Category: New Composition
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Fall Premieres and Performances
What an amazing semester this has been! I have been fortunate to have premieres of two new compositions here at Southeastern Louisiana University by guest performers. In October, cellist Craig Hultgren premiered my work Monochrome Variations with live electronics. You may find an excerpt of the work on Soundcloud: The following month saw the premiere […]
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Binding Song excerpt
A three-minute excerpt of my new work “Binding Song” for horn and violin performed by Lauren Varley (horn) and Jubal Fulks (violin). Lauren and Jubal gave a guest recital along with pianist Kevin Chance at Southeastern Louisiana University on November 14th. [coming soon]
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nief-norf Summer Music Festival
I am happy to announce that I have been selected to be a composer participant at this summer’s nief-norf Summer Festival at Furman University. The festival runs from May 29th to June 9th and features the nief-norf Percussion Ensemble workshopping new works for percussion. Read more about the festival here. For the festival, I will […]
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Tracers!
Tracers! With the upcoming North American Saxophone Alliance Conference coming up this weekend, I have saxophones on my mind! A few years back I wrote a piece for saxophone quartet with piano and electronics based on the spectral content of ring-modulated multiphonics! Doesn’t that sound cool? It needs to be performed! Help me shop this […]
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Embers by Kari Besharse – World Premiere; Interruptions III – World Premiere
On Saturday, March 19th, I had the pleasure of performing piano, along with Richard Schwartz on alto saxophone, on the world premiere of Embers by my wife Kari Besharse at the North American Saxophone Alliance Region 6 Conference at The University of North Florida. The conference was hosted by Michael Bovenzi. The conference also saw […]