Here’s the recent press release for the 2009 BMI Awards: http://bmi.com/foundation/news/57th_annual_bmi_student_composer_award_winners_announced/ The awards ceremony was a wonderful experience, and I was very honored to have been selected.
Archive for December, 2009
Notes on “Identity”
Posted: June 20, 2009 in Program NotesTags: composer institute, identity, minnesota orchestra, orchestra, Program Notes
Identity is a work of questioning, circuitous introspection marked by irresolvable conflicts between opposing musical elements. Tensions between triadic tonality and serialized atonality have a single governing 12-tone row as their framework, while incredibly dense, diffuse orchestral textures are pitted against moments of clarity. In addition, the rhythmically unclear conflicts with the mechanical. But with [...]
Notes on “Finnegan’s Logic”
Posted: June 19, 2009 in Program NotesTags: eastman, finnegans wake, joyce, sinfonietta
Any given sentence in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is a puzzle with its own internal network of possible meanings, which may or may not “make sense” in the context of anything else in the work. There are two ways of understanding Joyce’s language; we can either meticulously extract the meaning of each sentence from annotation [...]
I now have a member page over at the American Music Center – check it out!
See the tabs above for my recordings, score excerpts and papers – they’re all up now!
Welcome to my new website! I’m just getting started, so be sure to keep checking back here for updates. In the meantime though, be sure to check out the Listen page for some of my new recordings!
