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Teddy was named a recipient of the 2019 ASCAP Plus Award in composition. This is his 4th ASCAP Plus Award in 5 years.

The Midwest Chamber Ensemble performed Teddy’s Konzertstück for solo violin and wind quintet in its season finale on on May 11 and 12, 2019, in Prairie Village, Kansas. The violin soloist was Nathan Humphrey and the conductor was Ramiro Miranda.

Teddy began part-time MBA studies this fall at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was also named a 2018 Neubauer Civic Scholar by Booth: the Civic Scholars Program is a subset of the weekend MBA division, devoted to professionals in the non-profit and public sectors.

Teddy returned as staff pianist for the Robert Walters English Horn Masterclass at Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel Valley, CA, from June 22-28, 2018. The weeklong program included a joint recital with Robert Walters and Judith LeClair, principal bassoon of the New York Philharmonic, on Monday, June 25. A review of the performance can be found here.

On Thursday, March 29, 2018, Teddy presented “Thomas Mesa and Friends in Concert,” a chamber recital at Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall in Chicago, featuring cellist Thomas Mesa (2016 Sphinx Competition Winner), violinist Susan Paik, and violist Jonas Benson. Repertoire includes Teddy’s 2008 piano quartet Spe salvi, and Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, op. 25.

Oboist ToniMarie Marchioni and pianist Jake Coleman presented my Oboe Sonata (2014) in recital on Feb. 12, 2018 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. 

Teddy returned home to Minneapolis, Minnesota to present “Mountain after Mountain,” a solo piano recital of original works on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, in Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall at the University of Minnesota. He also presented this solo recital twice in Chicago, at PianoForte Chicago on Feb. 11, and at Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall on Feb. 12.

Teddy appeared in recital on the Heights Arts “Close Encounters” chamber series with Robert Walters (English horn) and Drew Pattison (bassoon), both professors at Oberlin, on Sunday, January 21, 2018, in Cleveland, OH. The program featured my Trio (2016), as well as Dutilleux, Debussy, Hendrik Andriessen, and more! The concert is titled “Rhymes, Rhythms, and the Kitchen Sink.”

Co-authored with Kyle Adams, “The Day the Ear Stood Still: Aural Skills with a Theremin” was published in Indiana Theory Review (vol. 33). This pedagogical case study details the use of a Theremin as a vocal substitute for an aural skills student suffering from severe asthma. Click here to read on JStor, or check out my Publications page!

On August 26, Miriam Friedman (oboe) and Julia Sheriff (piano) performed Teddy’s Oboe Sonata (2014) in Chevy Chase, Maryland on the inaugural concert of StageFree Music. Check out their website here. The program consisted entirely of chamber music composed during the past 10 years!

On May 8, 2017, pianist YunKyung Rachel Choo delivered a “superb performance” of Teddy’s “Three Korean Minyo” (2014) at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, at the annual Rutgers University Piano Gala.

On April 4, 2017, oboe faculty Aaron Hill and pianist Christopher Taylor performed Teddy’s Oboe Sonata (2014) in recital at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

On March 3, 2017, maestro Alastair Willis and the CCPA Contemporary Ensemble of Roosevelt University premiered Teddy’s “Grand Teton” (2017), a 14-minute work for small orchestra. The premiere can be heard here.

Cellist Madeline Fayette and the New York Classical Players, conducted by founder Dongmin Kim, premiered Teddy’s “Concertino on Themes of Haydn” on Feb. 17-19, 2017, in New York and New Jersey. A video of the premiere can be seen here.