Still no alligators: Saturday through Tuesday in Florida

Our concert on Saturday at Satellite United Methodist Church was a lot of fun! This was Jen's "hometown" concert, and it was well attended by family and friends. Mrs. Bewerse hosted a lovely reception after the concert and we had a great time socializing with the audience.

On Sunday we had a very busy practice day then drove up to Gainesville, where we got to see Rebecca Pethes! Rebecca is a wonderful soprano that Jen and I met and worked with when we were at soundSCAPE. She and her husband Mike hosted us at there home and it was so nice to catch up with her!

On Monday we met with composer Adam Scott Neal who was our host at the University of Florida. He is the president of the Society if Composers UF student chapter, a very talented composer, and was the one who organized the masterclass and concert for us. Thank you so much Adam!

The masterclass was a lot of fun. We did readings then worked on three pieces by Michael Smith, Alexander Boostrom, and Adam Scott Neal. What a great group of composers!! We hope we get the opportunity to work with them in the future.

Then we had our concert which included the world premiere of Sarah Hersh's piece in praise of continuous dreams of New York. It is always a great experience to give the world premiere of a piece and this was no exception. We look forward to many more performances of this piece in the future.

After relaxing with our new buds at UF it was time for bed because today we headed to University of South Florida in Tampa where we will perform tomorrow... A busy but exciting schedule!

- Heather