News & Activities
- Commission from the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America Franco Committee to compose a new work for carillon in 2023 (Der Maestroso — character study after Elias Canetti).
- Selected for CD release: Der Saus und Braus, Society of Composers, Inc. CD Series, Volume 35 (PARMA Recordings, 2023).
- Selected composer: Tempo Reale Lampi di Rete—online audiovisual marathon, sponsored by the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music—CIME/ICME, March 2022 (Chain of Circumstances — dance video version).
- Selected composer: 2022 Festival of Contemporary Art Music at Washington State University, March 2022 (Chain of Circumstances — dance video version).
- Finalist, NYC Contemporary Music Symposium at Columbia University 2022 ("Unweaving a Rainbow" from An Unaware Cosmos).
- Selected composer: Boston New Music Initiative Prismatic Congruency Series, March 2022 (Der Tückenfänger).
- Accepted for presentation: "Modular, Recombinant, and Concurrent Approaches to Musical Form: Two Recent Works with Guitar" and performance of An Unaware Cosmos at The 21st Century Guitar conference, Ball State University, March 2022.
- Official Selection: Chain of Circumstances (dance video version), for FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Dance NOIR Edition, November 2021.
- Selected composer: Audiovisual Frontiers Virtual Exhibition, November 2021 (Chain of Circumstances — dance video version).
- Selected for publication: Die Schadhafte, in the SCI Journal of Music Scores, Vols. 62/63, Fall 2022.
- Selected composer, The Arc Project Online Festival 2021, December 2021 (Canetti-menagerie).
- Selected composer, 2021 SCI National Conference, May 2021 (Der Saus und Braus).
- Finalist, Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble 2020 Call for Scores (Interstices).
- Selected for publication: Chain of Circumstances, in the Spring 2021 online issue of Apricity Magazine.
- Selected composer, Locrian Chamber Players 2020 Call for Scores (Chain of Circumstances); one of four selected works to be programmed during 2021-22 season.
- Artist Residency at ArtsIceland Outvert Art Space (Ísafjörður, Iceland), July 2020; cancelled due to COVID-19.
- Selected composer, 41st Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival, October 2020 (Der Schönheitsmolch).
- Commission from the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Flute Choir for a work for flute ensemble (Phosphenes), 2020.
- Commission from pianist Richard Shuster, choreographer Jordan Fuchs, and Texas Woman's University, for a work for piano and solo dancer (Chain of Circumstances), 2019.
- Selected composer, 2020 SCI National Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington, March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).
- Selected composer, 2020 SCI Region VI Conference at Trinity University and the University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio, TX), February 2020.
- Guest composer at the Franz Liszt Academy (Budapest, Hungary), the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Brno, Czech Republic), and Palacky University (Olomouc, Czech Republic); May 2019.
- Finalist, Texas chapter submission to the International Society of Contemporary Music World Music Days 2019 (Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka).
- Guest composer at Texas State University (San Marcos, TX), April 2019.
- Guest composer at University of California, Los Angeles, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and University of Redlands; April 2019.
- Guest composer at the University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK), March 2019.
- Commission from TrioPolis for a work for clarinet, violin, and piano (Recombinant), 2018.
- Review of Die Sternklare, performed by percussionist Jacob Garcia appeared in Arts and Culture Texas, 21 November 2018.
- Featured composer (with Libby Larsen) at the James Madison University Contemporary Music Festival (Harrisonburg, VA), 22-24 October 2018.
- Radio broadcast of Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka on WWFM-Trenton, as part of their weekly program "Celebrating Our Musical Future," 8 October 2018; this program is archived on the WWFM-Trenton website.
- Featured speaker for the Philadelphia premiere of Frank Zappa's The Yellow Shark, performed by Orchestra 2001 at The Fillmore Philly in April 2018. This event was supported by a grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and also included programs featuring music by Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, and Pierre Boulez.
- Article on the Music of Frank Zappa course appeared in the 16 February 2018 Dallas Observer.
- Guest lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow, UK), October 2017.
- Accepted for presentation: "Practical Applications of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s On Growth and Form on Musical Materials and Structures" at the On Growth and Form Centenary Conference, 13-15 October 2017 at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). The paper includes a discussion of three original compositions related to Thompson's work: Occam's Razor, the road in its unfoldings, and Interstices.
- Interview with flutist and UNT colleague Elizabeth McNutt posted on her blog site, New Music Pioneer (15 September 2016).
- Awarded one of two 2016-17 faculty fellowships from the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts to complete the large-scale modular cycle An Unaware Cosmos.
- Selected for publication: eight modules from An Unaware Cosmos published in the January 2016 issue of ink&coda, an online journal of prose and music.
