I am so pleased that members of the “Flute New Music Consortium” are performing “Tutti Frutti” in various flute festivals in the next little bit.  This coming weekend, January 28, Kallie Snyder and Sarah Jane Young will be performing it in Orlando at the Florida Flute Association Convention, then Brittany Trotter and Emily Nazario will perform it during the Mid-Southern Flute Association Convention held in Hattiesburg, Mississippi from March 31 through April 1.  March and I are going to head down to Florida to hear the concert this weekend.  In honor of these upcoming performances I’m going to make “Tutti Frutti” my featured work of the moment!

I’m excited that my new piece “Falling Up” will be premiered on Monday (if the weather permits it) as part of a “treefalls” program being held at the Taphouse in Spartanburg.  The concert will begin at 7:00pm and will last approximately an hour.  “treefalls” is a New Music group formed by my former student Peter Kay.  It has brought all kinds of vitality to Spartanburg in my opinion!!  “Falling Up” is written for Flute, Oboe, Synthesizer and special effects.  I’m running the performance through “Mainstage” and incorporating a Looper and some special microphone effects.  I’m posting a mock-up of “Falling Up” as my “Featured Composition” until after the performance.  I hope people can attend the concert, and enjoy the music.  It is kind of a new style for me, and it is pretty challenging to run all the special effects!