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Recent
works and news |
| Biography |
The
Machine Awakes
My new CD from Albany Records! It features performances
by three Grammy winners: pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Masumi Rostad
(Pacifica Quartet), and hornist Oto Carillo (Chicago Symphony). Includes
The Machine Awakes, Seven
Memorials, Quark Shadows, and Nebulae.
Also available on Amazon
and iTunes. |
List
of Compositions
(with audio excerpts) |
Paradises
Lost
Opera-in-progress based on the science-fiction novella by Ursula K.
Le Guin; excerpts featured at Opera
In Flight, Gershwin Hotel, New York City, April 2-3, 2010. Also
featured as part of the New York City Opera's VOX
2006 festival, May 6-7. American
Opera Projects performed exceprts in New York City in May and October,
2007. Libretto by Marcia Johnson; new excerpts were premiered in summer
2008 and 2009.
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| Recent
and upcoming performances |
World
Without Words
For 13 saxophones, commissioned by Debra Richtmeyer.
Premiere at NASA (North American Saxophone Alliance), Athens, Georgia,
March 4, 2010. |
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Storm
Large with the Oregon Symphony
Orchestral arrangements for rock singer Storm Large's first-ever
symphony performance. Oregon Symphony with Gregory Vajda, February 13,
2010. |
| Associate Professor,
Composition and Theory
School
of Music |
2010
Bellairs Institute Workshop on Musical Rhythm
Sponsored by McGill University, Feb. 5-8, 2010, Barbados;
here's the pdf
for my talk on rhythm in Radiohead and Björk. |
| University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Tapestry
Opera Briefs
A program of nine new opera scenes in Toronto, Sept. 25-27,
2009. Here is a short video introduction
for the three scenes I wrote; here is a compressed
Quicktime version (25 MB). |
| University
of Illinois New Music Ensemble
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Agoraphobia
For flute, harp, electronics and video, premiered at the 10th World
Harp Congress in Amsterdam, July 2008; the two-movement version premiered
in New York City and Montreal, August 2009. Released on the CD Voyage:
American Works for Flute and Harp on Albany
Records. |
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| Seven
Memorials
For piano, performed at Tanglewood by Gloria Cheng July
29, 2006; "sparklingly tactile." Allan Kozinn, New York
Times, 8/2/06. Premiered October 24, 2004 by Gloria in Los Angeles.
"...Cheng unveiled something big and special: the first performance
of Stephen Andrew Taylor's 'Seven Memorials,' a splendid sonic tour
of natural phenomena all over the globe." Richard S. Ginell, LA
Times, 9/28/04.
Writings
Including articles on composition, the music of György Ligeti,
and computer music. |