No new orchestral works this year, sadly, but two wind ensemble works are new, and newly published!

To kick things off, who says it's too early to start thinking about your 2021 Christmas holiday concert? Give this energetic and fun Grade 6 medley of public-domain Christmas tunes a listen - A Wild Christmas Nightcap is one wild, epic ride you won't soon forget. A perfect concert opener or closer.

Just published yesterday - my friend and colleague, composer extraordinaire Harrison J. Collins, has created an excellent transcription of my orchestral work The Floodgates of the Sky, now available for wind ensemble! This Grade 5 piece is based on the Noah's Ark story - specifically, the moment when the big storm arrives. My sincerest gratitude to Harrison for taking the time this year to create this excellent transcription of this piece.

Two new chamber pieces are available!

All I Wonder was written for Sputter Box's miniatures project "Sputter (SHRINKS THE) Box," meant to create new music and help artists and composers during the pandemic. This piece is one such experience I had this year at the beginning of the pandemic. Sputter Box has created an album of this project - please consider buying it and supporting this fantastic group!

Before the pandemic began, the NASA 2020 Biennial Conference was able to happen last March at Arizona State University. Saxophonists Ben MacDonald and Matthew Hartson commissioned me to write them a new work for tenor saxophone and piano that would showcase the versatility and artistry of an instrument whose repertoire is continuing to now quickly grow.

Excursions is the result of this commission and is an abstract road trip of sorts through four different geographical landscapes. You can hear Ben's wonderful world premiere of the piece at NASA 2020 (with the AMAZING Casey Dierlam Tse on piano) below: