The Xavier University Symphonic Winds world premiered beauty…beholder this past weekend. It was a pretty amazing experience on many different levels both personally and professionally, and there’s a lot of stuff buzzing around in my head about it that i wanted to get it down into a couple of blog entries while it was all …
I’ve been thinking about and asking friends and acquaintances for ideas for a PNW-themed percussion quartet. There were some decent ideas out there, but none of them really grabbed me as being sustainable for an 8-10 piece of music and i don’t really want to break it up into a multimovement work. I was poking …
So over the holidays I solidified a commission with the Portland Percussion Group. They put in a concert proposal for PASIC 2013 and one of the pieces for that concert will be written by me. The theme for the concert is essentially the Pacific Northwest – the concert is going to spotlight composers that have …