Just finished a new piece for Megan Ihnen and the Sleep Songs project. Scored for solo mezzo-soprano and fixed media (with optional percussion), VEIL is a wordless song for sleepless souls in the dead of night. I’m often plagued by sleepless nights. I have the winning combination of taking several hours to fall asleep with being […]
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I want to unfold
Just finished (as of three hours ago) my latest composition, I want to unfold, written for the Mana Quartet. I’m very, very excited about this piece. I’ve been working on it steadily since around mid-May, and I’m particularly excited that it’s an electroacoustic piece. This will be my third EA piece to date, and it’s by […]
Just finished a brand-spankin’-new piece for Orchestra titled Rock Salt in between bouts of sketching my sax quartet. This piece was written for a competition with Cascadia Composers and the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, so hopefully its grooves and groans will warrant a performance. At the very least it’ll be a nice addition to the catalog and […]
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NEW COMPOSITION: Frozen Smolder
I’m happy to announce that as of the 16th I’ve completed my latest piece, a commission by the Third Angle Ensemble for amplified violin, viola, and narrator titled Frozen Smolder. The piece a setting of a poem by the same name by Portland author Sandra Stone. The premiere will be on November 13th at 7:30pm at Studio 2 […]
I’ve reached the double bar on a piece I began about a year and a half ago: Catalyst, for mixed septet. Scored for flute, clarinet in A, (doubling B-flat and E-flat), violin, viola, cello, percussion*, and piano, it clocks in at around 20 minutes and is one of the larger pieces I’ve written recently. * – 1 […]
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