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Events/Performances

Current/upcoming Projects

Hymn to the Evening for SATB choir & piano (in progress) commissioned by Missouri Baptist University, dir. Jordan Cox

Untitled Work for orchestra for Jeremy Begbie

& the Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA)

September 4-7, 2025

2024

January 25

This Breathless Earth

Elmhurst University Chamber Choir

IL Music Educators Association  

 

January 26

Souls Like Birds

Symphony Irvine

St. Dominic Savio Church

Bellflower, CA

April 14 

como los que sueñan 

for solo cello

performed by Amali Premawardhana

Elmhurst University Buik Hall

 

April 28

This Breathless Earth

Elmhurst University Chamber Choir

Hammerschmidt Chapel, Elmhurst, IL

Elmhurst University

April 28

Alzaré

for organ

performed by Michael Koenig

Exeter College Choral Evensong, Oxford, UK

As part of the Deus Ex Musica Exeter Psalm Postludes Recording Project

May 5

Ballenas

for wind ensemble

Elmhurst University, premiere

Hammerschmidt Chapel, Elmhurst University

May 29

Holy Midnight of the Soul

SATB choir, premiere at the George MacDonald Bicentennial Conference

Wheaton College, IL

https://www.george-macdonald.com/

June 9

Malambo Urbano

for string orchestra

dir. Taka Matsunaga

Sociedad de Música de Cámara de El Salvador, premiere

San Salvador, El Salvador

June 13

Alzaré

for organ

performed by Michael Koenig

Exeter College Organ Concert at 8 pm BST, Oxford, UK

Deus Ex Musica Exeter Psalm Postludes Recording Project

June 14

Delfín

dir. Xavier Beteta

Guatemala Contemporánea
Festival de COMPOSICIÓN
12-15 de Junio de 2024

Guatemala City, Guatemala

September 29 & November 8

¡VAMOS! Premiere (Revised Version), 2024

Northern Illinois University

Click for Information

October 15 

Monarcas NEW WORK Premiere

New Music Chicago Presents:

"Three Latin Americans ..."

Click for Information

October 19

NEW CHORAL PREMIERE

Covenant College

Chattanooga, TN

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October 26

Después de la lluvia (for Level 2 strings)

Contemporary Integration Orchestra Project

Youngstown, OH

November 15 

Monarcas NEW WORK Premiere

Sturgeon Bay, WI

Information forthcoming


 

Choral Premieres for 2025 Forthcoming!

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2023

January 27

SOULS LIKE BIRDS

performed by Symphony Irvine

dir. Dean Anderson, For more information, click here 

St. Dominic Savio Roman Catholic Church

Bellflower, CA 

March 11

MUSE 

performed by Corona Symphony Orchestra

dir. Marco Mejia, For tickets, click here

Northpoint Church (postponed premiere)

Corona, CA

April 21

RISA AZUL 

performed by Young Orchestra of Integration

dir. Diego F. Carrión Granda

Biblioteca de Literatura Extranjera Rudomino

Moscow, Russia

May 7 

¡VAMOS! 

performed by the Great Woods Symphony Orchestra 

dir. Delvyn Case

Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Arts

Wheaton College

Norton, MA

 

June 17

United States National Anthem (arr.) 

performed by Corona Symphony Orchestra

dir. Marco Mejia, For tickets, click here

Northpoint Church

Corona, CA

June  23 

como los que sueñan 

for solo cello, Midwest Premiere

performed by Teresa Richardson

Meetinghouse Church 

Edina, MN

CFAMC Conference

June  23 

Meditations on Psalm VIII - Oh Lord, how majestic

for solo cello

performed by Robert Nicholson

Campbellsville University

MasterWorks Summer Festival 

Campbellsville, KY

September 19

Meditations on Psalm VIII

solo cello

performed by T.J. Borden

Wheaton College

Wheaton, IL

Free Concert showcasing new cello works

For more information, click here

September 24 

SONDEA

for solo violin

performed by Angela Hanson

Bethel University

St. Paul, Minnesota

September 28 

SONDEA

for solo violin

performed by Angela Hanson

Free Lutheran Bible College

Plymouth, Minnesota

October 15

WHEN STONE BECOMES FOREST

for concert band

Elmhurst University

Hammerschmidt Chapel

 

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ALBUM RELEASE

All In The Waiting for viola & piano

Commissioned by Lauren Hodges

Available on Amazon

Click here to purchase physical album

2022

March 1

ALL IN THE WAITING for viola & piano, World Premiere 

Commissioned by Lauren Hodges, Assistant Professor of Viola at the University of Florida

March 11

TABERNACLE for solo piano, Midwest Premiere 

Trinity International University, Mary Vanhoozer

March 22

THIS BREATHLESS EARTH for SATB

Commissioned by Trinity International University

& California Baptist University

Calvary Presbyterian Church, West Coast Premiere

April 3

DOS PALABRAS

Springfield Chamber Chorus, Purchase Tickets

April 29, THIS BREATHLESS EARTH for SATB

Commissioned by Trinity International University

& California Baptist University

Trinity International University, Midwest Premiere

June 3-18

Music for Courtyard Shakespeare Festival

Original Score for Richard III (electronic)

Original Score for Much Ado About Nothing (big band jazz)

To purchase tickets, visit FB page or Wallace Theater (CBU)

July 19

HOW LONG YAHWEH? 

