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16 January 2025, News
Spring 2025 Announcements and Events
3/8/2025 - I'll be accompanying a number of flute students at the Nashville Area Music Teachers' Association performance competition, so if this affects your typical lesson or coaching slot, we'll find an alternative. 1/15/2025 - I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that my SATB choir+piano setting of Alex Posey's "Pledge of Peace" won second prize in Nashville in Harmony's Call for Scores from Southeastern composers! The prize package includes performances in Nashville and in Florence, Alabama, ...
05 January 2025, News
Fall 2024 Happenings
12/2024 - Check out my feature on the TopMusic podcast, where I was the featured composer for December 2024!  Click here   to learn more. 12/8/2024 - I'll be coming together with my collaborative partners from the violin studio of Dr. Maria Romero for a recital at Vanderbilt University, 4:30pm in Turner Hall. There will be a variety of styles represented, including a world premiere arrangement. Free admission! 10/17/2024 -  My music received its Macedonian (and indeed, ...
12 July 2024, News
Summer 2024 News
July 2024 - In the absolute chaos of my late spring gig season, I didn't see that my third blog post for Tonebase, on the evolving meaning of "rubato" in the piano repertoire, has been published! Check it out here:  https://www.tonebase.co/piano-blog-posts/how-to-play-rubato-on-the-piano I'm also pleased to announce that my fourth Tonebase article will be in the works soon. It will discuss the various ways to reduce and play orchestral reductions at the piano, something I confront every day ...
03 May 2024, News
Winter/Spring 2024 Events and Performances
5/12/2023 - Performance at the South East Regional Tuba/Euphonium Conference with Steven Dixon, tuba. If your slot is affected by the performance or any rehearsal obligations, we'll find a make-up. 4/29/2024 - Studio Recital with the Vanderbilt violin students of Dr. Maria Romero. Choral Hall, 8pm. 4/27 and 4/28/2024 - Studio Recitals with the Vanderbilt and private flute students of Dr. Jessica Dunnavant. If your lesson slot is affected, we'll find a make-up. 4/13/2024 - My Nocturne in G# ...
17 November 2023, News
Fall 2023 Performances, Presentations, and Events
12/10/2023 - Violin Studio Recital featuring the students of Dr. MarĂ­a Romero Ramos, Vanderbilt University, 4:00pm (venue TBA) 11/21/2023 - Private Prescreening Audition Accompaniment (any students affected will be offered make-up slots) 11/18/2023 - My Nocturne in G# minor will be featured on a piano recital program titled "Under Cover of Night" and presented by Cleveland-area pianist Megan Denman. The recital will take place at 4:30pm EST at All Saints Episcopal Church in Parma, OH. A free ...
23 August 2023, News
Summer 2023 Happenings
8/23/2023 - A beautiful review by Andrew Eales at PianoDao just came in for the 22 Nocturnes for Chopin, in which my Nocturne in G# minor is featured. Full review here:  https://pianodao.com/2023/08/23/22-nocturnes-for-chopin/ "...Suffice to say that the 22 pieces included here met with a strong consensus from the whole Selection Committee, and even though we each had a few pieces which we were especially keen to fight for, the final selection offers a potpourri that we agree deserve and are ...
17 May 2023, News
Winter/Spring 2023 News & Events
5/19/2023 - In probably the last event I can call a "spring event," I'll be guest-accompanying Allentown High School's choirs, coming all the way from New Jersey, at the Music in the Parks festival in Sandusky (better known as the home of Cedar Point). We'll also be participating in a masterclass/clinic at Case Western on Thursday, the 18th. 4/23/2023 - I'll have the pleasure of adjudicating the OMTA Buckeye Auditions for piano at the Aurora School of Music this year, which means Sunday afternoon ...
05 March 2023, News
Fall 2022 Performance Calendar & Events
12/14/2022 - Private Audition Accompaniment 12/10/2022 - I'm honored to be participating as a collaborative and solo pianist in a musical celebration of noted Cleveland-based composer H. Leslie Adams' 90th birthday at Grace Presbyterian Church, Lakewood. 12/9/2022 - I'll be reuniting with Cleveland Heights High School and director Jesse Lange, with whom I've had the pleasure of collaborating frequently, for their holiday concert. If this interferes with your lesson slot, I'll be in touch about ...
16 August 2022, News
Summer 2022 Season Events
8/14/22 - I'll be accompanying the students of Wei-Fang Gu in a violin recital at 7pm (CIM, Mixon Hall), so if this interferes with your lesson slot, we will find an alternative that week. 8/10/22 - I'll be in a private concerto recording session that evening, so if this interferes with any lesson slots, I will be in touch about alternatives. 8/7/22 and 8/21/22 - I'll be co-presenting a special program of music for trumpet/piano and clarinet/piano, respectively, as part of Sunday services at ...
16 May 2022, News
Spring 2022 Performances and Announcements
6/22 - While it's not going to be a spring event by then--I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that two of my compositions, Divertimento for string quartet and Lucid Dreaming for solo harp (both available for purchase here on MusicaNeo), were chosen in a blind judging process to be featured on this year's She Scores concert series, which highlights the work of female composers based in Ohio! The festival will take place between June 23 and 25 at Case Western Reserve University's Harkness Chapel. Visit ...
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