I completely expected this latest composer FAIL from the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute since the instrumentation of my orchestra...

During his undergraduate days at University of Wisconsin-Madison, my composer friend Neb Macura moonlighted as a DJ at 91.7 FM WSUM, the...

I was asked by the Cincinnati Performance Time Arts (PTA) to contribute a performance to their April fundraiser. What's better than...

I attended the Opera America conference in Philadelphia almost a month ago, and it seems way longer than that. The dust is finally...

This may be the strangest and yet most exciting post ever on my blog. Why am I excited? Well, I posted this darling picture of a calico...

Thanks to the Presser Foundation, I just came back from Philadelphia attending the Opera America Conference,1 meeting with Michael Ching...

I will be in Philadelphia this week attending Opera America's "Creative Resurgence" Opera Conference, thanks to the Presser Foundation....

For this road trip I'm attending the 2012 International Women's Brass Conference: Genevieve Clarkson is performing the tuba version of...

If you can believe it, there is a backlog of composer FAILS (and one composer WIN). I'm so behind. While I catch up, you could check out...

Three years ago I wrote my first wind ensemble piece inspired by Keith Sonnier's light installation "Motordom." I thought the metaphor...

The last month or so was a bit crazy since I was studying for my major exams and wishing I had not scheduled them around the same time as...

Good news: I was mentioned in Ugly Duckling Presse's Emergency INDEX 2011! André Alves's and my collaboration (entitled "Silence It Is")...

I think I have almost fully recovered from my comp comp a week ago,1 so therefore I must return to the land of the living. Thus, posting...

As a young composer, were you forced to write in a certain style? Were you not allowed to write your own music first, but rather you were...

So, remember how I mentioned on one of my composer FAIL posts that I was offered an exciting funded opportunity this summer and I wasn't...

When I moved to Cincinnati, I had no idea that the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had a long tradition of premiering new works1 and that...

The fiftieth composer FAIL. What an honor. And, of course, it's a rejection from a potential employer. This may be the job application...

So…remember that post where I wrote about the Cincinnati Streetcar and how great it would be to create some streetcar art and maybe some...

So, I guess no June in Buffalo this year. Is it just me, or does the font for "Dear" and "Jennifer Jolley" look a little different?

Lucky me, I have an exciting weekend coming up: I will (hopefully) party-it-up with eighth blackbird tonight at Memorial Hall,1 then...