I am thrilled to share that my chamber opera on gentrification in Portland has been awarded a $90,000 Creative Heights grant from The Oregon Community Foundation. Slated for the spring of Third Angle New Music's 2019-2020 season, SANCTUARIES will use the rhythms of jazz and slam poetry to explore gentrification and the displacement of residents of color in Portland's historically African-America Albina district.
Read MoreI am excited to get back together with my longtime duo partner, Dmitri Matheny, after far too long has passed.
Read MoreThe grades are in. The teaching studio is packed up. The instructions have been passed on to those covering my responsibilities. The "out of office" message is written. All that is left is to turn it on. I feel like a sprinter at the starting line, waiting for the gun to go off, only I’m the one who is meant to fire it.
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