This is the premiere performance of a new composition I finished last month, entitled “Antiphon, Lament, and Exaltation.” It was commissioned by the Sycamore Trio (my friends Dan Mattix, Katie Mattix, and Luke Lusk) with an excellent though underused instrumentation of violin, clarinet, and piano. The piece is in three movements, which the performers requested [...]

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. [...]

Sixth in a series featuring songs from my CD New Creation. For more information, read this link. The Song Behind the Song This was one of the first songs that my wife Carrie and I wrote together after we were married. The words are based on several passages from the Old Testament, notably Psalm 32 [...]

In 2010, Alliance Music Publications published my arrangement (for TTBB choir + piano) of the Irish folk song “Mick McGuire.” It’s a comical number about a hapless bloke who woos a girl but, astonishingly enough, doesn’t get on quite as well with her mother. Since then, it seems to have achieved a wee bit of [...]

This is a choral arrangement I did for our church a while back. We performed it again this year in our Christmas program, and Jenna recorded this video. Like most live recordings it has a bit of background noise, but I suppose of all the pieces I’ve written, this one goes best with various interjections from [...]

Fifth in a series featuring songs from my CD New Creation. For more information, read this link. The Song Behind the Song Carrie Elizabeth Ellis Breck (1855-1934) was a natural poet. Although she claimed she had no sense of pitch, she wrote more than 2,000 devotional lyrics while holding down the full-time job of homemaker and mother to [...]