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, anticipated Fall 2025
essays for composers
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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