Cantus Jubilus, a work for unaccompanied choir and soloists, received the world premiere on April 30, 2011 at St. Olaf Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis. In the concert of music for choir and organ, the University Singers of the University of Minnesota under the direction of Kathy Salzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, and Matthew Olson, along [...]

Last Winter I had a privilege to premiere a new piano work, A Book of Hours, at The Art Institute of Chicago. The work takes four poems-prayers by Thomas Merton, each attributed to a period of the day: Dawn – Day – Dusk – Dark. As a Trappist monk, Merton was a poet very much [...]

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I just recently revisited a work originally written for piano solo in 2007, Inner Self. In this keyboard miniature, now scored for for pipe organ solo, I explored the idea of a self-enduced and closed transformational process. While it might texturally resemble a Baroque trio sonata, its contrapuntal [...]