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2021            Featured Composer and Conductor for 2021 Kentucky Music Educators Association All-State Children’s Chorus 
                    Louisville, Kentucky

2020
           Premiere Performance
                    Dan Kolan, Matthew Kundler, and Eli Westerfield
                    Southeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference
                    St. Vincent No. 2
                    For Trombone, Euphonium, and Tuba

                    Kennesaw, Georgia

2020           Performance by Jeremy Crawford
                    Southeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference

                    Secret Winter
                    For Solo Tuba and Piano​
                    Kennesaw, Georgia


2020           Commissioned Composer for the 2020 National School Social Work Conference
                    School Social Work Association of America
                    Baltimore, Maryland

2020    
       Featured Composer and Conductor for 2020 District 8 Children's Chorus 
                    Sing a Song for Me

                    Morehead, Kentucky

2020
           Commissioned Composer for the Barren County Junior High School's
                    Performance
 at the Kentucky Music Educators Annual Conference
                    The Last Card She Sent​
                    Louisville, Kentucky


2020           Commissioned Composer for the Bowling Green Junior High School's
                    Performance
 at the Kentucky Music Educators Annual Conference
                    The Mask We Wear​
                    Louisville, Kentucky


2019            Performance by Kelley Shoger
                    
Beauty, Identity, and Release    
                    
For Live Actor, Projection, and Fixed Audio
                    
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
                    
Emerald Theatre/Greenside Venues - Edinburgh Scotland

2019            Performance by Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre
                    
Kinder Things    
                    
For Dancers, Singers, Two Clarinets, Flute, and Fixed Audio
                    
University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2019            Showing on UA Contemporary Ensemble Concert
                    
May I Take Your Picture?    
                    
Film
                    
University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2019            Performance by UA Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble
                    
St. Vincent 
                    
Arrangement for Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble
                    
International Tuba Euphonium Conference
                    University of Iowa, Iowa City

2019            Commission from Steven Cohen
                    
Sonata for Horn and Piano
                    
Scheduled for Premiere in Fall of 2019
                    New York, New York

2019            Selected for Presentation at International Conference
                    Theatre Between Tradition and Contemporaneity
                    Explorations of Loss
                    
For Solo Performer with Fixed Media

                    Styria Province, Austria

2018            Official Selection - Blowup Film Fest
​                    Chicago Arthouse International Film Festival
                    May I Take Your Picture? 


2018            Performance by United States Army Field Band
                    
This Must Be What Keeps Them Quiet
                    
Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble
                    
International Horn Society Conference
                    
Ball State University - Muncie, Indiana

2018            Performance by Joshua Williams
                    
Secret Winter    
                    
For Solo Horn and Piano
                    
International Horn Society Conference
                    
Ball State University - Muncie, Indiana

2018            Selected for Performance at 2019 National Conference Society of Composers, Incorporated
                    
St. Vincent
                    For Horn Quartet
                    
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2018            Collaborative Composer for One-Woman Show
                    
with Kelley Schoger, author and performer;
                    Rebecca Salzer, director and project designer
                    Beauty, Identity, Release: a theatrical study of grief and body
                    Theatre Row, New York City (initial workshop)

2018            Collaboration with University of Alabama Women’s Chorus
                    Dr. Marvin Latimer, Jr., Director
                    the thing with feathers
                    For SSAA Voices, Horn in F, and Piano
                    For Premiere Performance at the 2019 AMEA Conference
                    Birmingham, Alabama

2018            “Image and Sound to be Shuffled,” a collaboration with filmmaker and choreographer Rebecca Salzer, is an exploration of
                     the specific
conditions of experiencing art online and the potential for online space to be used as a digital performance
                     venue. The web-based piece involves a series of 90-second image and sound studies that, when randomized with the
                    “Shuffle” button, create 36 distinct visual/audio pairings. (
https://imageandsoundtobeshuffled.as.ua.edu)


2018            Presentation at 2018 KYACDA Summer Conference
                    "That’s Too Hard for My Elementary Kids!"
                    Lecture-Presentation

                    Louisville, Kentucky

2018            Performance by Mississippi State University Brass Ensemble
                    St. Vincent
                    Arrangement for Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble
                    Starkville, Mississippi

2018            Collaborative Composer and Researcher for Film
                    with Rebecca Salzer, filmmaker;
                    Anna Stavrakopoulou, writer
                    Rule 19

2018            Performance by Matthew Meadows
                    Secret Winter
                    For Solo Horn and Piano
                    Senior Recital

                    The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa

2018            Collaborative Performance with Soloist Joshua Williams
                    Tide Talks XXII
                    Secret Winter
                    For Solo Horn and Piano
                    The University of Alabama


2018            Named a Delegate for the 2018 University of Alabama Greece Initiative

2018            Performances at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Five Performances)
                    Cesium Singing
​                    
For Dancers, Audience, and Cell Phones

