 'Hivemind' at Carnegie Hall

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