Odds & Ends

Some updates….

• I’m delighted to be returning as Composer-in-Residence at the Lutheran Summer Music Institute hosted at Valparaiso in June-July 2023.

• Not a Thing But a Movement, for solo piano, will be premiered in its seven-movement version on March 26 at the Hidden Valley Zen Center in San Marcos, CA, by the incredible Peter Gach. The eighth and final movement is still in progress, and will eventually be a standalone piece that can be played as sort of an optional conclusion to the NATBAM set.

• A set of pieces for Paul Cannon (of Ensemble Modern) is still forthcoming, somehow always on the backburner but still very much alive

• I can’t believe it but I’m currently teaching my tenth semester at Hope College - a mix of private composition, theory (diatonic harmony, post-tonal styles), and aural skills (with a focus on improvisation in various styles). I still love teaching as much as I did when I first started - what’s not to love about listening to, writing, and talking about music all day?