                    Edinburgh, Scotland

2018            Featured in Performance by Yonder Dance Company
                    Cesium Singing
                    
For Dancers, Audience, and Cell Phones

                    The Dance Foundation - Birmingham, Alabama

2018             Featured in Performance by Yonder Dance Company
                     Cesium Singing
                     
For Dancers, Audience, and Cell Phones

                     North Alabama Dance Festival - Florence, Alabama

2018            Featured in Performance by Yonder Dance Company
                    Cesium Singing
                    
For Dancers, Audience, and Cell Phones

                    Buckman Theatre - Memphis, Tennessee

2018            Featured in Performance by Yonder Dance Company
                    Cesium Singing
                    
For Dancers, Audience, and Cell Phones

                    Morris and Rae Frank Theatre - Atlanta, Georgia

2018            Premiere Performance
                    Charles “Skip” Snead, horn
                    Southeast Horn Workshop
                    Villain Hell (to hail with the chief)
                    For Horn and Fixed Media

                    University of Georgia - Athens, Georgia

2018            Premiere Performance
                    Since What He Wants is Sky and Open Air
                    For Horn Quintet

                    Murray State University - Murray, Kentucky

2018            Grant Received for Michael Kallstrom Mini-Residency and Commission
                    University of Alabama School of Music Master’s Series
                    The University of Alabama

2017            Selected for Showing
                    
The International Experimental Film Forum
                    Los Angeles, California
                    May I Take Your Picture?

2017            Grant Received
                    The University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences
                    Rule 19
                    Rule 19 is a continuation of Rebecca Salzer's and my research into the global crisis of forcibly displaced people, begun in
                    Fall, 2015, and resulting in multiple performances, screenings, and presentations. Our participation in the May, 2016 cohort
                    of faculty traveling to Greece allowed us to deepen this research. In Thessaloniki, we met the faculty at the Aristotle
                    University School of Drama, and forged a connection with Dr. Anna Stavrakopoulou, with whom we continue to
​                    collaborate.


2017            Featured Composer and Conductor for the 2017 Kentucky Music Educators
                    Association Kentucky District 4 Honor Children’s Chorus
                    
Bardstown, Kentucky

2017            Recipient of the 2017 UA Dancers’ Choice Award
                   University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance

2017           Selected for Performance in Concert by the
                  TransAtlantic Horn Quartet
                  T. Marshall Jones Fine Arts and Lyceum Performance Series
                  St. Vincent
                  Albany State University - Albany, Georgia

2017          Selected for Performance on Faculty Recital
                  Brittany Hendricks, flugelhorn
                  Angle of the Ocean
                 
For Solo Flugelhorn

                  Ball State University - Muncie, Indiana

2017          Collaborative Performance on Graduate Student Recital
                  Eli Westerfield, tuba
                  Lavender Cigarette
                 
For Solo Tuba and Fixed Audio/Video

                  The University of Alabama

2017           Commissioned Composer for the 2017 Kentucky Music Educators Association Kentucky Children’s Chorus
                   Louisville, Kentucky

2017           Premiere performance
                   
It’s Time
                  
For Three-Part Treble Voices and Piano

                   2017 Kentucky Music Educators Association
                   Kentucky Children’s Chorus
                   Kentucky Performing Arts Center
                   Louisville, Kentucky

2017            Collaborative Performance on Undergraduate Student Recital
                    Haley Funkhouser, horn
                    Secret Winter
                    
For Solo Horn and Piano

                    The University of Alabama

2016            Premiere of Opera
                    
Freedom and Fire! A Civil War Story
                    
For Singers and Live Electronics

                    University of Alabama Opera Theatre
                    Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2016            Selected for Performance at International Conference ClarinetFest
                    Pit-a-Pat-a-Pavane
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    Lawrence, Kansas

2016            Selected for Performance in Concert by the Cavell Trio
                    I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    The University of Alabama

2016            Selected for Performance on Recital by Skip Snead
                    Secret Winter  
                    For Solo Horn and Piano  
        

                    The University of Kentucky - Lexington, Kentucky

2016            Selected for Collaboration with Fine Arts Faculty Members of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
                    in conjunction with the
University of Alabama Greece Initiative

2016            Selected for Performance at the International Double Reed Society’s 45th Annual Conference
                    I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    Columbus, Georgia

2016            Selected for Performance on Applied Faculty Recital
                    Osiris Molina, clarinet
                    Simple Music No. 3
                    
For Clarinet, Horn, Cello, and Piano

                    The University of Alabama

2016            Collaborative Performance with Choreographer Rebecca Salzer
                    University of Alabama Contemporary Music Ensemble
                    The Flow of Boats
                   
For Dancers, Audience, and Cell Phones

                    Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2016            Collaborative Performance with Choreographer Rebecca Salzer
                    Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre
                    The Flow of Boats
                    
For Dancers, Audience, and Cell Phones

                    The University of Alabama

2016            Collaborative Performance on Graduate Student Recital
                    Joshua Williams, horn
                    Secret Winter
                    
For Solo Horn and Piano

                    The University of Alabama

2016            Selected for Performance at the 2016 International Tuba Euphonium Conference
                    St. 
Vincent 
                    Arrangement for Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble

