
Puts studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and, in piano, Nelita True. He also studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with William Bolcom and Bernard Rands. He is composer-in-residence at the Fort Worth Symphony and has received a commission from the Aspen Music Festival.
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If I Were a Swan
Contact: I. The Call
Contact: II. Codes. Scherzo
Marimba Concerto: III. With Energy
Evening
Contact: III. Contact
Contact: IV. Convivium
Marimba Concerto: I. Flowing
Marimba Concerto: II. Broad and Deliberate
Puts: The Hours, Act 2: "All Along?" (Clarissa, Laura, Virginia) [Live]
Aria
Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 23, There is another sky
Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 1, They shut me up
Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 7, Because I could not stop for Death
Home: Home
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: Prologue. "Flowers... Flowers" (Chorus) [Live]
Home: Warm, with rubato
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Here on This Corner" (Clarissa) [Live]
Charm
Concerto for Orchestra: IV. Toccata
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Platters! - What’s That, Babe?" (Clarissa, Sally, Chorus) [Live]
Symphony No. 2
Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 3, The Soul selects her own Society
The City
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "She Pauses at Its Threshold…" (Chorus, Clarissa, Man Under the Arch, Walter, Virginia) [Live]
Home: Faster, refreshed
Elegy for Brass
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Go Slowly. Ignore Your Novel" (Virginia, Clarissa, Chorus, Leonard) [Live]
To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: I. Annunciation (Magnificat)
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "There's the Scowl" (Virginia, Leonard, Chorus) [Live]
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Clarissa! - Barbara!" (Barbara, Clarissa, Chorus, Virginia, Leonard) [Live]
Home: Dangerously fast
Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: I. Prelude: Mission San Juan Bautista, ca.1800
Flute Concerto: I. With great sincerity and affection; flexible, with motion
Canyon: I. Toccata
To Touch the Sky: III. The Fruit of Silence
To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: III. The Fruit of Silence
Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Richmond… She Opens the Curtains" (Virginia, Chorus, Man Under the Arch) [Live]
To Touch the Sky: I. Annunciation (Magnificat)
To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: IV. Falling Snow
Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Moonlight
To Touch the Sky: II. Unbreakable
To Touch the Sky: IV. Falling Snow
Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 19, Her Face
Evergreen: Evergreen
Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 2, I was the slightest in the House —
Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 26, No Prisoner Be
To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: II. Unbreakable
Puts: The Hours, Act 2: "Heaven? Somebody Else’s Heaven?" (Chorus, Laura, Hotel Clerk) [Live]
To Touch the Sky: V. At Castle Wood
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