Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt
Independently published, June 2019
Composing a Living: A Music Creator’s Guide to Money, Relationships, and Business
Cowritten with Brandon Elliott
Oxford University Press, September 2025
essays for composers
What If You Don't Have a Music Community?
Co-Authored with Brandon Elliott | I Care if You Listen
The Composer's Guide to Choral Conferences
Fifteen Ways to Be Productive When You're Not Composing
Five Ways to Improve Your Bio
How Do You Commission a Composer?
10 Questions for Composers and Commissioning Ensembles
How to Get Your First Commission
How to Win More Choral Composition Contests
No More Zombie Poets, Part 1 & Part 2:
A Composer's Guide to Setting Text to Music
& Approaching Authors About Collaboration
The Perks of Having a Newsletter
On Growing a Career Slowly and Deliberately
Take a Great Headshot: 8 Tips from Composers
essays for conductors
Encouraging Composers Within Your Ensemble
Questions for Composers and Commissioning Ensembles
How Do You Commission a Composer?
10 Questions for Composers and Commissioning Ensembles
essays for everyone
An Average Day: My Composing Routine
Choosing to Walk: Embracing Slow and Steady Progress
Don't Wait Until You Hear Sirens
The End of the World? We'll Compose It.
The First Time: Hearing a Premiere
Goal-Setting and Flexible Dreams
Let's Break the Money Talk Taboo
How Composers Learn from Great Collaborations
More Will Come: A Well of Creativity
The Perks of Having a Newsletter
Take a Great Headshot: 8 Tips from Composers
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