News

The CD including Served Two Ways with trumpetist Christopher Gekker and saxophonist Chris Vadala was released this July by Divine Art Recordings of Vermont.  Release of Aaron Witek's recording of my Sonata for trumpet and piano is pending.  Editing is in progress of the recording of Postludes by Robert Young and the Crane Wind Ensemble, conducted by Brian Doyle, for a planned release by Mark Records.  A recording of Four-Letter Words with Julianne Kirk-Doyle and Robert Young, as well as two other pieces with me playing the piano part, is now available as a CD, or can be downloaded from all the usual sites.

See the list below for upcoming performances.

Now that I'm retired, I've begun the process of entering some of my pre-1989 works into Finale and adding them to
this site.  So far I've finished a brass quintet from 1985, a set of five Miniatures for piano from 1986, my masters thesis, Nightpiece for baritone voice and orchestra from 1977, and more.  There's no rhyme or reason to the order I do the pieces in--just the order I find them in the pile.

Upcoming performances

April 1, 2019                                        "Lazy" (third movement of Four-Letter Words), Jared Cummings, saxophone
                                                                et al., Schwob Saxophone Studio Recital, Columbus State University,
                                                                Columbus, Georgia
April 7, 2019                                        Sonatina, Chris Estabrook, trombone, Deborah Dierks, piano, University of         
                                                                Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
April 10-12, 2019 (exact date tba)     Four-Letter Words, Duo Nyans:  Christopher Kirkpatrick, clarinet, Johan Eriksson,
                                                                saxophone, with Adam Sears, piano, North American Saxophone Alliance
​                                                                Region I conference, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
April 12, 2019                                      From Joy to Joy, performers tba, Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI
                                                                 conference, Texas A&M-Commerce, Commerce, Texas
July 25-28, 2019 (exact date tba)     Quintet, ICA Clarinetfest, Knoxville, Tennessee​

Recent performances

January 23-4, 2017        Mantis, Robert Young, soprano saxophone, David Heinick, piano, South Carolina Governor's
                                                 School for the Arts (1/23) and North Carolina School for the Arts (1/24)
February 1, 2017            Served Two Ways, John Kaplan, trumpet, Courtney Kuhn, tenor saxophone, Rice University
                                                 Shepherd School of Music, Houston, Texas
February 8, 2017            Mantis, Casey Grev, saxophone, David Heinick, faculty recital, Snell Music Theater,
                                                 SUNY- Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
February 15, 2017          From Joy to Joy, Jonathan Stinson, baritone, David Heinick, piano, composition faculty recital,                                                  Snell Music Theater, SUNY-Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
​October 14, 2017          Silver Liquid Drops, David Heinick, piano, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
November 13, 2017      Penumbra, Max Esformes, bassoon and pianist tba, Crane School of Music
January 13, 2018          Mantis and Four Letter Words, Robert Young, saxophones, Julianne Kirk-Doyle, clarinet, and                                           David Heinick, piano, US Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, George Mason University,                                                   Fairfax, VA
February 27, 2018        Served Two Ways, John Ellis, trumpet and Casey Grev, tenor saxophone, and
                                       One for the Road, Raphael Sanders, clarinet and pianist tba, faculty composers
                                       recital, Snell Music Theater, Potsdam, NY
March 3, 2018               Tweets for eleven winds, members of the Crane faculty, Brian Doyle, conductor,
                                       New York State Band Directors Association 2018 Symposium, Liverpool, NY
March 13, 2018             After Hours, Lauren Becker, horn, Rosemary Suniga, piano; Quintet, Anna Hendrickson oboe, 
                                      Julianne Kirk Doyle, clarinet, Carol Lowe, bassoon, Casey Grev, alto saxophone,
                                      and Kathryn Sherman, piano; Conversations, Julianne Kirk Doyle and Raphael 
                                      Sanders, clarinet; and Silver Liquid Drops, David Heinick, piano on a recital of 
​                                      my works, Snell Music Theater, Potsdam, NY 
April 5, 2018                Turns of Phrase, performers tba, Society of Composers Region VI conference,
                                                 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 
April 15, 2018               Prelude, Song and Dance, Edward Matin, trombone, Snell Music Theater, SUNY-Potsdam,                                                         Potsdam, NY
April 17, 2018               Tuba Ferum, Sarah Baker, tuba, Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
March 10, 2019             Four-Letter Words, Duo Nyans:  Christopher Kirkpatrick, clarinet, Johan Eriksson,
                                                  saxophone, with Adam Sears, piano, Chamber Music Montana Performance
                                                  Series, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana               ​