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This was so special. 🥰

Thank you, Hilary! I, too, have a day job, and it has dramatically improved my mental and physical health. There is no shame in an extramusical job to keep you stable. @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social

Y'all I'm so excited!!!

Do I want to pay $400+/ticket to see Maybe Happy Ending before a white actor takes over for Darren Criss? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

Look at this girl. She is True Blue all the way. 💙 . . . (Obviously she's happy about it.)

Today starts my tenure as Acting Chair of the Music, Multimedia, Theatre, and Dance Department at Lehman College.

Woohoo! Check this out! The premiere is HAPPENING! patch.com/virginia/fai...

1st day on the job with @robinson.bands! We rehearsed "Son of a Gun" and "Last Stage to Red Rock." @tiffanyhudsonhitz even let me conduct a little! 🎶 Can't wait to hear tomorrow's rehearsal of "Dune Aurora," my new piece written as part of the 2025 ComMission Possible Project! 🎺

I'm on my way to be the Composer-In-Residence for the 2025 ComMission Possible 2025 Project @robo_ram_gram. I'm enjoying a performance of the Lehman College and Community Band playing @omarthomasmusic "Come Sunday." #LehmanProud @lehmancuny @lehman.college.music @lehman_arts.n.humanities

✨LA Peeps, please apply!✨

Last day of classes concert! 🎶 #LehmanProud

First time at the @washnatopera, first time seeing the opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. #meetopera #composer

Captain Sweetface™️ is sleepy. 🐾 #caturday

So proud to have the Colectivo Altepee and Carlos Cuestas on campus yesterday! What a perfect day to enjoy their musical offerings. 🇲🇽🎶 #lehmanproud #professor

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’   — theonion.com/pete-hegseth...

This is a bit of a #chicago #latergram: thanks to my friend @fille_de_bouclier, I got tickets to attend @carloscarrillo663 's new opera Remedios Varios produced by @chicagooperatheater 🎭 I'm so happy my dear friend Nahla could go with me. 🌸

Y'ALL. I want to start a Concert Club (like a book club) where we go to a concert once a month and go to a cafe afterwards to discuss things. Thoughts?

This is my @cuwindensemble #scrapbook, brought to you by @coregami and @bucksbags 🎶 (To the @cuwindensemble THANK YOU for the invitation to make music together. 🥹)

Congrats to @lehmancuny music student Jean Santos on his mini recital! 🎹

What a privilege to work with the Columbia University Wind Ensemble ON MY OWN PIECE! 💡⛗ Thank you to Oscar Wiley Thorp for rehearsing them earlier. Come see/hear me, Oscar, and my Lehman College colleague Jason Noble conducting the CU Wind Ensemble at our Festival of Winds. 🪈🎺🎷

Wednesday is the day! I'm excited to welcome Jeff Gershman and the College of Wooster's @scotbands onto @lehmancuny 's campus! I will be workshopping MARCH! during their performance tour. 🥁 Also—this is the first time my music will be performed on campus. 🎶 #lehmanproud

Composers! Come learn with me and my friends Evan Williams, Mark Olivieri, and Marc Mellits at the Composers' Sandbox Summer Intensive at the Hobart and William Smith Colleges this summer! (June 1–15, 2025). 🌲🎵 Here's the link for more details: composerssandbox.org

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Another #latergram of a fantastic concert by @voascension. 🎵

A delayed #100daysofpractice Season 2, Day 24 🎵 I decided to wave my arms at the last minute for a conducting seminar.

Y'ALL the Youth Orchestra of San Antonio SOUND SO GOOD 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRsA...

I want to thank everyone who participated in the 2025 Missouri All-Collegiate Band at MMEA. For those who weren't there, the band got TWO STANDING OVATIONS, which they deeply deserved. To the students in the ensemble, I was honored to create music with you.

I'm sad I won't be able to attend this event! Thanks to @tessabrinkman, the "Weaving Clouds: Women in Creative Renewal" concert will be performed at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City on Saturday, March 1, at 3:00 PM. They are performing "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

This May, I’ll be composing for the ComMission Possible Project in collaboration with the Beyond the Notes Music Festival. Additionally, I’m joining the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Composer’s Sandbox Summer Intensive in New York. Find out more about my upcoming engagements: buff.ly/436HpK0.

This right here dems. 👀

I am so excited to share that my recent contribution on Fotina Naumenko’s “Newman: Bespoke Songs” was nominated for the 2024 Grammy® Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! Read more: https://buff.ly/42YVk4G.

YOU GUYS, I HAVE TO GO TO A STUPID MEETING IN 30 MINUTES, BUT SPRING TRAINING GAMES ARE NOW ON 😭 ⚾️ #dodgers

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Day 22 ✍🏻 IT IS FINISHEDDDDDD 🔥🫠 I'm excited that Tiffany Hitz and the James W. Robinson Secondary School Middle School Bands will be premiering the piece! I'm also hoping I didn't write anything too hard for them. 😅

LOL what I do for my students. (We're learning sentence structure, btw.)

#100daysofpractice Season 2 Day 16 ✍🏻 More cramping.

I am really sad I can't attend this concert in person.

#100daysofpractice Season 2 Day 15🎶 First rehearsal is tonight so I'm gonna keep studying on the plane🛫 #prayforme

#100daysofpractice Season 2 Day 14 🎶 Did you know the chord progression to @vietcuongmusic 's Deciduous is a condensed version of the Descending 3rd Sequence? #themoreyouknow🌈

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Day 13 🎶 Why yes I'm doing some score study while covering my silver highlights 💅🏻

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Days 10 & 11 ✍🏻 FINAL BAR LINE MFs!!! 🫳🏻🎤 Introducing the 1st movement (of a collective 3-movement concerto) for solo timpani for J.J. Pearce and the @mafb_kc🔥🔥🔥 PAITING! 파이팅! is a Konglish word for LET'S GO! So PAITING MFs!!!! 🥊🤘🏻

Listening to your work via Livestream never gets old. Hearing the @dallaswinds perform EYES OF THE WORLD is absolutely something I will never forget. 🔥 Thank y'all so much. 🥹

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Day 9 🎶 I guess these measure numbers don't write themselves.

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Days 7 & 8 ✍🏻 Gotta love the copy-and-paste function when the dynamics don't cooperate.

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Day 6 ✍🏻 This post is late because I'm not actually composing at the airport (but maybe I should because this piece is two days late but who is counting 😬)

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

Your girl got summoned for Grand Jury Service in the Bronx. Did you know jurors are only paid $40/day, and travel and parking costs are not reimbursed? 😑 I HAVE THOUGHTS.

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Day 5 ✍🏻 Fierce AF 🤘🏻

Happy Korean 🇰🇷 American 🇺🇸 Day!

#100daysofpractice Season 2, Day 3 ✍🏻 Sometimes I listen to a piece many times so I can turn back into a composer. 🤞🏻