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World Premiere of “Turn your face to the sun,”

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you” is a Maori proverb and a reminder that we each have the power to choose a positive approach toward life.

The Toiyabe Trio will offer a repeat performance of this uplifting new work.

  • When: Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
  • Where: Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 357 Clay Street, Reno, Nevada

The Trio will also be performing Monica’s Trio ‘Toiyabe (2023) during the program.

For further information please visit www.toiyabemusic.org

October 25 2025 - Turn Your Face to the Sun

Quartet Integra Performs Epigram

Quartet Integra presented an exquisite performance of my “Epigram” on the opening concert of this year’s Nevada Chamber Music Festival on December 28, 2024,  in the Hall Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.

In an email to the composer Artistic Director Clive Greensmith wrote: “the piece is so persuasive and imaginative!”

Also on the program was Beethoven’s last quartet, Opus 135, which served as the primary inspiration for “Epigram,” with Schubert’s transcendent String Quintet D.956 following after the intermission.

It was a truly unique and enjoyable evening altogether.

 

 

“Oh, Will” for Pierrot In Dayton

Soprano Andrea Chenoweth Wells performed the aria “Oh Will, come see” from The Big Bonanza, in a new arrangement for Pierrot ensemble, on her Faculty Recital of Contemporary Chamber Music, which took place on October 9, 2024, at the Roger Glass Center for the Arts at the University of Dayton, Ohio, under the direction of Neal Gittleman.

Song Cycle ‘de la Noche’ premiere at Bowling Green State University

Mezzo-soprano Katherine Pracht Phares and pianist Kevin Bylsma delivered an impressive premiere performance of this cycle of seven songs on poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (in Spanish) on the evening of January 17,2024, in Bryan Recital Hall, at Bowling Green State University in Toledo, Ohio.

      World Premiere of de la Noche

Trio ‘Toiyabe’ Tour

Oboist Aaron Hill, violist Dustin Budish and harpist Emily Montoya Barnes, premiered a new ten-minute Houghton work commissioned by Toiyabe Chamber Music Society for their three-city inaugural tour as part of a full program featuring this unusual trio combination at St. Thomas Aquinas in Reno, Nevada, with additional performances at the Fallon Theater in Fallon, and at Eureka Opera House in Eureka, Nevada in May.

Here is a link to watch the Eureka performance of Houghton’s Trio ‘Toiyabe’

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18sFATSH3FYOq5I3da0QfmzHwELiRL0WI/view?usp=gmail