Lincoln Center performance, May 28 2012
Interested in premiering my De Profundis (Six Psalms for Chorus and Orchestra) in the Lincoln Center, May 28 2012? Come join us!
http://www.dciny.org/2011-12-performance-opportunities/
Video: Two Colonial Folksongs Rehearsal
Here’s video of the rehearsal of Two Colonial Folksongs, to be premiered tomorrow by the Williamsburg Choral Guild. My intent is to write a whole cycle of American folk song settings for chorus, and these are the first two. The Nightingale is a slow, wistful setting of a beautiful folk tune; The Girl I Left Behind Me is a jaunty, fun setting of a fife-tune type folk song. What a privilege to arrange these early American folk songs for a choir in a city like Williamsburg! (And I got to talk about them in three schools in Williamsburg, today, funded by a grant from Meet The Composer!)
Te Deum premiere videos
Videos of the three movements of my Te Deum, premiered yesterday in Houston, Texas, by the Texas Master Chorale. Audio isn’t the best, but a good recording will be forthcoming…
Future Plans, May 2012
The time has finally come to announce my future plans (which I’ve been keeping quiet for quite some time!). I will be teaching one more year (2011-2012) at BJU; in May 2012 I will be joining Beckenhorst Press as assistant editor to Craig Courtney. (We will still live in Greenville, SC). For quite a while now, I’ve struggled to find the time to do my best at both theory pedagogy and my compositional career, and this seems to be God’s ordained solution. I will miss my students and my colleagues after next school year, but I will still seek opportunities to teach and influence musicians through workshops, residencies, and private teaching, and I look forward to working with Craig and devoting myself more to composing.