The Utah Review, on the upcoming premiere of my chamber piano concerto:
Unconventional pairings, old and new, highlight NOVA Chamber Music Series' Bach and New Horizons.
A great read by Les Roka!
More information on the concert, HERE.
Happy Spring everyone!
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St. Francis College Professor of Fine Arts and flutist Roberta Michel performed with accompaniment by pianists Mirna Lekiƈ and Andrea Lodge my new piece for flute(s) and piano: Sound Imagert No.6 at the Concert at Half Past Twelve, The Flute Through the Ages, II on Monday, October 23 in the College's Founders Hall.
The video of the performance can be found HERE
The Flute Through the Ages, II
Date: Monday - October 23, 2017
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Founders Hall
More information about the program and the performers, HERE.
Happy to announce that I will be presenting my current research at Society for Music Theory's national meeting (SMT 2017), to be held in Virginia from November 2nd to the 5th. I will be presenting along with my fellow coauthor Nicholas Nelson. The title of the paper is "Near-Symmetry: A Theory of Chord Quality with Implications for Voice Leading".
I am very happy to announce that Nova Chamber Music Series has commissioned me a chamber piano concerto for their 40th anniversary season to take place in the Spring of 2018. Exact date TBA!
NOVA’s current Artistic Director, Utah Symphony Pianist Jason Hardink (who will be performing my piece) was appointed in the fall of 2009. Under his leadership the series has deepened relationships with Utah composers while broadening NOVA’s profile nationally through commissions and recordings of works by composers Curtis Curtis-Smith, Jason Eckardt, and Michael Ellison. Since 2009 NOVA has featured collaborations with Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer, soprano Celena Shafer, and the PLAN-B Theatre Company.
Stay tuned for more news!