News
FINALIST | April 2013
Finalist for the American Academy in Rome‘s 2013–14 Rome Prize in Musical Composition (selected as alternate).
CONFERENCE ACCEPTANCE | April 2013
anima/animus selected for performance at the 2013 College Music Society National Conference, 31 October–2 November 2013, Cambridge, MA.
WINNER | March 2013
First place in the 2013 Third Angle/Russell New Ideas In Music Competition.
FESTIVAL ACCEPTANCE | February 2013
Selected as a composition fellow for the 2013 Aspen Summer Music Festival, 27 June–18 August 2013, Aspen, CO.
FEATURE | February 2013
Nick and his string quartet reach featured on Composers Circle, a website dedicated to presenting one work by one new composer every day.
ACCEPTANCE | December 2012
anima/animus selected for performance at the 2013 New Music Miami ISCM Festival, Spring 2013, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
WINNER | December 2012
Winner of the 2013 East Carolina New Music Festival Orchestra Composition Competition, East Carolina University Symphony Orchestra, 23 March 2013, Greenville, NC.
RUNNER UP | December 2012
reach named runner up in the 2013 RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
CONFERENCE ACCEPTANCE | December 2012
anima/animus chosen for the 2013 SCI National Conference, 13–16 February 2013, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
WINNER | December 2012
Winner of the 2013 MACRO Composition Competition with reach, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO,
includes session presentation on reach at the MACRO Musicians Workshop, 22 June 2013, Madison, WI.
WINNER | November 2012
Second Place Winner of the 8th Annual Chengdu China Sun River Prize, Chengdu, CHINA.
FESTIVAL ACCEPTANCE | November 2012
Selected as a composition fellow at the UCDavis: Worlds of Discovery and Loss: The Art of Migration Festival 30 Jan–3 Feb 2013,
includes performance of reach by the Calder Quartet, 2–3 Feb 2013, Davis, CA.
FINALIST | October 2012
For the 2013 Third Angle/Russell New Ideas In Music Competition. Performance of new work 21 March 2013, Portland, OR.
FINALIST | September 2012
For the Mivos Quartet‘s Kanter/Mivos String Quartet Composition Prize 2012, New York City, NY.
WORKSHOP ACCEPTANCE | September 2012
With Hanspeter Kyburz and ECCE at the Goethe-Institut with falling through infinity, 21–22 Sept 2012, Boston, MA.
NEW PERFORMANCE | September 2012
three poems of emily dickinson selected for performance at the New Voices @ CUA festival, 25–26 January 2013 in Washington, DC.
HONORABLE MENTION | September 2012
Selected as honorable mention in the 2012 Sioux City Symphony Orchestra’s Composer of the Year competition, IA.
RECORDING RELEASED | August 2012
danza di fuoco, recorded by Omar Fassa on the album Aftermath, available for download at Amazon.com and iTunes (track 8).
INTERVIEW | August 2012
Kansas City Star‘s “Classical Beat” column by Patrick Neas, A+E section, 12 August 2012. (Click here for full interview.)
FINALIST | July 2012
SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Region VI Winner with reach. Piece will advance to Final Round for possible commission.
FINALIST | June 2012
With reach for New Music Miami‘s section of the ISCM 2014 World Music Days being held in Warsaw, Poland.
NEW PERFORMANCE | June 2012
Jasper String Quartet to perform reach on Classic Chamber Concerts series, 4 February 2013 in Naples, FL.
NEW PERFORMANCE | June 2012
invisible worlds programmed on the SCI Region VI Conference in October 2012 at West Texas A&M, Canyon, TX.
NEW PERFORMANCE | June 2012
Animus Ensemble to perform anima / animus on 25 July 2012 at the New School of Music, Boston, MA.
NEW PERFORMANCE | June 2012
Michael Burns, bassoon to perform insights in July 2012 at the IDRS conference, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
WINNER | April 2012
2012 Beijing Modern Music Festival‘s Young Composer Project with anima / animus, performance in May 2012.
INTERVIEW | April 2012
KCMetropolis.org‘s Movers, Shakers, Stalwarts series. (Click here for full interview.)
REVIEW | February 2012
newEar’s performance of invisible worlds in Kansas City Star and KCMetropolis.org (full review here).
INVITATION | January 2012
From the Académie internationale to compose a new work for le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne at le Domaine Forget, August 2012.
WINNER | January 2012
Random Access Music‘s 2011 call for scores with …from within; performances in New York in March 2012. Click here for more.
COMMISSION | January 2012
New work for the l’Orchestre de la Francophonie at the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute in Ottawa, Canada in June 2012.
NEW PERFORMANCE | December 2011
Brendan Bondurant, guitar to perform danza di fuoco in Kansas City and New York in March 2012. Click here for more.
NOMINATION | October 2011
For an award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