Thereza Lituma, Mike McAndrew

Bay View, Voorhies Auditorium

Michigan

August 3 & 4

I SEE YOUR WORLD IN LIGHT

Conference Choir

2022 C. S. Lewis Summer Institute

Oxford, England 

August 4

MORNING INTO DANCING

Mary Vanhoozer

2022 C. S. Lewis Summer Institute

Oxford, England 

October 20

como los que sueñan

for solo viola, East Coast premiere

Commissioned by Deus Ex Musica

Old South Church, Boston, MA

RISA AZUL for strings, voice, piano, and percussion

Orquesta Joven De La Integración

Moscow, Russia 

(premiere postponed 2023)

December 18

I SEE YOUR WORLD IN LIGHT

Immanuel Lutheran Church

Riverside, CA

 

2022 RECORDINGS

Sondea for solo violin

Commissioned by Deus Ex Musica

(Summer 2022 release on Amazon, iTunes, etc)

2021

May 15

Darkness Is My Only Friend

Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology, Cambridge (UK) Online Concert

October 28-29

I Am Barabbas

Istanbul, Turkey

November 5

When Stone Becomes Forest

California Baptist University Wind Ensemble

Northpoint Church

Corona, CA

November 13

How Long, Yahweh?

Gordon College, MA

December 12

I See Your World In Light

Immanuel Lutheran Church

December 14

See Your World In Light (virtual choir)

Padre Nuestro (virtual choir)

Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology, Cambridge (UK) Online Advent Service


2020

January 24, St. Dominic Savio Roman Catholic Church

Bellflower, CA 

Souls Like Birds, performed by Symphony Irvine

dir. Dean Anderson, For more information, click here 

March 21, Northpoint Church (postponed premiere, TBA)

Corona, CA 

PROST! a Toast to Beethoven 

performed by Corona Symphony Orchestra

dir. Marco Mejia, For tickets, click here

April 7, Istanbul, Turkey (postponed premiere, TBA)

I Am Barabbas, performed by Robert McDonald, Julian Taylor,

Marilyn Marks Taylor, Christina Wong, and Seth Russell

April 28, California Baptist University (postponed, TBA)

Sonata for Violin and Piano performed by JinHee Kim

May 4, online video premiere

Halo My Path

virtual choir

June 12, online video performance

I See Your World In Light

virtual choir

August 9, online video premiere

Dos Palabras

virtual choir

October 31, online video premiere

Darkness Is My Only Friend

virtual choir

November 16, Carrefour Chamber Music Project

Into Bright Shadows (Mov. II) performed by Carrefour Chamber Musicians

April-November, multiple online events

How Long Yahweh? For voice and piano

2019
January 25, St. Dominic Savio Roman Catholic Church

Souls Like Birds, performed by Symphony Irvine dir. Alvaro Gabriel Diaz Rodriguez 

January 30, California Baptist University

The Sharp Clarities and Vagueness of  a Dream

performed by the CBU Chamber Orchestra

dir. by Angela Brand

February 5, College of the Ozarks

Partita Picosa performed by Mary Vanhoozer

February 6, College of the Ozarks

Guest Lecture: Introduction to the Music of Alberto Ginastera

February 7, Oklahoma Baptist University

Partita Picosa performed by Mary Vanhoozer

February 11, University of Tulsa

Guest Lecture: Introduction to the Music of Alberto Ginastera

February 26,  BIOLA University

Composition Forum Guest Artist

March 13, California Baptist University

Sonata for Violin and Piano, performed by Erica Ward and Mary Vanhoozer

March 26, California Baptist University

The Sharp Clarities and Vagueness of  a Dream

performed by the CBU Chamber Orchestra

dir. by Matthew McConnell

Original score for Shakespeare's Hamlet

June 6, 8, 13, 15, 21, Courtyard Shakespeare Festival
June 7, 14, 20, 22, Courtyard Shakespeare Festival
Original score for Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
June 28, Old South Church, Boston MA

How Long, Yahweh? 

Performed by Carrie Cheron and Julia Carey

Deus Ex Musica Concert

August 17, Beck Center for the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Meditations on Psalm VIII

Performed by Robert Nicholson

October 5, Westmont College (Santa Barbara)

Partita Picosa performed by Mary Vanhoozer

October 18, Mississippi College, MS 

The Infinite a Sudden Guest for SATB, violin, &  ethnic percussion

Mississippi College Choir, dir. Mark Nabholz

October 18, Belhaven University, MS 
Partita Picosa performed by Mary Vanhoozer

October 23, Denison University, OH

Partita Picosa performed by Mary Vanhoozer

December 7 & 8, California Baptist University

Love's Pure Light: a Fantasia on "Silent Night" 

Performed by the CBU choir, orchestra & wind ensemble

For tickets, please click here.

December 15, Immanuel  Lutheran Church

Riverside, CA

I See Your World In Light 

Performed by the Immanuel Lutheran Church choir

dir. Alex Waggoner

2018
November 14, 2018: Biola University, CA

Into Bright Shadows

Performed by Pear Tree and Partridge, and special guest Robert Nicholson on cello

November 11, 2018: Westmont College, CA

Into Bright Shadows

Performed by Pear Tree and Partridge, and special guest Robert Nicholson on cello

November 9, 2018: California Baptist University

Into Bright Shadows

Performed by Pear Tree and Partridge, and special guest Robert Nicholson on cello

October 17, 2018: California Baptist University

Partita Picosa

Performed by Mary Vanhoozer

April 29, 2018: Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts, CA

Partita Picosa

Performed by Mary Vanhoozer

April 8, 2018: Southminster Presbyterian Church of Prarie Village, Kansas

I being poor have only my dreams

Performed by Kenton Lanier

Masters Recital, University of Missouri, Kansas City  

January 30, 2018: University of California Los Angeles

Contra Spem Spero, featuring Miroslava Khomik on violin along with UCLA Alumni Chamber Orchestra

January 30, University of California Los Angeles, Schoenberg Hall

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