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I am thrilled to announce that my opera about civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, will be receiving a fully-staged professional production in Boston next month. Is This America? will be produced by White Snake Projects at the beautiful Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Boston, MA  02125 on Friday, September 20 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, September 21 at …

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I am delighted to announce that I was co-commissioned last summer to write an orchestral work as part of a new partnership between two of the most prestigious arts schools in the country - Juilliard in New York and Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.  I am very proud that I was one of …

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I am thrilled to announce that my orchestral work, Soul of Remembrance, will be performed in the newly-renovated David Geffen Hall at New York's Lincoln Center on March 3, 2023. The sold-out performance is part of an exciting partnership between Interlochen Center for the Arts and the New York Philharmonic, one of the best orchestras in the world.

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