T.U.X.!

Exciting news!!!

Yesterday, I received an email informing me that three of my works (Solo de Concours, Five Miniatures, and Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and Piano) have been selected for publication by T.U.X. People’s Music! These pieces will be included in their 2020-21 catalogue, and I couldn’t be more excited or honored. T.U.X. is a new (established in 2016) and relatively small publisher, and from what I can gather they truly care about their composers and treat them and their music with respect. I am eagerly anticipating having professional copies of my scores, but what I look forward to the most is discovering the music of the other composers T.U.X. publishes.

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Being published is a huge deal to me. I have received countless rejection emails from competitions in the past, and each is more discouraging than the last. Getting this email felt the same as when I found out I was accepted to the Fred Fox School of Music composition program; as if I could finally stop calling myself a composer* and remove the asterisk. I don’t think there’s ever a point where you’ve “made it.” If there were, there would be no reason to keep composing. There are just these moments of reassurance that your music is worth something, that there’s at least one person who thinks it’s good enough to publish. Who knows whether I’ll sell many copies, but just being included in their catalogue is so exciting to me!

As for the clarinet side of things, I’ve just finished a recording of a short piece I commissioned from my good friend Sarah Anne Evans, called The Stages of Being Trapped Indoors. The recording is available here! I have also been working diligently on Gryphon by Theresa Martin, and just for fun I am starting to learn Scott McAllister’s Black Dog. Here’s a brief (and flawed) recording of a section I’ve been working on this past week:

I am, of course, watching a lot of movies and TV. I have one more episode of Twin Peaks: The Return and I have been putting off watching it because I just don’t want to be done! It is a phenomenal series and I have been enjoying it immensely. This past week I also crossed a couple movies off my Criterion watchlist; Rashomon and Multiple Maniacs. I enjoyed both, but I can’t say I truly fell in love with either of them. That’s always bound to happen, though. Not everything ends up resonating with you!

That’s about all I have to update you on, things have been slow lately. Still, I am very, very excited to be working with T.U.X. and I look forward to writing more this summer! Until next time.

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