So I’ve recently started work on a violin concerto for my friend Jared Starr. I grew up playing violin, and though I never progressed passed an intermediate level, writing a concerto for the instrument feels like a kind of homecoming to me. Here’s a video of David Oistrakh playing Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, my favorite […]
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Book of Imaginary Beings
I received word just yesterday that my proposal to write a piece for Eric Hansen, Skyler Murray, and Scott Holden—all fabulous musicians—was accepted by the Barlow Endowment, who awarded me a grant to write a 15–20 minute piece for bass, saxophone, and piano. Seeing how the endowment has given grants to a couple dozen Pulitzer […]
Continue readingConcert Coming Up!
The BYU Philharmonic will be performing my piece “Summer Has Ten Thousand Stars” in a bit less than two weeks, on April 10 at 8:00 p.m. The concert is part of a celebration KBYU is having for its 50th Anniversary. For more information about the concert, visit here.
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