I will give a pre-concert lecture about Man of Oregon in the Soreng Theatre at the Hult Center at 6:30 on July 1st.

I gave a brief presentation about Man of Oregon at the Oregon Bach Festival kickoff event on April 26th at the Wildish Theatre in Springfield, Oregon, and a similar presentation on February 27th at a Readin' In the Rain event supporting Kenny Moore's book, Bowerman and the Men of Oregon. Kenny also wrote the program notes for the July 1st concert!

In January I was commissioned by soprano Gretchen Farrar to write Double Beauty, a lullaby for soprano and piano, for inclusion on her forthcoming CD.

On March 31st, the Canadian women's choir She Sings!, conducted by Martha Hill Duncan, premiered a fun a cappella SSAA piece called Walk With Me, for which I wrote the words and music. And on May 11th, they also performed my moving SSA/piano work Let Him Return in New York City, in concert with the New York Treble Singers. She Sings! (formerly known as Aurora) had premiered that piece in 2005 in their home town of Kingston, Ontario.

My new choral work in English and Estonian for three choirs, four winds, and percussion, entitled Journeys to Freedom: Rännakud Vabadusse, premiered in Maryland on April 22nd, with two performances that day, and another performance on May 13th, conducted by Dr. Margaret Boudreaux. This nine-minute choral work incorporates folksongs from the U.S. and Estonia celebrating human freedom and dignity.

On May 12th, 13th, and 14th, the Central Oregon Symphony (COS) in Bend, Oregon, under the baton of Maestro Michael Gesme, presented a 7-minute excerpt from Bowerman, Man of Oregon, a 23-minute symphonic biography for chamber orchestra honoring the life of Bill Bowerman (1911-1999), famed track and field coach from the University of Oregon and the U.S. Olympics; co-founder of NIKE; inventor of the waffle-soled running shoe and all-weather track; author of the best-selling book Jogging, which sparked the entire jogging movement in the United States in the 1970s.

Flutists from the COS premiered my 4-minute flute quartet entitled Barbara on two chamber music concerts on October 6th, part of the COS's Music In Public Places series at the High Desert Gallery in Redmond, Oregon.

And finally, on October 27th, 28th, and 29th, the COS, again under the baton of Maestro Michael Gesme, presented the full-length premiere of Bowerman, Man of Oregon.

On October 8, 2005, the Arrieu Wind Quintet performed my five-movement work with narration, Aesop's Fables, in Roseburg, Oregon, with Andrew Brock as narrator.

On October 30, 2005, my 11-minute SATB choral work Reciprocity premiered at the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City, as a part of the First Festival of Universal Sacred Music, sponsored by the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music. Susanne Peck conducted the festival choir, Sangita. This multi-lingual, multi-faith choral work honors the positive and negative formulations of the ethic of reciprocity ("do unto others..." and "do not do to others..."), sometimes known as the "golden rule," by quoting eleven of our planet's history-shaping religious teachers and philosophers, going as far back as 3100 B.C., in their original languages as much as possible. The texts, in order, are in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tibetan, Chinese, ancient Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, and again in Arabic.

In November 2005 I released my first full-length audio CD, October Wind, thirteen original works for solo piano plus one art song for tenor voice and piano. The style is beautiful, melodic, flowing. Indie Acoustic selected track 10, Periwinkle Blue, on my CD as one of their "Songs of Note 2005," calling it "one of the best songs of 2005."