I’m excited to announce the premiere of a new composition I’ve been working on for the past several weeks. It’s a trio in three movements for piano, clarinet, and violin, which I’ve entitled “Antiphon, Lament, and Exaltation.”  The piece was commissioned by Dan Mattix, Katie Mattix, and Luke Lusk, who will also be performing the premiere. [...]

Sorry if my website has looked a bit janky for any of you over the past little while. I’ve been doing some slight updating and tweaking and redesigning, mostly to bring the music a bit more to the forefront. (More posts in that respect to follow.) I think it’s how I want it for the [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been posting here less than usual because I’ve been devoting more energy to musical pursuits. Several of them are coming up this month, and here are the details:   1. New Creation: Special offer! In case you didn’t see my earlier post, I’m currently offering my CD of hymns [...]

 So here’s the idea. It’s coming up on my birthday. A rather biggish one, which I won’t necessarily admit to, but it rhymes with “wordy.” It’s also coming up on the first anniversary of the release of my CD New Creation, the one with all the new settings of hymns on it. (You can, and [...]

I expect most of my readers are already somewhat familiar with Hillary McFarland's beautiful book and website Quivering Daughters, to which I've been honored to contribute as a writer. It addresses the spiritual and emotional abuses of women and children in the "Biblical Patriarchy" movement, though even people with no experience in that particular movement [...]

If you like my music, Or Carrie's music,  Or Jenna's music, Then you'll really like this: www.thornfieldmusic.com It's the brand-new website for Thornfield​, which is the brand-new name of our collective band. It fits precisely in the "acoustic singer-songwriter folk jazz classical blues" genre. I play the part of a keyboardist / vocalist / multi-instrumentalist, [...]