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Honorable Mention by the Institute for Choral Creativity for street after street alike

Interview with the San Francisco Choral Artists about my time in Ireland

sculpture vi announced as winner of the 2019 WCCMF Composition Contest

street after street alike announced as winner of the 2019 Ó Riada Competition

Interview with the University of Louisville on receiving the Mitchell Scholarship

Review of San Francisco Choral Artists’ Performance of The Garden

Interview with the San Francisco Choral Artists about The Garden

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NEWS

January 7, 2022 || Happy New Year! Stephanie Lamprea’s album Quaking Aspen is out today on New Focus Recordings, featuring my piece “Flowers for Eurydice”—available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and elsewhere!

November 20, 2021 || Jamie Monck gave the first full performance of his entire Dark is a Way program, featuring my piece hands, empty except.

November 7, 2021 || I’m singing some James Tenney with Versipel New Music at our first in-person show! Also featuring Westerkamp, Barrett, and Burtner.

August, 2021 || Stephanie Lamprea’s Quaking Aspen comes out January 7, 2022 on New Focus Recordings and will include my piece “Flowers for Eurydice”.

Summer, 2021 || A long overdue news update! I participated in SICPP 2021 in June, working with Chaya Czernowin, Ann Cleare, and Nick Vines. The final concert featured my solo piano piece grain vi | fogging performed by Theo Rockas.

I wrote thin places for the N.E.O. Voice Festival, an improvisatory work involving an aural score, graphic score, two extended vocal improvisers, and an improvising organist!

Documentation for Bayou La Terre is incoming.

4.16.2021 || Cat Gambel and I ran our Bayou La Terre workshop this weekend with a terrific group of participants, which included my open text piece gliogarnach.

4.17.2021 || The indomitable Duo Charango have programmed a duo take of hands, empty except as part of their Oh My Ears concert!

4.12.2021 || The percussion studio at University of Louisiana Monroe will be performing anthrophony in their upcoming studio performance!

3.24.2021 || I’ve got another album review up at The Road to Sound—this time, for the excellent Resonant Bodies retrospective compilation!

3.7.2021 || I’m currently in Mississippi with studio artist Cat Gambel as we prepare for our interdisciplinary collaboration with the La Terre Institute, exploring clay making, place, and listening!

3.5.2021 || I’ll be heading (virtually? … physically???) back to New Music on the Bayou in Monroe, Louisiana this June, where hands, empty except will receive a performance.

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