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I have been appointed Music Director of the Musical Arts Youth Organization in Bloomington, IN. I look forward to bringing exciting new music to young musicians in southern Indiana! Our upcoming season is titled The MUSIC NOW Project, and we'll explore recent works for string orchestra as well as chamber music for winds.

I am happy to report that my children's opera, Mooch the Magnificent, has won the OPERA PUPPETS Mainstage Award in the 2013 Contempo Festival of the Boston Metro Opera. It will receive a staged performance next season in Boston. This season, Mooch received 35 performances in Bloomington, IN and Trenton, MO, by Roundabout Opera for Kids.

Just out from FJH are three new pieces for string orchestra, Wired, Postcard from Mars, and Rubber Chicken Soup. Kalimba Lullaby, also for strings, was recently published by Grand Mesa Music. Wired and Postcard from Mars were awarded Editor's Choice at J.W. Pepper.

Recently released from Fatrock Ink is my piece for Soprano or Baritone and Harp, Among All Creatures. I am delighted to be signing on with The Theodore Presser Company, who will publish four of my orchestral works: Five Songs on Poems of Robert Herrick, Abendstern, Concerto for Trumpet, and Three Portraits of a Witch, as well as my Sonatine for flute and piano, Saltarello for trumpet and piano, and Anacostia Journal for string quartet. They will also publish my children's opera, Mooch the Magnificent.