Category: Composing
Notes on my inspirations and processes when I write music
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New music so far this year
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Read more: New music so far this yearI’ve been creating a lot of new pieces this year. I get a boost from reviewing past work!
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Contests as inspiration
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Read more: Contests as inspirationSometimes a contest specification resonates with a project I already want to do…
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Play Book Party
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Read more: Play Book PartyPlay Book is my new music book and CD — a collection of pieces I’ve written for piano students, plus music by those piano students.

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Free sheet music from Spindrift Music
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Read more: Free sheet music from Spindrift MusicI’m fond of May, with its birds, sprouting gardens, my birthday, etc.
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Two new pieces of music – Resonances and Zoa
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Read more: Two new pieces of music – Resonances and ZoaResonances is a new publication in the Spindrift Music Catalog: for alto sax, trumpet, 2 trombones, 2 percussion. Check out the score preview or listen to the the audio demo: a performance from 1999. I don’t know why it took me so long to make this piece available. I guess there was no urgency; it’s…
