2010 Calendar

February 4–6, 2010: Penumbrae will be performed at the Society of Composers, Inc. Region IV conference hosted by the University of North Carolina–Greensboro.
March 4, 2010: Ryan Fogg will give the world premiere of Traces at Carson–Newman College in Jefferson City, TN.
March 6, 2010: Saxophonist Kenneth Tse will give the world premiere of Buffalo Dance at the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) 2010 Biennial Conference at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.
March 12, 2010: Ryan Fogg will perform Traces at San Francisco State University.
March 13, 2010: Ryan Fogg will perform Traces at the University of California–Berkeley.
March 16, 2010: Ryan Fogg will perform Traces at Coe College (Cedar Rapids, IA).
March 17, 2010: Ryan Fogg will perform Traces at Northwestern College (Orange City, IA).
March 20, 2010: Ryan Fogg will perform Traces at Rice University (Houston, TX).
April 5, 2010: Ryan Fogg will perform Traces at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, MI.
April 19, 2010: Kenneth Tse will perform Buffalo Dance at the University of Iowa (Iowa City).
April 26, 2010: Kenneth Tse will perform Buffalo Dance at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA).
April 27, 2010: Kenneth Tse will perform Buffalo Dance at the University of Delaware (Newark, DE).
May 24–28, 2010: Ryan Fogg will record Traces along with new works by four other composers.
June 28—July 3, 2010: Kenneth Tse will perform Buffalo Dance at the 14th International Saxophone Meeting (Nova Gorica, Slovenia).
October 1–2: Confessions of Saint Augustine will be performed at the Society of Composers, Inc. Region V Conference hosted by Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.
November 11–14: Traces will be performed by pianist Joe Rackers at the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference hosted by the University of South Carolina.

News

  • In June of 2010, Penumbrae was named winner of the 2010 the League of Composers/ISCM US Section composers' competition.

  • Traces was selected to be featured at the 2010 Society of Composers, Inc. national conference hosted by the University of South Carolina in November 2010 and will be performed by pianist Joe Rackers. Confessions of Saint Augustine was selected to be featured at the 2010 Society of Composers, Inc. Region V conference hosted by the Augustana College in Rock Island, IL in October 2010.

  • I was recently awarded the Max DiJulio Prize at the N.E.O.N. (Nevada Encounters of New Music) Festival in April 2009. The prize includes a commission to write a new work for trumpet.

  • Northwestern College's Symphonic Band, conducted by Tim McGarvey, premiered my new band work After Darkness, Light in May of 2009.

  • Pianist Ryan Fogg will premiere and give numerous performances of Traces during the spring of 2010. Ryan’s program also includes new works by American composers Joseph Dangerfield, Karim Al–Zand, Tim Sullivan, and Bruce Christian Bennett. Ryan will also record the works for a forthcoming CD.

  • During the fall of 2010, violinist Piotr Szewczyk will give the premiere of Sul Ab which was commissioned by Szewczyk as a part of his Violin Futura project.

  • Soprano Michelle Crouch gave a performance of Confessions of Saint Augustine at Northwestern College in November of 2009. This performance included the premiere of the opening movement, "Magnus Es, Domine."