Exoplanet/January 2015 News
2014 was such an exciting year! I think 2015 will be even more exciting. I’ll be participating in three conferences in 2015. First, I will be sharing a bit of…
2014 was such an exciting year! I think 2015 will be even more exciting. I’ll be participating in three conferences in 2015. First, I will be sharing a bit of…
Hello all! For those of us lucky enough to remain in the world of academia, the slow turbulence that is the Fall Semester has been well under way for about…
I'm gonna be honest folks, I'm sitting here on my phone in a cramped Subaru on my way back to Michigan, my mind complete mush, barely able to process this…
Day 4 of the UMKC Composition Workshop began with a listening session with Dr. Jim Mobberley. Afterwards, he shared some of his own music with us. During the listening session…
Day 3 of the UMKC Composition Workshop was focused mostly on the one and only Dr. Paul Rudy. First off, he led us in a listening exercise in which he…
Day 2 of the UMKC Composition Workshop started out with Dr. Mara Gibson sharing some of her past and recent projects with us. Her musical focus is on collaboration. She…
The past two nights have been close to sleepless in preparation for the UMKC Composition Workshop. Today is day one of the workshop, and so far it has been an…
Summer break is finally upon us college folks! I have several exciting projects in the works right now. My last project before the summer was to finish editing some recordings…
This past Monday I was a guest at Eastern Michigan University. In December, EMU saxophone student AJ Pratt commissioned me to compose a piece for alto sax and fixed media.…
My good friends, Kelly Vander Molen, Bryce Craig, and I formed a trio dedicated to commissioning , writing, and performing new music called Trio Insurgent. We had our very first…