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2024

April 5 – Watersheds released on Motion Studies (Navona Records, 2024) with The Crossing | Donald Nally conductor, Matthew Levy tenor saxophone.

March 22 – the gentle rain which waters released as a single for upcoming album, Motion Studies

2023

December 31 – Great Music in a Great Space at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY perform she took his hands. New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace. Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine (Kent Tritle, conductor).

December 9 – premiere of Liminal Soundings for saxophone and electronics with Jeff Siegfried at the World Saxophone Congress, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

November 19 – premiere of May I, may you from Letters to Jackie, a song cycle commissioned by Ryan Townsend Strand (tenor) featuring 15 composers. The cycle is based on letters sent to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of her President Kennedy.

October 27 – Watersheds receives an honorable mention from The American Prize, choral music division

August 4 – premiere of a bend in the branch for two baroque flutes by Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham and Barbara Hopkins at the 2023 National Flute Association Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

July 9 – The EcoVoice Project Festival presents Watersheds at Loyola University Chicago. Kirsten Hedegaard conducts New Earth Ensemble with Joe Connor, saxophone.

March 22-29 – Jeff Siegfried (saxophone) performs water-witching on a tour at several universities in the southeast: University of Memphis, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Appalachian State University

March 23 – Cal Lutheran Choir of California Lutheran University (Wyant Morton, conductor) perform she took his hands

E.C. Schirmer published she took his hands as part of their initial launch of the Donald Nally Contemporary Voices Series

2022

September 19, 20 – members from the Southern Nevada Chamber Orchestra performs r_carson on UNLV Nextet Series

August 7 – The Crossing perform she took his hands at the Ventura Music Festival

May 20, 22 – The William Ferris Chorale premieres our breaths come in restless tides in Chicago, IL

April 2 – premiere of rasp for prepared harp and electronics, Ben Melsky (harp) at the SEAMUS 2022 National Conference @ Western Michigan University

April 2, 3 – La Crosse Chamber Chorale perform she took his hands

March 19 – ~Nois premieres Meander (I) at Appalachian State University

March – Roots in the Sky @ Big Sky, Bozeman, and Minneapolis perform she took his hands

Feb 1 – Faculty Concert @ Appalachian State University, 8:00pm, Rosen Concert Hall, Eric Koontz and Soo Goh perform abrade

January-February – The Crossing perform she took his hands on tour at the University of Richmond, Longwood Gardens, Hamilton College, Bucknell College, Lafayette College, Franklin & Marshall College

2021

December – Drexel University Chamber Singers, conductor Dan Spratlan perform she took his hands

November 21 – The Crossing with Matt Levy perform Watersheds (New York Times Fall Preview)

September 13-17 – allay for solo piano, presented during Research and Creative Activity at Appalachian

April 22 – when we speak of the land, for bass drum and electronics presented at the Earth Day Art Model festival hosted by IUPUI. The performance was streamed live from the Robert F. Gilley Recording Studio at Appalachian State University.

March 16 – movements from Watersheds presented by Kirsten Hedegaard and the New Earth Ensemble at the Climate Change Conference hosted by Loyola University Chicago.