Here’s the premiere performance of The Last Message Received, performed by the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and Choirs and directed by Donald Nally on April 30, 2022. More information at this link.

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I am excited to announce the release of cellist Johannes Moser’s new album Alone Together, which features my 2021 composition Exhalation for ‘cello (electric or amplified) and live electronics. Available on all major streaming platforms HERE.

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What Divine Instrument What Divine Instrument (2020) for choir and orchestra was premiered by NC State’s Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra (Peter Askim, conductor) and the NC State Chorale and University Singers (Nathan Leaf, conductor) on April 10th. This work was commissioned by the NC State University Department of Music and the Raleigh Civic…

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I’m happy to share with you the new trailer for In a Grove. Excitingly, Pittsburgh Opera will be presenting the In a Grove video premiere on Sunday, May 15th at 7:00pm via YouTube. Please register at the link below:

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Dear Friends, I hope you are faring well and safe. I’ve just returned from a month in Pittsburgh, where the amazing team from Pittsburgh Opera gave an incredible run of performances of the world premiere production of my new opera, In a Grove, with a libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, directed by Mary Birnbaum, and conducted by Antony Walker.…

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Hello friends! Just popping in here to say that the reaction to In a Grove has been wildly more positive than I could have imagined. So far it’s been called “brilliant,” (Classical Voice America) “outstanding,” (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) “alluring,” (WSJ)  “world-class,” (onStage Pittsburgh), and “a revelation” (Pittsburgh Quarterly). Most importantly, the audiences have taken to it…

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I am thrilled to see that my mouthful of a song, “I Will Learn How to Love a Person and Then I Will Teach You and Then We Will Know” was named one of The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021 by the New York Times. A huge thanks to the supreme new music…

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I’ve been teaching courses at the Mannes School of Music at the New School for the past year, and I’m honored to join the composition faculty today alongside Kamala Sankaram, and to work with such amazing composers colleagues Timo Andres, Jessie Montgomery, Missy Mazzoli, Lowell Libermann, Huang Ruo, Valerie Coleman, Hannah Lash, Joan Labarbara, David…

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Unbelievably thrilled to be nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY for Best Classical Compendium for The Arching Path, released this past May on In a Circle Records. This will be my second, since the nomination of my 2019 album, The Pieces That Fall to Earth. The team of people involved—the intrepid performers, producer Mike Tierney—were so…

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