(Originally posted on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN on December 16, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.) Two years have passed since the release of Wang Lu’s debut...

(Originaly posted on NewMusicBox on November 7, 2019) The evening of August 31 began like most Saturday nights at the start of the fall...

(Originaly posted on NewMusicBox on February 26, 2018) Three years after the events in question, I wrote a song cycle about the arrest...

(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on February 20, 2018) A couple of years ago as a New Year’s resolution I decided to take the...

(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on February 12, 2018) A few weeks ago, I saw an advert online that mentioned the Kronos Quartet...

(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on February 5, 2018) There was a brief time in my life when I no longer wanted to be a...

Here is another one. Are you guys saying you don’t want a twenty-four hour sound installation that stretches sounds and music from Final...

I am finally back from the Land of the Stately Pines, and so it is time to post some photos from my teaching travels. If you would like...

So it happened. I first received an email. I posted the live link on Facebook. I lost. And then I had pie. I wasn’t the only one watching...

No, this is not what you think this is. While I have been waiting for the Symphony Number One competition results, I have received two...

Well well well. Here we are again. It turns out I made the first round. I was also reminded they would be announcing finalists soon. I...

To recap: Symphony Number One has a comp comp, and I made the first round. There’s more. Now. Because I am a performance whore (and this...

A few weeks ago I decided to enter Symphony Number One’sCall for Scores 3 composition competition. I’ve noticed I’ve received a series of...

I don’t know about you, but the news coverage of recent local, state, national, and international events have been cripplingly bleak....

Recently I had an interview with Rob McClure, composer and now podcast host of Lexical Tones by ADJ*ective New Music. Considering we’ve...

First composer cat submission from Alex Shapiro. I was in NYC this past week attending a workshop for the Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project...

My semester ended on Mother's Day, and while I should be writing (and always be writing), a couple of monumental things have happened in...

So I am serious about having you guys send me your composer cat pictures. You can email me via my website. Or send me a PM. Due to my...

Guys! Send me your cat pictures. I am serious. Guys. I am so close to a hundred FAILs and this is actually exciting. What should I do to...

That's my music on the stands! Tonight (and tomorrow, and the next day) the sixth grade kiddos at Mason Intermediate School under the...