Articles, Interviews & Podcasts

INTERVIEWS / Panel Discussion

Presenter, Composer Insights – Composing for Orchestra, Cascadia Composers, November 14, 2023

SPOTLIGHT conversation with Musicologist Karen Ruymann discussing The Forest and the Architect and Canyon Voices, Multicultural Center, Cambridge, MA, November 11, 2023

Presenter: Passion, Perspective, Creating Opportunity – Cascadia Composers,  March 2023

Presenter, Composing Place: Landscape, Community, and Advocacy, International Alliance for Women Conference, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. June 3, 2022

EQUITY NOW; Panel Discussion; Diversity + Inclusion in Classical / New Music, March 8, 2022, EXTENSITY hosted a virtual discussion on gender equity and diversity in classical and new music. Panelists: Ana Abrantes, cellist and Director of Education at The Sphinx Organization, Haley Olson, composer and Manager of Artist Services at American Composers Forum,  Eunbi Kim, pianist and Board Member at the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Christina Rusnak, composer and President of theInternational Alliance for Women in Music.

Speaker/Panelist: ASMAC, Women Composers, March 24, 2021

Guest Lecturer, Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon. November, 2020

Panelist: New Music Gathering: Landscape Music, June 2020

Guest Composer, Leading Tones Music, May, 2020

Guest Composer, Wells School of Music, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, November 2019

PODCAST

Melodology Podcast, Episode 1, February 2022

ARTICLES

Landscape Music, Rivers and Trails Series, November 2018, IAWM Journal, Volume 24, No. 2

Composing the Oregon Trail, September 2018, http://landscapemusic.org/essays/composing-the-oregon-national-historic-trail/

Widening Inclusion & Visibility, July 2018, https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/widening-inclusion-visibility/

Widening Inclusion & Visibility Of Women In Music, May 2018, http://jazzednet.org/resources/widening_inclusion/

Composing in the Wilderness, August 2017,  http://www.orartswatch.org/composing-in-the-wilderness-1-tundra-tapestry/

Commissioning Landscape Music, July 24, 2017, Landscapemusic.org http://landscapemusic.org/essays/commissioning-landscape-music/

A Composer in Cuba, May, 19, 2017, Oregon Arts Watch http://www.orartswatch.org/a-cascadia-composer-in-cuba/

A Report from Cuba, November 2016, IAWM Journal, Volume 22, No. 2

Landscape Music, September 2, 2016, Oregon Arts Watch http://www.orartswatch.org/landscape-music/ 

Music, Travel and the New Music Gathering,  May 2016, Published in the IAWM Journal Volume 22 No. 1

New Music and Place: Creating Community, April 25, 2016, New Music Box http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/new-music-and-place-creating-community/ 

Composing Advocacy: Social Voices, April 19, 2016, New Music Box http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/composing-advocacy-social-voices/

Money, Support and the Voice of New Music, April 13, 2016, New Music Box http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/money-support-and-the-voice-of-new-music/

New Music as Advocacy for Place, April 4, 2016, New Music Box http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/new-music-as-advocacy-for-place/

Composing Landscape Music, published July 2015 http://landscapemusic.org/essays/composing-landscape-music/

Landscape Music as Advocacy, published June 2015 http://landscapemusic.org/essays/landscape-music-as-advocacy/

Reconstructing Presence:  Human Geography of Brent Phelps’ “On the Trail of Lewis and Clark”, Published by Wandering Scholars, January 2009