Life Has Loveliness To Sell

Life Has Loveliness To Sell was composed to celebrate the 90th annual Stephen Collins Foster Summer Music Camp on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University. I have had the privilege of conducting the high school choir at this camp since 2012. The piece was premiered at the Grand Finale concert at the EKU Center for the Arts on June 30, 2025.

Scoring: SATB, piano
Text: Sara Teasdale
Duration: 2:45
Publisher: manuscript

PERUSAL SCORE: coming soon
RECORDING: coming soon

WORLD PREMIERE (starts at 22:03)

"Exsultate" published by Hinshaw Music

 Exsultate is now available from Hinshaw Music!

A Golden Day

A Golden Day was commissioned by the Eastern Arizona College Women's Chorale and their director, Chase Moore (one of my former graduate students at EKU). I had the privilege to visit Arizona and work with the choir in March 2020, the very week that the world was shutting down... The piece finally received its premiere in the spring of 2022.

Scoring: SSAA, piano
Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Duration: 4:30
Publisher: manuscript

PERUSAL SCORE: coming soon

RECORDING: coming soon

There Alway Something Sings

There Alway Something Sings was commissioned and premiered by the 2021 Daviess County (Owensboro, KY) Public Schools Honor Choir as a virtual choir.

Scoring: Two-part, piano
Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Duration: 3:30
Publisher: manuscript

PERUSAL SCORE

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"Thou Art My Lute" published by Hinshaw Music

Thou Art My Lute is now available from Hinshaw Music!