October 6 2025: I’ll be presenting on my on-line educational program Music Education for Dancers (published by Human Kinetics) at the National Dance Education Organization...

August 6-9, 2025: I attended the Association of California Symphony Orchestra annual conference in Costa Mesa. No speaking or panels this round but I did...

June 20 2025: Just finished my fifth season at the San Diego Summer Music Institute for San Diego Winds teaching composition to a very talented...

April 23 2025: Really enjoyed going to Arts Advocacy Day this year to speak with our electeds on the importance of funding for arts education...

March 27-29 2025: Had the pleasure of facilitating at the Association of California Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra Confab in San Luis Obispo. I also have...

October 3-14, 2024: Got to spend a magical 10 days at Dorland Mountain Arts. Time to compose and write is a gift indeed!...

June 27-29, 2024: After 20 years, the long-awaited Houston premiere of composer J. Todd Frazier’s and my Breath of Life at Lone Star Lyric Theater...

June 17-21 2024: My fourth year back getting to work with talented young composers at the San Diego Summer Music Institute sponsored by San Diego...

June 6-9 2024: A wonderful four days with old friends and new at the League of American Orchestras conference. Wonderful to be in my old...

May 1-2, 2024: Two beautiful days in San Luis Obispo for the ACSO Youth Orchestra Confab. Beautiful hosting from San Luis Obispo Symphony and a...

March 7-9 2024: Just completed the LEAD Influence Workshop. Probably the most impactful professional development I have ever done. I’m a better leader because of...

February 5-14 2024: A very productive week at Dorland. The gift of time is like no other....

October 10 2023: Very proud to present at the Arts Empower MegaConference on the power of composition and music creativity in the music classroom to...

August 10 2023 : Two of my songs, Sasso Songs, were performed by the lovely Tasha Koontz at the Del Mar International Composers Symposium, led...

June 24-26, 2022: A new comic opera, Mimi’s Perfect Day, was premiered at Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival. Based on the idea of what happened...

December 5 2021: Second residency at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony! Like a lot of folks, had to get creative during the pandemic and I spent...

March 20 2021: On-line premiere of my opera Sorry Wrong Number as a video opera thanks to Kerry Jennings and the DePauw University Opera!...

November 2 2019: Premiere of a new short dance work, Grotto, at the Ucross fundraising gala. Very excited to have been commissioned by Ucross to...

November 18 2018: Performances of my Kyrie and two movements from my Joyce settings Chamber Music by the Houston Camerata Choir led by my friend...