Soli Chamber Ensemble performs the first movement from my “Relics from the Borderland” (a suite drawn from the cantata Ballads of the Borderland” as part of its Echoes of Home program—celebrating Project 250 (250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence).
My tuba concerto Three Visions of El Greco will receive its Spanish premiere by the Banda Sinfónica Ateneo, tuba soloist Pedro M. Delegido Calero, and conductor Francisco José Velasquez Martínez in Ciudad Real, Spain.
Viatorum ensemble performs at Coates Chapel in San Antonio, premiering Leap and Hematite Dances, and performing other compositions and arrangements. Viatorum collaborates with Amy Frishkey, Linda Jenkins, and dancer Buse Babadag in this performance.
Bassoonist Emily O’Donnell and pianist Richard Seiler perform Cuatro Escenas del Cante Jondo at Emy-Lou Biedenhard Recital Hall at the University of Louisiana at Monroe as part of the New Music on the Bayou festival.
World-classical ensemble Viatorum performs several works as part of their evening concert at Mission San Jose.
Chamber ensemble Agarita, together with soprano Tynan Davis, mezzo soprano Megan Pachecano, and organist Andrew Lloyd perform the premiere of a new chamber work commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University.
The BYU Group for New Music features Occidental Psalmody in the BYU Recital Hall.
Bassoonist Nanci Belmont and saxophonist Kendra Wheeler perform Confluences at Louisiana State University on February 11th, 2025
Benjamin Pierce (euphonium) and Miroslava Panayotova (piano) perform Three Expeditions at the University of Arkansas.
Together with several colleagues, I am performing a program of solo and chamber works for oud, including the premiere of three new works.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in the Barrus Concert Hall.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in Barrus Concert Hall.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in Barrus Concert Hall.
My oratorio for BYU-Idaho receives a performance by the BYU-I choirs, orchestra, and soloists in the historic tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, UT.
My new oratorio premieres at Daines Concert Hall at Utah State University. Commissioned by BYU-Idaho, the new work will feature the BYUI choirs, orchestra, and soloists.
Conductor Larke Witten directs the University of Washington Recital Choir in a new arrangement of “Something about the Clouds” as part of her graduate recital. Entitled “Atlas of the Heart,” Witten’s program is built around Brene Brown’s Mapping of Human Emotion.
Pianist Izumi Koyama performs Passages at the Gohki Endoh Museum in Kyoto.
Soli performs the suite from my cantata “Ballads of the Borderland” at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.
Adrienne Pedrotti Bingamon and the Austin Cantorum perform “Something About the Clouds” with text by Carmen Tafolla.
Dr. Yoojin Muhn and the San Antonio Mastersingers premiere “Two Sea Songs” commissioned by the Mastersingers in honor of their music director emeritus, Dr. John Silantien.
Clarinetist Scot Humes and pianist Tania Tachkova perform “Campus Stellae” in the UTSA Recital Hall.
Soprano Claire Vangelisti and pianist Marti Mortensen-Ahern perform a program of love songs, including my setting of Daniel Ladinsky’s Hafez inspired “If You Have Not Been Drinking Love.”
Pianist Izumi Koyama performs Passages and Invention for St. Vincent in the Mezquita in recital in Kyoto, Japan.
Viatorum performed several of my chamber works, including Labyrinth, Away, and Pacific Samai at Coates Chapel at UTSA Southwest.
The San Antonio Philharmonic, under the direction of Ken-David Masur give the premiere of Emergent, commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University
Performance of my suite from “Ballads of the Borderland” at the New Music on the Bayou Festival at the University of Louisiana-Monroe.
Dr. Craig Jessop and the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra reprise the oratorio To a Village Called Emmaus with text by Glen Nelson.
Ron Ellis and the UTSA Wind Ensemble give the premiere of “Aurora.”
Dr. Randall Kempton and the choirs and orchestra of BYU-I give the premiere of Triptych.
Dr. Eugene Dowdy and the Symphony of the Hills premiere my new orchestral work.
Soprano Claire Vangelisti and pianist Marti Mortensen Ahern of the Austin Chamber Ensemble premiere the new art song “If You Have Not Been Drinking Love” on a text based on the writings of Hafez. Link to the program HERE. The program will be viewable through May 14th at 9PM (CDT).
