Literature:

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FICTION:

Songs from Behind the Curtain - a story about an opera composer who is secretly a spy for th Soviets. This is the third draft from mid 2010.

Twrch Trwyth - In the spirit of Grendal, a tale about the boar from the poem "Culhwch and Olwen" from his point of view.

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NON FICTION:

Falling from the Sun - a piece about the first time I went skydiving, and the allusions that the act represented to me.

Heredity - In 2003, my father and I went to Miami, FL.  During it we visited the Ernest Hemingway house and I met a polydactyl cat...

Compositional Strategies in "Words for the Dead" - The written portion of my Honors Thesis, it was awarded the mark of "Pass with Distinction" from the WSU Honors College in 2004. It examines my chamber opera, Words for the Dead, and how I used motive and reoccurence to create a deeper level of coherence.

The Use of Silence in "The Mask of Time" - A paper that examines Michael Tippett's mammoth work, The Mask of Time, and how he incorporates silence in a variety of metaphoric and structural ways.

Spring, 2013: The UMKC Opera Dept. will perform portions of Songs from Behind the Curtain.

Fall, 2012: Joseph Abad will perform Icarus in Hartford, CT.

Fall, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories with the HICO Orchestra in CT.

fall, 2012: Bobby Watson and the UMKC Big Band will premiere Rhapsody for Dean Moriarty in Kansas City, MO.

fall, 2012: Ashly Evans will premiere Birdsongs in Houston, TX.

Spring-Summer, 2012: Jeux pour Jumeaux will be performed in San Francisco, CA.

June 7th, 2012: BA(da)SS will be performed by Ryan Ford in West Hartford, CT.

June 7th, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT.

June 7th, 2012: Chris Belluscio will perform Boombox Serenade in West Hartford, CT.

June 7th, 2012: Not Death, but Love will be premiered by Ineo Saxophone Quartet.

June, 2012: The Invisible, Magic, Soccer Phone will be premiered in Middlefield, CT.

June 7th, 2012: Joseph Abad will premiere Icarus in Hartford, CT.

May 27th, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT.

May 6th, 2012: "Indeed this very Love" from Sonnets from the Portuguese will be broadcast on kineticsradio.com.

Dec. 3rd, 2011: Ryan defends his dessertation, Songs from Behind the Curtain at UMKC.

July 17th, 21st, 24th, 2011: Music Faculty from the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will perform ...and those seven dwarfs in a series of concerts in Western Maine.

June 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, 2011:Orphée Redux will be performed by Rhymes With Opera on their East Coast Tour (NYC, Baltimore, Hartford, Boston).

June 12th, 2011:Selection from Songs from Behind the Curtain will be performed at the John Duffy Composers Institute in Norfolk, VA.

May 13th, 2011: The Ineo Quartet will perform the 1st movement of Not Death, but Love on their Fischoff Competition program in South Bend, Indiana.

March 19th, 2011: The Ineo Saxophone Quartet will perform ...and love is fire... from Not Death, but Love at the NASA conference in West Point, NY.

Feb. 25th, 2011: I. Jest will be premiered by Robert Olson and the UMKC Orchestra in Kansas City, MO.

Feb. 14th, 2011: Hebdomas Squatinae will be performed at the Nebraska at Kearney New Music Festival.

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