Here’s a video of the Bowles Fouse piano duo performing my work Cypher, A Circle from their recent concert as part of the University of Alabama in Huntsville Keyboard Festival.
Read more about Cypher, A Circle and the UAH Festival here.
Bowles Fouse Duo Bring Cypher to Huntsville
Pianists Kathryn Fouse and Adam Bowles wrap up their recent Alabama tour presented by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance with a concert at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Sunday, March 1. They’ll perform their program of new compositions for piano, including my piece Cypher, A Circle for two pianos. Other composers on the program include Ron Clemmons, Michael Coleman, Monroe Golden, Gavin Green, Michael Huebner, Mark Lackey, and Emily Zhang.
Sunday, March 1, 2026 6pm
Bowles-Fouse Piano Duo
12th Annual Keyboard Festival
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville AL 35209
Cypher, A Circle is a series of guided improvisations using the puzzle-like diagram above to determine pitches, durations, number of notes, etc.
The concert is part of the 12th Annual UAH Keyboard Festival which will feature works by CNSNC (Consonance), a New Jersey-based collective of six contemporary composers on Monday, March 2.
These concerts are supported in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Bowles Fouse Duo Revisit Cypher, A Circle
Tomorrow pianists Kathryn Fouse and Adam Bowles kick off a six city tour of Alabama presented by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance. They’ll perform a program of new compositions for piano duo, including my piece Cypher, A Circle. Bowles and Fouse premiered the work in 2013.
The piece is a series of guided improvisations using the puzzle-like diagram above to determine pitches, durations, number of notes, etc.
Other composers on the program include Ron Clemmons, Michael Coleman, Monroe Golden, Gavin Green, Michael Huebner, Mark Lackey, and Emily Zhang. Not every program includes every piece; the ones that include my work are in bold below.
- Tuesday 2/10 1pm – Shelton State Community College, Terrific Tuesday Series, Tuscaloosa AL
- Tuesday 2/10 7:30pm – Samford University, Birmingham AL
- Wednesday 2/11 11am – Wallace State Community College, Hanceville AL
- Thursday 2/12 1pm – Thompson High School Performing Arts Center, Alabaster AL
- Friday 2/13 1:30pm – Alabama School for the Blind, Talladega AL
- Sunday 3/1 6pm – University of Alabama in Huntsville, 13th Annual UAH Keyboard Festival, Huntsville AL
These concerts are supported in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Vuorovesi Trio Performs Worldlines
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.
Worldlines
The Vuorovesi Trio will perform my piece Worldlines in a free concert tonight at the Hoover Public Library.
Monday, March 24, 2025 7pm
Live on the Plaza: Vuorovesi Trio
Hoover Public Library
200 Municipal Drive
Hoover AL 35216
The Vuorovesi Trio is made up of University of Alabama School of Music faculty members Diane Boyd Schultz, Mary Lindsey Bailey, Osiris J. Molina. All the pieces on tonight’s concert are by Alabama-based composers: Michael Coleman, Monroe Golden, Gavin Green, Holland Hopson, Joseph Landers, and William Price.
Worldlines was premiered in 2017 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts. It was written in response to Jessica Angel‘s installation Facing the Hyperstructure.