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.
Numbers Station (Cynthia)
Here’s Rene Reder, viola, and Chris Steele, piano, in the premiere performance of my work Numbers Station (Cynthia). This is from the Chamber Music @ AEIVA concert on October 28, 2021, held in conjunction with the exhibit Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, Alabama. The concert was organized by Laura Usiskin.
Like many of my pieces, this composition is open form and modular. In Numbers Station (Cynthia) all of the musical material relates to two dates chosen by the performers. So, as much as I love Chris and Rene’s performance here, I’m looking forward to future versions of the piece with different instrumentation, different numbers of performers, different chosen dates, etc.