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Dear Friends, Hope you’re doing well! My new concerto for brass and orchestra, A Body, Moving, will premiere tonight, digitally, via the Cincinnati Symphony website. The piece was performed live a few weeks ago for a small, appreciative audience and featured the amazing talents of trumpeter Robert Sullivan, tubist Chris Olka, and conductor Louis Langrée. It will…

Dear Friends, I’m thrilled to announce two big projects.  First, my new album, The Arching Path, is available for pre-order. It will be released on May 21, 2021 by In a Circle Records, and you can preview and pre-order it now via Bandcamp. It features my ongoing collaborators Timo Andres, Ian Rosenbaum, Lindsay Kesselman, and Mingzhe Wang; it has art by Timo,…

Dear Friends, Hope your year is off to a good start, considering the continued insanity surrounding us. As Brecht wrote: “In the dark times / Will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing / About the dark times.” It is in that spirit that I bring tidings of my life: First, this coming January…

A few things! I’m so honored that the New York Times has singled the performance of my piece Don’t Look Down as one of the best classical events of 2020. You can view that performance here. And! You can listen to the first movement of a forthcoming collaboration with Lorelei Ensemble and projection artist Hannah…

Over the summer I collaborated with my old friend Francesco Simeti on a animation project called “Unrelenting” that was commissioned by Magazzino Art in Cold Spring, NY. It features three of my pieces, The Insects Became Magnetic, High Windows, and A Natural History of Vacant Lots stitched together. Now it’ll be projected on the side…

Check out the premiere performance of my Don’t Look Down, written for Sandbox Percussion and Conor Hanick “at” Caramoor’s summer virtual festival. I give a short introduction about the work and then piece starts about 3 minutes in.

Hello! A small update from me here. The Northwestern University School of Music has posted an incredibly beautiful live performance of my piece The Branch Will Not Break, conducted by the essential Donald Nally, from February 2020 (what feels like an eternity ago). The piece was originally conceived for eighth amplified voices but this acoustic…

Hello friends! Just a quick note that our film for Liminal Highway was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, in a piece that talks about the amazing filming location, the SS United States. And if you haven’t had enough of this project, we also have released a “behind-the-scenes” documentary, sponsored by 21CM. Here’s the documentary, feautring…

Dear Friends, Hope you’re staying safe. I’m so excited to announce Liminal Highway, a new EP and film featuring by my dear friend and collaborator Tim Munro. A 17-minute work for flute and electronics, Liminal Highway was originally commissioned by Miller Theatre and New Music USA; Miller has created a wonderful launching page for the release. The audio is released on New Focus Recordings,…