This is New Music Box’s How We Learn week, dedicated to new trends in education and contemporary music. I spoke with Hermes Camacho of Austin Soundwaves about how their program is shaping lives in Austin.
My piano trio Imaginary Choreography was recently named a finalist for the 2013 Earplay Donald Aird Award!
Congratulations to Vera Ivanova for her winning work, Three Studies in Uneven Meters.
I have a new story up about composer and instrument builder Travis Weller. Check it out HERE.
(The above picture was taken at Travis’s house when our infant daughters met a few weeks ago. I thought it was pretty cute to see baby clothes sitting on top of the Owl 🙂 )
Earlier this summer, I did a spot for Xbox One and Major League Soccer to be shown at all MLS games this season! Check out the spot here!
I’m excited to announce that Sparrows Jump Nine Sandpipers was a finalist for the 2013 American Prize in Chamber Music Composition!
My piano trio Imaginary Choreography won third prize in the professional category of the Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers! I’m thrilled to hear this news and am particularly honored to have been told that the jury initially only planned on having first and second place winners, but felt that Imaginary Choreography deserved to be included as well.
(It’s also particularly surreal, having returned to the Wellesley Composers Conference where the piece was premiered last summer, to have been working on new music in my dorm room when I got the call. Whoa!)
Quicksilver, the first movement of my Pierrot work Sparrows Jump Nine Sandpipers will be performed tonight as part of the Oregon Bach Festival’s Living Music series.
The concert starts at 9:30 CST, and you can stream it live right HERE.
Tonight’s performers are:
Cassie Lear -flute
Benjamin Irwin – clarinet
Pauline Kim Harris – violin
Wan-Ting Huang – cello
Adam Marks – piano
James Kallembach – conductor
I recently went to see Houston’s Liminal Space perform a concert of new works including a few commissioned premiers!
Sparrows Jump Nine Sandpipers will be performed as part of the Living Music series at the Oregon Bach Festival on July 7!
Last year composer Stephen Lias (bottom right) led a pack of intrepid composers into the wilds of Alaska. Read about their adventures HERE.
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