Vanguard Premieres Competition
This is a few days late in coming, but I’m pleased to announce that I’m the winner of this year’s Vanguard Premieres Choral Composition Contest in the emerging composer category! Sicut Cervus, a setting of Psalm 42:1, was the winning entry; Kevin Dewey, Vanguard’s director, wrote a nice paragraph about it here. The piece will be premiered by Vanguard Voices May 21 in Dearborn, Michigan. Needless to say, I’m pretty excited for that concert!
Also: I just received a schedule of events for the highSCORE Festival in a few weeks. Looks like there will be some great opportunities there. We’ll have private lessons and composition colloquiums with Chris Theofanidis, Giovanni Albini, Paul Moravec, Mario Garuti, and Ugo Nastrucci, as well as Italian lessons. I’ll be coaching a string quartet in a performance of part of my second string quartet; that, the Trope for flute and Canticle for cello will be performed on several of the concerts (to be webcast, by the way). And the weekends are free for sightseeing, which should be great.
More to follow later about works in progress!