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Canciónes de desamor with orchestra at University of Texas, Austin
Tenor Daniel Castillo will perform the Canciónes de desamor that I wrote for him with the UT Lab Orchestra, Nicholas Perry Clark conducting. Join us for the premiere of the orchestral version of these heart-breaking songs. A preview of the songs can be heard here:
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Like a Darling on tour with Chorosynthesis Singers
in Empowering Silenced Voices 2.0
I'm excited to share that Chorosynthesis and their co-artistic directors Dr. Wendy Moy & Dr. Jeremiah Selvey are including my choral cycle Like a Darling, a work they premiered last March, in their upcoming tour through Washington in January 2017. Check out their website below for details! And preview their performance here:
Find out more »Thyrsis & Amaranth at Syracuse University
Setnor Opera Theater of Syracuse University (Eric Johnson, artistic director) will perform my one-act opera Thyrsis & Amaranth at the end of January along with two other one-acts by American composers to create "An An American Triptych: Three Contemporary One-Act Operas."Also featured will be Michael Ching's Speed Dating Tonight! and Tom Cipullo's Lucy. I'm excited to have Thyrsis & Amaranth featured in this production because I actually started composing it while studying with Tom. He was an influential mentor to me…
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Premiere of And Loving for All,
a civil rights monologue for mezzo-soprano and ensemble
Pale Blue., a new music organization in Austin, TX, is focusing their upcoming concert on marginalized communities, and they will be producing the premiere my new monologue for mezzo-soprano and ensemble titled And Loving for All. The soloist is the voice of Mildred Loving, and I've written the libretto based on her 2007 press release commemorating the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia. Mildred and her husband Richard became accidental symbols of the…
Find out more »Inversion Ensemble performs Of Birds
Austin’s Inversion Ensemble is a choral collective made up of composers and singers, formed to give voice to innovative choral works and to encourage the creation of new music, especially in the Austin area. I feel privileged that they've included my work Of Birds: Songs on texts from Medieval bestiaries in the repertoire for their premiere concert along with works from other local, gifted composers. The concert is free and open to the public, and I hope to see you…
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