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Iron Giant at AEIVA

Iron Giant Percussion is now Iron Giant Free Association, and they’re performing Thursday, October24, at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA). Iron Giant will perform a set of modular pieces for which they’ve developed their own, unique arrangements. My work (((as reflected in the glimmer of the black pond))) will be one of the pieces to get their treatment. Come early for the reception before the concert!

Thursday, October 24, 2024 6pm
Chamber Music at AEIVA presents Iron Giant Free Association
Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts
1221 10th Avenue South
Birmingham AL 35205
5:30pm reception

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Around Stravinsky

An excerpt from the score for Extras

The BAMA Players will premiere my septet, Extras, on a concert titled Around Stravinsky presented by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance as part of the 2024 Birmingham New Music Festival.

Friday, May 10, 2024 7:30pm
Around Stravinsky
2024 Birmingham New Music Festival
Samford University
Brock Recital Hall
800 Lakeshore Dr
Homewood AL 35209

All of the works on the program are inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s Septet (1953). Other composers on the concert include Wesley Johnson, Mark Lackey, Jody Landers, and Matthew Scott Phillips.

My work uses the last few bars of the last movement of Stravinsky’s piece as a jumping off point. The pianist serves as a kind of conductor for the open score. The wind and string players choose which phrases they play in each section as the music unfolds. Every performance is unique. The title comes from an analysis of Stravinsky’s score which declared certain notes “extra.” I wrote Extras to create a kind of foster home for Stravinsky’s orphans.

The BAMA players featured in this concert are

  • Brad Whitfield, clarinet
  • Cameron Bonner, bassoon
  • Valerie Sly, horn
  • Sarah Norlund Dennis, violin
  • Chris Lowry, viola
  • Peter Garrett, cello
  • Eun-Hee Park, piano
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First Time Holding Up A Hollow Mountain

The Cahaba Saxophone Quartet premieres my piece Holding Up A Hollow Mountain tonight at Railroad Park in Birmingham AL.

Saturday October 16 5pm
Birmingham Art Music Alliance presents
As Seen From Railroad Park
1700 1st Ave S
Birmingham AL 35233

All of the pieces on the concert were inspired by locations in the area surrounding Railroad Park. My work references the history of mining in the nearby mountains. The concert is presented by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and is supported by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.