                    University of Tennessee - Knoxville

2016            Selected for Performance at the 2016 University of Southern Mississippi
                    New Music Festival
                    What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
                    
Solo for Soprano Voice and Piano

                    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

2016            Selected for Performance at the 2016 Society of Composers, Inc.
                    Region III Conference
                    St. Vincent
                   
For Horn Quartet

                    Marshall University - Huntington, West Virginia

2015            Named Semi-Finalist for the American Prize in Music Composition
                    Two Girls and a Boy
                    
For Woodwind Trio


2015            Selected for Performance at the 2015 Electronic Music Midwest National Festival
                    Soundtrack for Brad’s eHarmony Profile
                    
Digital Composition

                    Kansas City, Kansas

2015             Selected for Performance at the 2015 PARMA International New Music Festival
                     Soundtrack for Brad’s eHarmony Profile
                     
Digital Composition

                     Portsmouth, New Hampshire

2015            Selected for Performance at the 2015 International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest
                    I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    Madrid, Spain

2015            Selected for Performance at the 17th Annual Saxophone World Congress
                    Unknown, Lovely, Sad and Shimmering
                    
For Alto Saxophone, Alto Flute, and Percussion

                    Strasbourg, France

2015            Selected for Performance at the 2015 Hot Springs National Music Festival
                    I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    Hot Springs, Arkansas

2015            Selected for Performance at the 2015 Southeastern Horn Workshop
                    My Way, And Now…
                   
For Two Horns, Hammond Organ, Piano, Electric Guitar, and Fixed Media

                    Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2015             Selected for Performance at the 2015 International Clarinet Association Southeastern Festival
                     I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms
                     
For Woodwind Trio

                     Birmingham, Alabama

2015            Selected for Performance on the Vanderbilt University Guest Artist Recital Series
                    I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    Nashville, Tennessee

2014            Featured Composer on iTunes SoundNotion.tv New Music and Music New Podcast (August)

2014            Selected for Performance at the 2014 International Clarinet Association Conference                                        
                    Two Girls and a Boy
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2014            Selected for Performance at the 2014 Hot Springs National Music Festival
                    Two Girls and a Boy
                    
For Woodwind Trio

                    Hot Springs, Arkansas

2014            Selected Conductor for 2015 Kentucky Music Educators Association All-State Children’s Chorus
                    Louisville, Kentucky

2014            Selected for Performance at the 2014 Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference
                    Soundtrack for Brad’s eHarmony Profile
                    
Digital Composition

                    Ball State University - Muncie, Indiana

2014            Selected Conductor for 2014 Kentucky Music Educator’s Association
                    District III Children’s Honor Chorus
                    Bowling Green, Kentucky

2013            Selected for Performance at Oxford Brookes University's International Audiograft Annual Festival
                    Soundtrack for Brad’s eHarmony Profile
                    
Digital Composition

                    United Kingdom

2013            Selected for Publication in the International Journal of Contemporary Composition
                    EXAUDI! voces ecclesiae
                    For Organ and Fixed Media
                    (March)


2013            Frederic Goossen Memorial Composition Competition - Second Prize
                    Prelude to the Holy Dark
                    
For Solo 
Piano

2013            Frederic Goossen Memorial Composition Competition - Honorable Mention
                    EXAUDI! voces ecclesiaeI
                    
For Organ and Fixed Media


2013            Commission from Redeemer Lutheran Church
​                    Ode to Barbecue Sauce
                    
For SATB Voices

                    Redeemer Lutheran Concert Series
                    Atlanta, Georgia

2013            Commission from Trumpeter Brittany Hendricks
                    The Angle of the Ocean
                    
For Solo Flugelhorn


2012            Selected Composer for Boston Metro Opera’s
                    Contemporary Americana Art Song Festival
                    Love Sounded
                   
For Solo Soprano and Piano

                    Boston, Massachusetts

2012            Invitation to Join Artist Roster of Price-Rubin & Associates

2012            Selected Composer for University of Mary Washington’s
                    Electroacoustic Barn Dance
                    Soundtrack for Brad’s e-Harmony Profile
                    
Digital Composition

                    Fredericksburg, Virginia

2012            Commission from the University of Alabama Opera Theatre
                    Over Dinner
                   
Full-Length Musical 


2012            Featured Composer on ComposersCircle.com
                    (July 7)

2012            Commission from Dr. Judy Bonner, President, The University of Alabama
                    Celebrating Achievement
                   
For Carillon


2012            Commission from Western Kentucky University Department of Music
                    To A Red Sun
                    
For SATB Voices and Fixed Media

                    Bowling Green, Kentucky

2012            Commission from Briarwood Elementary School
                    Stand With Me
                    
For Two-Part Treble Voices and Piano

                    Bowling Green, Kentucky

2012            Selected for publication in the International Journal of Contemporary Composition
                    Prelude to the Holy Dark
                    
​For Solo Piano
​                    (June)



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