Wow. Just, wow! Congratulations to the finalists of the Darkwater Composition Competition: Hannah Rice, Dawn Sonntag and Jennifer Stevenson. Your works were wonderful, and it was a pleasure to adjudicate. Congrats Whistling Hens for such wonderful performances. I wish we could meet in person but will enjoy our virtual event (Composition Competition Finals) Friday, [...]
The Damselfly Trio will be performing my work The little girl never leaves us. on a concert of contemporary chamber music. The concert will be held at 3PM in Bodenhamer Fine Arts Auditorium Sunday, March 1, 2020. The event is free and open to the public.
Damselfly Trio (Liz Pearse, soprano; Chelsea Czuchra, flutes; and Lindsay Buffington, harp) are touring North Carolina performing contemporary chamber music, including my work, The little girl never leaves us. I composed the work for the group in 2018 for The Little Songbook Project. The work features text from Nichole O. Nichols's work Fast Girls [...]
I've begun work on a project for saxophone and fixed format audio that features and processes a voice recording of my grandmother, Ollie Mae Horn. This work is part of a collection of other works featuring my grandmother's voice, including Oh, I love to hear that organ music for organ and fixed format audio [...]
My work, Sit Still for mezzo-soprano, vibraphone, and double bass, will be premiered by Lauren McAllister, Jacob Dike, and Kate Alexandra for the Cincinnati Soundbox Concert Series 7p.m. on Sunday, June 23, 2019 at the 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati, OH. The suggested donation is $10 per ticket. For this song, I used text [...]
I am looking forward to hearing Mary Jo White and Christina Brier perform my work Beyond the Waves. I am also very excited to perform along side Ayumi Nakamae, soprano for Lori Laitman's Living in the Body. The concert is 6 p.m. Friday, March 8 with a preconcert reception. The concert program is: View Program
International Women's Day is March 8, 2019, and I am celebrating some great music written by women in a concert of works by female composers at Coastal Carolina Community College. An all-woman composers concert program is not without controversy. I did a lot of research and thought a lot about the message I wanted [...]
I am excited to be working on a new song for Lauren McAllister, mezzo-soprano; Yongyun Zhang, percussion; and Kate Alexandra, double bass for the Cincinnati Soundbox Concert Series. The premier will be May 12, 2019, 7 PM at the 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati OH.
Mary Jo White and Christina Brier will be premiering Beyond the Waves during a recital of my music 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 8, 2018 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington Beckwith Recital Hall. These great musicians commissioned me to write the flute and harp duo with funding from the UNCW Cahill Foundation. The [...]
The Cochlea Duo with Liz Pearse will be performing my work, The little girl never leaves us. on a program in the Main Gallery at the Bank of the Arts 7PM Sunday, September 30. Ticket information here. The program features newly commissioned works as part of the Little Songbook Project. The concert is presented by [...]
