His work An Invocation was recently premiered by the Austin Symphony Orchestra and featured on the TreeFalls new music series in Spartanburg, SC. His one-act opera Thyrsis & Amaranth was premiered by Hartford Opera Theater in 2011 and has since been produced in Halifax, Cincinnati, Austin, St. Louis, and recently at Syracuse University. Critics praised Thyrsis as “Truly beautiful… a magnificent little story jammed full of thought and feeling and meaning” with “gorgeous music and wrenching lyrics.”