The Missa Charles Darwin is now available as a digital EP prerelease from a forthcoming album of choral and vocal works on Navona. You can download the tracks from iTunes, Amazon, and other online music sources.    • iTunes    • Amazon

[post-concert photo of me with New York Polyphony & Sarah Darwin] I spent a week in Germany last month, touring with New York Polyphony and Lizzie Ball. There were three concerts on the tour, the middle show featured my Missa Charles Darwin, introduced by Sarah Darwin. [photo gallery] The concert…

New York Polyphony had me do a guest blog spot at their website this morning, talking about our upcoming Berlin show. Check it out here. [Kyrie eleison by Hilton Abbott]

I was part of the Arts After Amherst show at Kirby Theater last weekend. The variety-show format was a welcome throwback, and I had a great time hanging out in the wings with incredible co-alumni from theater, dance, music, film, and performance art. Fellow alums included Zeina Nasr (’06), Tim…

The TEDx Global Music Project has chosen my presentation with New York Polyphony at TEDxWoodsHole from October 2011 for their website. For the time being our presentation is at the top of their cover page. We are honored to be selected by the site, which “compile[s] and share[s] the best…

I had a wonderful recording session on my Missa Charles Darwin with New York Polyphony last week. Oktaven Audio did the recording and George Steel served as producer. It had been a dream of mine to get a studio-quality recording of this piece for some time and I was nervous…

This low-budget hack came about as a result of trying to find a way to send audio signal directly into a video monitor. There are definitely ways to do it, but I didn’t have any of the necessary tools available. —And I was restless— Though, I realized that I could…

I just found the audio files from a couple of radio spots from my March 9, 2012, show at Helen Hills Hills Chapel. The first is a 10 minute segment with WRSI‘s Monte which goes through a number of the instruments and noises that were on that show. The second…

I don’t often enter contests, but every once in a while I will throw my hat into the ring. Well, this time it paid off: First Prize in the Grumo Festival Call for Scores for my new piano work, Fox’s Wedding. Grumo Festival Website Looking forward to the July 6…

I’m thrilled to be kicking off a new design on my site. The old design (… still somewhat accessible while we work out the kinks with the new one…) was something I developed over a number of years and which was completely overwhelmed by my content. The new layout (designed…