March 2012

• Visiting composer with Ohio Northern University leading up to the premiere of Harold in Germany performed and commissioned by the ONU Wind Orchestra under Dr. Thomas Hunt [2/28/2012 - 3/1/2012]

February 2012

• Yale Concert Band under Dr. Thomas Duffy performs Parliament in Flight, accompanied by a newly commissioned animation for their concert "The Silver Screen" at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut [2/10/2012]

January 2012

• Interdisciplinary residency at the KHN Center for the Arts in Nebraska [1/16-30/2012]

• Received a grant from New Music USA [1/3/2011]

December 2011

• Received Special Mention Citation from International Music Prize [12/18/2011]

• Exhibiting in Chicago, IL with Noisi Paintr Music (#1120-1122) at the 2011 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic [12/14-17/2011]

• Guam Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, under Dr. Stephen Bednarzyk performs Love Was Born at Ypao Beach Amphitheatre in Tumon, Guam [12/11/2011]

• Shreveport Contemporary Ensemble (LA) performs La place Saint Sulpice with French poet Anna Plissoneau in Feazel Instrumental Hall [12/8/2011]

• Big thanks to Dan Hopkins and the Cumberland High School Concert Band (WI) for recording a read-through of No Apologies [12/7/2011]

November 2011

• No Apologies for Concert Band completed [11/25/2011]

• Awarded a residency to the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts [11/18/2011]

• Belgian ensemble Voces Capituli performs Munda Cor Meum at Parochie Sint-Laurentius in Antwerp [11/12/2011]

• 70th Anniversary "Rhapsody in View" Concert with Centenary College Choir in Shreveport, LA [11/6/2011]

September 2011

• Peforming for LRCA's homecoming in Little Rock, AR [9/20/2011]

• Mentorship with David Amram [9/18/2011 - 9/25/2011]

August 2011

• O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go, new music to traditional lyrics, commissioned by Jennifer McDowell completed [8/13/2011]

• Concert of Poésies Sonores (poems read live to my music) with French poet Anna Plissoneau at Olive Street Bistro [8/1/2011]

May 2011

• Mentorship with recording engineer Gary Leach [5/10-20/2011]

• Beneath the Cross of Jesus arrangement commissioned by Katie Lynn Baker performed at FUMC Shreveport for service and televised broadcast (ABC KTBS) [5/1/2011]

April 2011

• Shreveport Piano Trio performs West Monroe, Venezuelan Tango in Hurley Recital Hall [4/29/2011]

• Lecture on my music in Kilpatrick Auditorium for the 20th Annual Centenary Research Forum [4/15/2011]

• Received Award for Outstanding Service to the Community for work with the Shreveport Opera [4/14/2011]

• Shreveport's Festival Encore Orchestra and the Centenary College Choir premiere newly commissioned work Carmen Vocis [4/3/2011]

February 2011

• Louisiana's Escaped Images Dance Company presents my ballet Excavation in Marjorie Lyons Playhouse [2/28-30/2011]

• Interviewed with choreographer Renee Cheveallier regarding Excavation on Red River Radio (KDAQ Shreveport 89.9 FM) [2/22/2011]

• Recorded and produced radio promo for air on KSCL Shreveport 91.3 FM [2/10/2011]

December 2010

• Centenary College Choir records Love Was Born for Christmas broadcast [11/24/2010]

November 2010

• Current Commissions page added [11/24/2010]

• U.S. Army TRADOC Band presented Parliament in Flight at VMEA New Music Reading Session, under CPT Scott McKenzie [11/18/2010]

• Completed Love Was Born, commission for the Guam Symphony Society [11/12/2010]

• Full concert of my works presented in Anderson Auditorium at Centenary College, Shreveport, LA incuding premiere of Fuzzy Logic: Sonatina for Flute[11/4/2010]

• le rêve de la nymphe used in multimedia presentation, choreographed and staged by Brooke Carrier in Shreveport, LA

• Completed Carmen Vocis commission for the Festival Encore Orchestra and the Centenary College Choir [11/3/2010]

October 2010

• First movement of Sonatina for Flute premiered in Shreveport, LA by Lucy Fliegel and Ruben Reyes [10/28/2010]

• Parliament in Flight performed in Walnut, CA by the Mt. San Antonio Valley College Wind Ensemble [10/8/2010]

September 2010

• Completed Finale from Boudreaux, for Shreveport Opera Xpress [9/16/2010]

• Recording Improvisations: Light and Snow with Vincent Turregano [9/4/2010]

August 2010

• Received commission from the Guam Symphony Society [8/31/2010]

• Won Clyde and Marian Connelly Music Award [8/30/2010]

• Invited to audit 2011 Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop [8/28/2010]

June 2010

• Received a commission from the ONU Wind Orchestra to write a suite of pieces for their 2011 German tour. [6/26/2010]

• The Prarie Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Barr performed Parliament in Flight June 21st in Normal, Illinois. [6/18/2010]

• New website! [6/17/2010]

May 2010

• New art song completed: It is now two hours since I left you from Improvisations: Light and Snow [5/30/2010]

• Studying in Paris May 10-23 [5/9/2010]

April 2010

• Parliament in Flight selected for the 2010 National Band Association Young Composer Mentor Project [4/25/2010]

• CCC performs Battle of New Orleans in Little Rock, Arkansas [4/23/2010]

• Received Audrey May Smith Endowed Poetry Award for katerina du monde [4/22/2010]

• Father of a Deaf Girl premiered by Dennis Pevey in Anderson Auditorium, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana [4/18/2010]

March 2010

• When I was a boy and saw bright rows of icicles from Improvisations: Light and Snow premiered by Vincent Turregano [3/19/2010]