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Collide Festival and CF2 composers come together, January 28 at UCF

Charles — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:43:15 +0000

On January 28, 2012 at 8:00 p.m, the Central Florida Composers Forum (CF2), together with Furman University Percussion Ensemble (Omar Carmenates, Director), UCF Percussion Ensemble (Thad Anderson, Director) and KnightWinds Ensemble (Dr. Nora Lee Garcia-Valazquez, Director) will come together to perform an array of works by Central Florida [...]

Riga Saxophone Quartet tours with Panta Rei in November

Charles — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:34:40 +0000

The Riga Saxophone Quartet, comprised of Artis Sīmanis, Ainārs Šablovskis, Arvīds Kazlausks, and Gints Pabērzs, is including my Panta Rei in performances in Italy, the Netherlands and Latvia in November, along with works by J.S. Bach, Rihards Dubra, Nick Gotham, György Ligeti, Russell Peck, Antonio Vivaldi and [...]

Presentation at ATMI Conference in Richmond, VA on October 20

Charles — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:33:14 +0000

Open publication - Free publishing - More atmi

I gave an hour-long presentation at the 2011 National Conference of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI) yesterday in Richmond, Virginia. The title of my presentation was Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Interaction and Teaching Music Online. I [...]

4 Screenings of Hold the Mayo in October & November: Santa Fe, Knoxville, New Orleans and Sherman Oaks

Charles — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:10:21 +0000

The short film Hold the Mayo is enjoying a flurry of screenings at U.S. & International film festivals, and now is enjoying screenings at 4 festivals in a 3 week period.

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
October 22: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Warehouse 21
1614 Paseo [...]

Flute quartet Forty Fingers gives Swedish premiere of Emergence in Mariestad, October 15

Charles — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:20:27 +0000

My multimedia piece, Emergence, for Flute Quartet, Electronics and Video Projection will receive its Swedish premiere on October 15 at 6PM, at Mariestads stadsbibliotek,
Drottninggatan 12, in Mariestad, Western Sweden. The concert will be preceded by a workshop using two of the movements from the piece to teach [...]

Persistence of Past Chemistries performed by UCF Percussion Ensemble October 15

Charles — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:35:03 +0000

The University of Central Florida Percussion Ensemble, directed by Thad Anderson, will perform my quartet, The Persistence of Past Chemistries on their Fall Concert, on October 15 at 8PM.

On October 10 I will visit UCF and give a talk to the composition students there.

Hold the Mayo is enjoying a flurry of screenings at U.S. & International film festivals, and now its enjoying its Chicago premiere. The Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Fest 2011 will screen our short at the Columbia College Film Row Cinema: 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL.

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Hold the Mayo at Sydney Underground Film Festival September 10

Charles — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:47:28 +0000

The short film Hold the Mayo is enjoying a flurry of screenings at U.S. film festivals, but now its enjoying an Australian premiere. The Sydney Underground Film Festival 2011 will screen our short at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville.

WRITER/DIR/PROD: Jeffrey Williams
CAST: Saul Herckis, Damian Samuels
ORIGINAL [...]

Hold the Mayo at Atlanta Shortfest, September 8 & 10

Charles — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:30:15 +0000

The short film Hold the Mayo is enjoying a flurry of screenings at U.S. film festivals. Atlanta Shortfest 2011 will screen our short at the Goat Farm Art Center as part of Independent Film Month. The entire month of September 2011 has officially been declared Independent Film Month in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Hold the Mayo at the Anthology Film Archives, July 1

Charles — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:21:44 +0000

The short film Hold the Mayo is enjoying a flurry of screenings at U.S. film festivals. Newfilmmakers New York Summerfest 2011 will give the east coast premiere screening at the Anthology Film Archives.

Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Friday, July [...]