I'm very excited to share that I'm one of six composers selected for the American Composers Orchestra's Underwood New Music Readings 2020 ! The orchestra will workshop the first movement of my Symphony No. 2 in New York City during March 12-14. If you are in the city, the reading sessions are open to the public and are on March 12 from 9:30am-12:30pm and March 13 7:30pm-10pm at the Marian Anderson Theater at The City College of New York ( More info here ). The Chorosynthesis Singers' double album of socially conscious choral music, entitled Empowering Silenced Voices, which includes my Do You Hear How Many You Are? has finally been released on Centaur Records! The whole album is beautiful, and you can find it on Spotify , iTunes , and Amazon , but you can listen to my work on Youtube:
After winning the Yale Glee Club's Emerging Composer Competition this year, the choir premiered my Dona Nobis Pacem conducted by Daniel Tucker in October. They did a wonderful job and I was happy to be able to come to New Haven for the performance. They are also taking the work on tour to Florida and Puerto Rico this Spring. Here's a video from the October performance:
This past semester, I had two new works premiered at Eastman. My Mini-Concerto for Piano and 9 Players, an action-packed 4-minute piece, was performed superbly by Kevin Wang-piano, and the Eastman Graduate Composers' Sinfonietta conducted by Austin Chanu.
And my short Midnight Prayer for String Quartet, a lyrical piece dedicated to my wife Diane, was performed by Hannah Kim and Leo Matsuoka-violins, Adrian Jackson-viola, and Joella Becker-cello.
I don't know all my plans for this coming summer yet, but I do know that I will be headed back to the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska for a two-week residency in late May. I was a resident there back in 2012 and I'm thrilled to be back and have a couple weeks to just compose! Back in August, I got to travel to Toronto for a workshop on composing for strings with the Unitatis Strings and their conductor Kemi Lo at the Canadian Music Centre , where they recorded by Berceuse for Strings. Have a listen to it here . In October, I went to the College Music Society 's National Conference in Louisville, KY where the University of Louisville Collegiate Chorale conducted by Kent Hatteberg, gave a fantastic performance of my In this short Life. I don't have a video of that performance, but here is a video from their performance of the work a week before the conference:
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