it's been a while...

So since I last posted, I changed my major to composition and completed a very great and dramatic sophomore.

I finished a second Emily Dickinson setting (which in the future will be a set of songs for women's choir), which I actually submitted to a small choral composition competition in my school and won! (Tied for first, but whatever...) That means it'll be performed this fall at one of the choral concerts which is pretty awesome to say the least.

In addition, I wrote half of what will be two spanish poems for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, cello, vibes and piano) and premiered it at a class recital in April to much acclaim (the real reason why I decided to change my major). The other half is sort of coming along...

I also sang in my first opera, as Mr. Splinters, the mailman in a full staged production of The Tenderland. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad I got the opportunity to do so. This next year I'll be in an opera scene -- the quintet from Carmen -- and I'm pretty nervous as I'm supposed to know the music by the beginning of the semester cold and I don't know french diction. Oh well!

Lots of other things, musical and otherwise occurred, but I'm not in the right mindset or mood to explain them. Perhaps I'll upload some of my composition-related things soon, just for shits and giggles. And maybe if anyone actually reads this you can give me some audience feedback!