One of my recent collaborations with choreographer, Valerie Ifill, and her newly forged company, IfillDance, will be featured later this month at Dance For A Reason, slated to be at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts’ Silva Concert Hall on January 23rd. As stated on Dance for a Reason’s website: In 1992, Geni Morrow had a [...]
In light of the pervasive yet productive insanity I’ve endured over the past few months, I wanted to give a belated shout out of thanks to all those who participated and played in my Master’s Recital last month. Over the course of the next few days I will be going though my site updating recordings [...]
After months of being side-tracked with projects (very worthwhile ones, I might add), I have finally got around to editing the video and audio recordings of ECCE’s ANIMA concert that occurred in May of ’09. Besides being the artistic director and curator, my own contribution to the program was a piece for solo viola, with [...]
Hot on the heels of the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium was the live performance of an original score written by Gracin Dorsey and myself for the spaghetti western classic, Death Rides a Horse. As stated on the film’s Wikipedia entry, the film has landed itself a special place in popular culture, not to mention [...]
From June 29th through July 10th I had the opportunity to both participate in and act as the Assistant to the Director at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. I have been part of the outreach, planning, and preparation for over a year, and now that it is over I’m both proud to say that [...]
As the director of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (ECCE), I am thrilled to announce its latest production: ANIMA. A concert of new compositions and choreography created in collaboration between graduate students of the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon. Two showings, May 29 and 30th @ 7:30pm in the newly [...]
Steve Reich has finally got a Pulitzer Prize under his belt for his Double Sextet. It’s about time! New Music Box has a brief article about it with some links to videos of rehearsals and recording sessions by eighth blackbird, who premiered the piece on March 28th 2008.
Next weekend, April 17th and 18th, two of my works will be performed as part of the UORDC’s spring concert: The More We Get Together, a collaboration with choreographer Valerie Ifill, and After Hours in The Parlour Room, a collaboration with Alex Taylor. Come see the work of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance Faculty [...]
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