My recent piece for saxophone and interactive electroacoustics, Ñamandu, will be performed tomorrow at the Florida State University Festival of New Music by saxophonist Geoffrey Deibel! I'm thrilled to have my music presented at this great festival! https://fsufnm.github.io/ #news #performances

Ñamandu has now been performed twice! The world premiere was performed by Katherine Weintraub last month at the World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb, Croatia, and the second performance was at the Applause New Music Concert Series in Mansfield, TX. Mansfield is near Dallas, my hometown, so not only was I able to go and hear the piece performed for the first time, many of my family and friends were able to be there too. After writing two pieces for Katherine and communicating el

My newest piece, Ñamandú for saxophone and interactive electronics, is going to be premiered on July 12 at the World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb, Croatia. Katherine Weintraub commissioned the piece and will perform it along with In Rarefied Air, the solo piece I wrote for her last year. I'm honored to collaborate with such a high-calibre musician as Katherine - she's doing an amazing job with it, and her performance is going to be fantastic! Here's the recital information. T

Next week, the Saxophone Ensemble at the LUCA School of the Arts in Leuven, Belgium, directed by Tom De Haes, will perform Prestidigitations in a 12-saxophone arrangement! The performance will occur on March 29, 2018. Visit here for the concert listing. Good luck to the ensemble!!! #performances #news

Huge congrats and thank you to ChamberLab and the ChamberLab Quartet for last night's amazing performance!! Check out their upcoming projects at www.chamberlab.org #news #performances

Last night the TCU Symphony Orchestra performed Roque Cordero's Piano Concerto in E minor with soloist Tuyen Tonnu, conducted by Germán Gutiérrez as part of the annual Latin American Festival. I had the privilege of engraving the score and parts from Cordero's hand-written score. This was my largest scale engraving project to date and a great opportunity to learn about Cordero's music! #news

On October 12, ChamberLab, Tucson's alt-classical, D.I.Y. chamber music concert series, will be presenting a concert of string quartets at Hotel Congress, in which my piece Carnival will be performed. This will be my first performance in Tucson, which has been my home for the past year. This will also be the first performance of Carnival in almost 10 years! ChamberLab is an awesome group. If you're in Tucson, you should come out to the show... it's going to be great! #news #p

Katherine Weintraub delivered a stellar premiere of my latest work, "In Rarefied Air," at the North American Saxophone Alliance Southeast Conference in March. This piece was fun to write - each contrasting section brought to mind a landscape or environment that I tried to connect in a meaningful way, so that by listening to it you get a sense of having made a journey. I thought Katherine's performance really brought a brilliance and color to those imagined landscapes, not to

I'm returning from the SCI National Conference at Western Michigan University. It was a weekend jam-packed with eleven concerts of excellent music and a chance to catch up with familiar faces and make new acquaintances. My piano solo, Gravitons, was performed last night by Dutcher Snedeker, who did a fantastic job! Congrats to everyone involved, and thanks to the faculty at WMU for putting together such a top-notch conference! #news #performances

A few months ago, I received in my email box an email from Katherine Weintraub, the super-talented professor of saxophone at Florida State University, with an exciting request. She'd heard some of my music and requested a new unaccompanied alto saxophone piece to perform at the upcoming NASA Regional Conference in Valdosta. Of course I was elated to collaborate! As we corresponded, she gave me a list of some things she'd like to see in a new piece. The list was great - she me

Angelo Favis is on tour in Southeast Asia! He has been performing solo recitals and giving master classes, and I am so excited that he will be including El Cucuy on two programs in Indonesia and the Philippines! Here's where he'll be playing: October 21: Solo Recital at the Sekolah Musik Yasayan Pendidikan Musik in Jakarta, Indonesia. October 28: Solo Recital at the University of the Philippines College of Music, Manila, Philippines. This will be the first time my music will

I had a blast creating the music for my wife's hilarious new video! Pulled out the saxes and brushed up on my jazz and latin writing chops. Oh, and also pulled out the kazoo and slide whistle... #news

Angelo Favis will include my guitar solo, El Cucuy, in his guest artist recital at Louisiana Tech University on September 24th! I wrote El Cucuy in 2010 and revised it last year. It was inspired by the legendary "Cucuy" - a Latin American legend similar to the boogeyman. This will be its second public performance, and I'm honored that Angelo has brought his superb artistry to my music! See more about the piece here! #news #performances

Paul Nolen just completed an awesome new video featuring the ISU Saxophone Ensemble performing an excerpt of Prestidigitations! I'm so impressed by both the video and their performance! #news

Good luck to the ISU Saxophone Ensemble as they premiere Prestidigitations tomorrow (3/11/16) at the NASA Conference! #news #performances

So, I was thinking about the last time I've had a new piece performed for the first time, and I honestly don't remember when the last premiere was. It's been at least 2 years, maybe even 3! I can hardly believe it - I've been very busy over the last few years, but mostly with teaching, and all of the performances of my music have been older pieces. Now, I am very excited to finally share three brand new pieces with the world, and it's all happening within one week! First, the

Soon I will be sending the final copy of “Prestidigitations” to the ISU Saxophone Ensemble. They will be premiering it at the conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance at Texas Tech University during the weekend of March 10-13! “Prestidigitation” is another word for sleight of hand - and this piece takes its inspiration from the illusion and spectacle of magicians’ performances. It is based on a simple pattern of notes that has been made to run on and on, and it def

My electroacoustic piece Frozen Earth will be performed at the New Music Café concert at Illinois Wesleyan University on Friday, November 6, 2015. This will be the first performance of Frozen Earth outside of Florida, and my first performance at IWU, where I began teaching composition lessons this semester. https://www.iwu.edu/news/2015/events/new-music-cafe-november.html #performances #news

The Red Note Festival is underway! We've had outstanding concerts by the ISU Symphony Orchestra and guest ensemble the City of Tomorrow Quintet. Tonight's concert features outstanding faculty performers in a concert of featured composer Steven Stucky. Tomorrow's concert features another guest ensemble, the Momenta Quartet. Finally, Friday's concert features ISU students and faculty, and I'm excited to have a performance of Draconids on the program. It's been a while since Dra

Y Ahora will be performed at Bethany Padgett's guest artist recital at Illinois State University. I wrote Y Ahora in 2009, but have recently revised it, so Bethany & company will be premiering the revised version. Christie Duffer, soprano, and Ruth Marshall, cello, will also be performing. Kemp Recital Hall Illinois State University 7:30 pm Monday, February 16, 2015 #performances #news