Composition

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HONORS, AWARDS, AND PUBLICATIONS

•    Oklahoma Music Teachers Association Commissioned Composer for 2008

•    We Walk by Faith, Mary Shivered, 2004 published by PBA Music, San Francisco

•    Soli Deo Gloria, The Least Among You, 2004 published by Imagine Music, NY.

•    Mary Shivered, honorable mention: Amadeus Christmas Carol Competition, Toronto, Canada 2003

•    This River in Octaves, 2002 published by Musical Alchemy, Inc.

•    Kennedy Center American College Theater award for excellence for the musical score of Night Sky

•    The Way of Perfection, 1998 published by Lumina Music.

•    Where Once I Dreamed, 1998 2nd place winner of the Britten on the Bay 

      Composition Contest in Amityville, New York.  Published by Musikanta Press.

1. •   The Songs of St. Francis, composition winner of the Florrisant, Missouri Bicentennial Celebration of  1986.  Composition premiered in St. Louis by the Hazelwood Chamber Orchestra and the McCulver Concert Choir.
   

•     1995 - 1996  Teacher of the Year, Mustang Valley School

•     This River in Octaves, chosen for performance at the 1997 joint conference of the South Central chapter of the College Music Society and the Texas Society of Music Theorists.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

National Association of Teachers of Singing

Mu Phi Epsilon

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

College Music Society

Society of Composers, Inc.

MENC: The National Association for Music Education

 

 

PERFORMANCES

 

The Songs of St. Francis

Florrisant, Missouri Bicentennial Celebration

Hazelwood Chamber Orchestra and McCulver Concert Choir, St. Louis, 

Missouri, 1986.

St. Francis Choir, Oklahoma City, OK, 1987. 

Filaments***

Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Eureka Springs, AR,    

        1995.

New Music Festival, Cameron University, 2001.

John Cage Musicircus, Southhampton, England, 2002.

Radio Television Hong Kong, Radio 4, Nov. 20, 2004

 

Mein Fruehlingsglaube

Amadeus Piano Festival, Tulsa, OK, 2003

National Flute Association Conference, Dallas, TX, 2001.

Oklahoma Flute Society, Oklahoma City, OK, 2001.

Amy Zuback and Esequiel Meza, Norman, OK, 1997.

Oklahoma Composers Concert, Edmond, OK, 1998.

 

This River in Octaves

College Music Society and Texas Society of Music Theorists Conference, 

Ft. Worth, TX, 1997.

Oklahoma City Pianist Club, Oklahoma City, OK 1998.

Translucent Aire

Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Conference, Henderson State University,

Arkadelphia, AR, 2003.

The Least Among You

Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 2004

Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Conference, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, 2004

 

Echappe

London Chamber Group, London, England, May 2004

 

 

 

LIST OF COMPOSITIONS

And They Were Fierce...piano, clarinet, trumpet; 2007

Grief...piano, cello, clarinet, and vibraphone, 2007

Still Fighting It...concert band, 2006

Fibonacci...digital audio, 2005

The Angels’ Song...piano and voice, 2005

If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You...song cycle for                                              

        piano and voice, 2004

Incidental Music for “Oxygen”....piano/voice, 2004

Incidental Music for “Two Rooms”...digital audio and    

         MIDI, 2003

Poems from my Daughter...piano/voice, 2003

State of Grace...marimba, 2003

Things Unseen...chamber opera, 2003

STS 107 - Columbia...choir/trumpets/aiff file, 2003

Before We Begin the Program...voice and ukulele, 2003

O, That Way Madness Lies...concert band, 2003

Give Us Vision...brass and percussion fanfare, 2002

Bethlehem...SATB choir, piano  2001

Dawn...handbell choir, trumpet  2001

Echappe...cello, piano 2001

Vestiges...percussion ensemble 2000 

Some Creatures Great & Small...choir, piano 2000 

Galilean Service...Lutheran service of worship 1999 

Transparent Aire...string orchestra 1999 

Solos: a palindrome...piano suite 1998 

Pyrrhus...trombone choir 1998

Romance...oboe, piano 1998 

Soli Deo Gloria...clarinet, piano 1997 

Abditory...piano concerto 1996 

Fermentation...string quartet 1996 

Where Once I Dreamed...clarinet quartet 1996 

Mein Fruehlingsglaube...flute, piano 1997 

Pieta...3-octave handbells 1996 

Things Unseen...one act operetta 1994 

This River In Octaves...piano, clarinet, cello 1994 

Filaments***...prepared piano 1994 

Filaments*...prepared piano 1993 

The Least Among You...flute quartet 1993 

Suite Romance...piano, violin 1993 

Bear’s Friend...piano  1992 

When Soft Voices Die...piano, SATB choir 1992 

The Lord’s Prayer...piano, SATB choir 1991 

Mary Shivered...piano, SATB choir 1991 

Psalm 137...piano, SATB choir 1989 

Todesangst...chamber orchestra 1989 

Ring of Gold...piano, solo voice 1988

The Way of Perfection...piano, treble voice 1987 

Prelude & Images...piano, tenor 1987 

Missa Miriam...Roman Catholic Mass 1987 

Songs of St. Francis...chamber orchestra, SATB choir 1986 

A Frost Tryptich...piano, soprano 1986

  

   

Filaments***

for prepared piano

Translucent Aire for

String Orchestra