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Alyssa Reit Premieres Moss Soft Gleam

Harpist Alyssa Reit will premiere my piece Moss Soft Gleam as part of the Queens New Music Festival and Vox Novus’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame project. Alyssa Reit has appeared as a harpist and storyteller across the US. She has performed with Anonymous 4, John Cage, and theater director/choreographer Martha Clarke. Active as a composer, Reit’s works include solos, brass quintets, choral music, music for string orchestra and more.

Friday, May 1, 2026 7:30 PM
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Alyssa Reit
Queens New Music Festival
Culture Lab LIC
5-25 46th Ave
Long Island City NY 11101

Purchase tix for the festival which kicks off tonight and runs through Monday, May 4.

Moss Soft Gleam is the first time I’ve written for lever harp. It explores the instrument’s polytonal possibilities. Also on the program are works by E. Bu?ra Balc?, Erik Branch, Ross James Carey, François Couture, Philip Czap?owski, Joshua Paul Daniels, Ljubica Dam?evi?, Christopher Everest, Ólafur Geir Guðlaugsson, Faruk Mehi?, Ken Metz, Marina Romani, Juan María Solare, and Jane Wang.

I wish I could attend the performance in person. The one time I’ve been to Culture Lab LIC was with Miolina on a bill we shared with the amazing Ken Butler and HYBRID. Instead, I’ll make do with the livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNWMcnbMAWM

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Vuorovesi Trio Performs Worldlines

Excerpt of the Worldlines score showing black music notation on a white background

The Vurorovesi Trio will perform my composition Worldlines on Monday, January 12 at 7pm in the Moore Gallery in Bryce Main on the campus of the University of Alabama. The Vuorovesi Trio is made up of University of Alabama School of Music faculty members Diane Boyd Schultz, Mary Lindsey Bailey, Osiris J. Molina.

Monday, January 12, 2026 7:00pm
Vuorovesi Trio
Moore Gallery in Bryce Main
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL

Like many of my scores, the musicians performing Worldlines determine the moment-to-moment shape of the music. In this case, all of the musicians share the same written material and use hand-signals to determine how they navigate through it. One hand signal may cue players to repeat their current phrase, while another may cause them to read backwards through the score. A worldline is a tool from physics which describes an object’s path in both three-dimensional space and in time.

Worldlines is scored for 3 or more sustaining instruments. I love how well it fits the wind trio format and Vuorovesi, in particular. Here’s a video from Vuorovesi’s April 2025 performance at the Alabama School of Fine Arts.

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BAMA@30

The Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. One part of the celebration is a series of virtual concerts. The first one dropped on Friday, October 10 and features music by Cynthia Miller, Shane Lamb and me.

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Future virtual concerts will premiere every Friday afternoon. Over 100 composers have been active in BAMA during its 30 years of supporting new music in Alabama. So there’s a wide range of interesting pieces to come: chamber music, solo piano, improvisations, electronics, and more. Follow B’ham Art Music Alliance on YouTube to see them all.

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Field Song at Flyover Fest

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Field Song, a docu-poem short film featuring the poetry of Hannah Drake with the (Un)Known Project will be screened Saturday as part of the 2025 Flyover Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. I composed the score to the film along with vocalist Jamilah Cooper. A great group of collaborators led this project: Barbara Jane Brickman, John Haley and Catherine Roach.

Saturday, July 26, 2025 3pm
Flyover Film Festival
Speed Art Museum
South 3rd Street
Louisville KY

Field Song is in excellent company for the rest of Saturday’s program: Appalshop, Freeman Vines, Berea College, and more. I wish I could be there in person!

By the way, Field Song was a finalist at the International Poetry Film Festival in Los Angeles.