Here is a fun piece that I premiered with the composer, Benjamin Day Smith, at the North American Saxophone Alliance in March and then performed again at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in May. Ben gives a wonderful description of the piece on his website (there is a video recording on this page that captures [...]
Jan. 16th, 2010 was a fun night. My 2009 piece, Towards the Flame, was performed for the third time by four members of one of the best chamber groups on the planet, the Chicago-based, Grammy-Award winning eighth blackbird (a complete recording of the piece is available under the recordings tab on this site). Scored for [...]
Thanks to Eric Banks and the Esoterics for a great premiere weekend! Last weekend, Oct. 17th and 18th, they performed my recent choral work, Nocturne, in two extraordinary concert spaces in Seattle: St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, and the Holy Rosary Catholic Church. The piece truly came alive in both spaces, with beautiful and stirring performances [...]
This weekend in Seattle (Oct. 17th and 18th), The Esoterics, under the direction of Eric Banks, will give the premiere of my latest choral work, Nocturne. This concert is the culmination of a series of events begun by my winning the “American composer” category of their Polyphonos 2009 competition, receiving a commission as a result. [...]
Live Performance by eighth blackbird
For mixed choir, wind ensemble, and organ
Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Live performance by The Cornell Chorale, James P. Miller, conductor