Compositions

Judging Final Round of Darkwater Composition Competition

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, [...]

Damselfly Trio to perform “The little girl never leaves us.”

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 [...]

Cincinnati Soundbox Concert

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 [...]

International Women’s Day Concert

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 [...]

World Premiere of “Beyond the Waves”

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 [...]

Cochlea Duo with Liz Pearse to perform, “The little girl never leaves us.”

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 [...]