I am pleased to announce that my piece, “Winter”, has placed Gold in the fancily-named, and therefore prestigious, Euro-Elite International Music Competition.

For context, there are six levels:  Honorable mention, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and something I like to call Super-Mega-Elite-Amazing-Platinum, which are the people who actually win.

So, I didn’t win.

But I didn’t place badly, either.  In the “professional” category, which they put me in (I thought it’d be adult/amateur), I scored fourth out of twelve, and somewhere near the top in the whole rankings.

I told myself when I found out that I was a finalist that I would be happy with Gold, and, well… I got gold.  So, all told, I didn’t do too badly.  And, I guess it’s probably safe to say I’m the only composer from Temple, Texas (and maybe even Texas itself) to show in that competition, so…  it’s all good, I guess.

I am currently working on “Spring”, the second piece in the four piece “seasons” cycle I somehow found myself writing.  So, please look forward to it.

All that said…  I’m not entirely sure about my future as a composer, for unrelated reasons.  But I will discuss that in another post.