As this year comes to a close, I'd like to share a few highlights from the past twelve months. I was fortunate to have some really...

Courtney Orlando and SD after her performance of regarding "Reconciliation Elegy" at the June In Buffalo festival, 6 June 2018. Photos:...

Of particular interest to those in the Baltimore/DC/NoVA area: the Maryland Choral Society will be premiering my new choral anthem...

Tomorrow, it'll be a month since I traveled back to my old stomping grounds of Fredonia, NY to hear my incredible friends, the ANA Trio,...

Steely Dan: (L to R) Walter Becker, Donald Fagen Woke up this morning to texts from friends sharing the news that Walter Becker,...

When my colleague Matthew Brown (the conductor of the American University symphony orchestra) and I first discussed the idea of a new...

Tonight and tomorrow at 8pm the American University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of my friend and colleague Matthew Brown,...

So last year (as we now can gleefully refer to 2016) can be unhesitatingly described as all over the place (and that's kind!). As we...

This is the last of a three-part series of posts where I argue standards of professional quality are necessary if composers want to be...

This post follows Part I of a three-part series where I argue standards of professional quality are necessary if composers want to be...

A serious question (not hypothetical): Name a professional enterprise outside the creative arts where the idea of developing a solid,...

The avenues of social media where new music reside have been afire the past 24 hours with the sudden notice of a speech given by the...

Summer means I've found time to give this site a much-needed update. So, here-we-go: • The most notable update is this BLOG! On this...

A mentor once told me that the only thing that separates the waning childhood of high school seniorism and the latent adulthood of...

Ubi Caritas was recently broadcast on Baltimore Radio WYPR "Choral Arts Classics" Listen to the broadcast here. For more information...

(above: Boulez: "Improvisation III sur Mallarmé" (original unpublished version, 1959) - opening. Courtesy Phyllis Bryn-Julson...

The following is a sort-of "preview" of a lecture I gave on the School of Music Research Colloquium series at SUNY Fredonia on 4 December...