Greetings from Charlotte, North Carolina where I will be attending a music theory nerd conference for the first time as a professor...

Last week I was at the Bowling Green New Music Festival where I caught up with friends, new music, and found myself at a fantastic place...

Today I'll be attending the 34th Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival where I hope to soak in a whole bunch of new music and have a...

There are two things on my mind right now. One is a performance of THE BUBBLE, which will be performed this Sunday evening as part of...

Let me get this straight—we're three days into October, the government shuts down,New York City Opera announced it will close, Osmo...

I feel like there are many weeks where I don't exactly know what I'm going to talk about on my blog, or worse—when I know exactly what I...

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa wait a minute here: these are becoming a bit more frequent. It seems as though Krispy Kremes and Butter Queens...

So I'm back after a wonderful weekend in almost-Cleveland participating in the 2013 Iron Composer Competition. I'd like to count this as...

Greetings from a Starbucks in Strongsville Ohio, where I'm trying to catch up on emails and blogging. If you're in the Cleveland area,...

Well, we knew this was coming, right? And…I'm not on this list.

Sorry about the delay folks: I've kind of been in meetings all week. Anyway, remember those videos I promised a while ago? I'm a little...

It's that time of year again where I realize I have to start acting like a Responsible Adult—you know, stop my partying and boozing and...

So here is something I should have posted earlier—way earlier. I visited Middle Tennessee State University and lectured and...

OH COME ON. (I'm going to cling to this like you would not believe…)

Just in case you thought, oh yeah, she is on a roll, she doesn't receive composer FAILs anymore, I present you this. You're welcome.

I wouldn't say this synthesized performance of “Ticket Punch” from Speilzeug Straußenbahn is much of a revolution (since I've noticed...

I decided at the last minute to enter another comp comp where I crampose a piece of music in five hours based on an assigned...

I am STILL buzzing with excitement about Homer Bailey's no-hitter against the Giants on Tuesday night. It actually happened! Nothing...

Hello! I am back from Chamber Music Campania (which is still going on, so I am way jealous of my wind quintet peers) where I was...