I am excited to announce that I have been named the 2013 Composer-Not-in-Residence for San Francisco Choral Artists. For the last several weeks I’ve been walking around Philadelphia listening to SFCA recordings on my i-pod, feeling totally inspired and very fortunate to write three new pieces for this group. In fact, I am just finishing up the one for the December concerts: a setting of Thomas Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush, incorporating melodies derived from actual field recordings. For the March concerts I will be composing a work to sing unsung biologist Rosalind Franklin, and for the June concerts I will write on the theme of superstition for the “Omens, Dreams, and Curses” concert.
