Question 1

COMMMISSIONS

Accepted Answer

White Snake Projects: Requiem Tomatina
Utah Opera | Golden Spike Commission: Burial
MIFA Victory Players | Canción Exaltada
Boston Opera Collaborative | A Case of Anxiety • Triangle • She's Fabulous
Justin Vickers, tenor | Same-Heart Knot • War Wedding
Joseph Conyers, double bass | Shadow Confrontations
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | Les Bouteilles de la Table Ronde
Network for New Music | Automata • Passages
American Composers Forum, Philadelphia | New Voices Commission: Curious Habit of Madre Usimbalda

Question 2

HONORS

Accepted Answer

The American Opera Project | Composers & the Voice Fellowship
Fort Worth Opera | Frontiers New Work Showcase: Triangle
International Society of Bassists | Grand Prize Winner, David Walter Competition: Shadow Confrontations
National Opera Association | Finalist, Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition: Triangle
American Prize | 2nd Place, Vocal Chamber Music: More Beautiful Than Night • 2nd Place, Opera/Theater/Dance/Film: Triangle
Third Millennium Ensemble | Winner, Cheryl A. Spector Prize: Shadow Confrontations
University of Pennsylvania | George Crumb Music Fellowship • Benjamin Franklin Fellowship • Helen L. Weiss Music Prize: War Wedding

Question 3

RESIDENCIES

Accepted Answer

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs NY
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside CA
I-Park Foundation, East Haddam CT
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga WY
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing MN
Kimmel Harding Nelson for the Arts, Nebraska City NE
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst VA
Willapa Bay AiR, Oysterville WA

Question 4

PERFORMING ENSEMBLES / PRESENTERS

Accepted Answer

OPERA / VOCAL
Utah Opera
Fort Worth Opera | Frontiers
Boston Opera Collaborative
New Opera West
One Ounce Opera 
Hartford Opera Theater 
Opera Fayetteville 
Opera on Tap (Chicago/Oklahoma City/Twin Cities)
International Opera Theater 
University of Alabama Opera Theater
Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music
Butler Opera Theatre
 
CHAMBER MUSIC / FESTIVALS
Network for New Music
Red Note New Music Festival
Illumine
People Inside Electronics
NMF Kamermuziekfestival bij Natuurmonumenten
New Music on the Bayou
Cortona Sessions for New Music
Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts Victory Players
International Guitar Research Centre
Litha Symphony Orchestra
Annenberg Center for Performing Arts

Question 5

SCHOOL LEARNIN'

Accepted Answer

University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. in Music Composition
Longy School of Music | M.M. in Music Composition
Hartt School, University of Hartford | B.M. in Music Composition
Principal Teachers: Anna Weesner, James Primosch, Jay Reise, Paul Brust, Robert Carl, Larry Alan Smith