Bring new music to life.
Commissions
Merchant Ivory – Commissioned by film director Stephen Soucy and Modernist Film to compose an original score for the feature documentary film (2022).
Briefly Gorgeous – Commissioned by dancer and professor, Jason Ohlberg, with support from Skidmore College’s Department of Dance and Department of Music (2021)
Recurrent Stages – Commissioned by the Minnesota Ballet underwritten by the American Composers Forum and New Music USA with funds provided by the McKnight Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013)
Veni Creator Spiritus – Commissioned by the Renaissance vocal ensemble earlybird (2013)
The Abandoned Valley – Commissioned by violinist Adrianna Mateo (2012)
Grace – Commissioned by the New Haven Oratorio Choir (2012)
Twilight – Commissioned by the Children’s Aid Society Chorus (2011)
The Sea of Sunset – Commissioned by the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus (2009)
Honors and Awards
Selected by the Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra to be a featured composer in their HOMAGES concert to premiere “Music and Life Mingle” (2023).
Selected as a Composing Jury to review applications for upcoming residencies at Millay Arts (2022).
Selected to attend a Wintertide Rustic Retreat composers residency at Millay Arts (January 2022 & December 2022).
Selected composer to participate in the 2021 Source Song Festival and compose a new work setting the text of Minnesota’s poet laureate Joyce Sutphen. Source Faculty and Guest Artists include composers Libby Larsen, David Evan Thomas, Will Liverman, and Susanne Mentzer.
Finalist - National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) 2020 Art Song Competition Award for Five Russian Poems
Finalist - Verdant Vibes 2018 Call for Scores for Partner Sequence
PBS North documentary of the making of Recurrent Stages was nominated for Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Award® (2014)
Awardees Ryan Homsey (music), Adrienne Elisha (music), and Nelson Wei Tan (film/video) receiving the Patricia Kerr Ross Award for the Arts from the State University of New York
Recipient of the American Composers Forum and New Music USA Live Music for Dance Grant (2013)
Featured composer at Catholic University of America New Music Festival (2013) with performance of Twilight
Finalist – RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition (2011) for Rounding the Apse
2nd Place – Children’s Aid Society Chorus “Future Songs of the City” Competition (2011)
Winner – ActorCor 2nd Annual Interfaith Choral Composition Competition (2010) for Ring Out Wild Bells
Semi-finalist – Choral Arts Ensemble International Composition Competition (2009) for Twilight
Finalist – Young New Yorkers’ Chorus 5th Annual Composition Competition (2009) with commission and performance of The Sea of Sunset
Melodious Accord Composer Fellow Scholarship to study with Alice Parker (2008)
Patricia Kerr Ross Award for the Arts from the State University of New York (2007)