This week will be non-stop work preparing for the staging rehearsals of the Sound of Grief.

The performances are definitely going to sell out. Buy your tickets now if you’d like to come!
This week will be non-stop work preparing for the staging rehearsals of the Sound of Grief.

The performances are definitely going to sell out. Buy your tickets now if you’d like to come!
My talk at UC Berkeley Music yesterday was a fantastic success. So many wonderful composer’s to speak with! A huge thank-you to Ken Ueno for inviting me to come!

I’ve been so lucky to work with the Peninsula Women’s Chorus for the past year as their Composer-in-Residence. I can’t believe how far we’ve come and that the Sound of Grief will premiere in April! This is my first opera and something I have dreamed of for twenty years!
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Starting again.
I’ve been very poor about news updates for the several years but it hasn’t been because I’ve been sleeping. Project after project has kept me busy. Rather than compile them all I am starting again from here.