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On September 28, 2023, Global Music Awards announced the winners in their September, 2023 competition. “SpringScape,” recorded on the Klavier and Navona labels, earned a Silver Medal in the Contemporary Classical category. “SpringScape” was composed for and performed and recorded by the Debussy Trio, consisting of my longtime friends and [...]

A nice mention from Violinist.com linking to my piece NEVERTHELESS  […]

Trio Casals (Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, Anna Kislitsyna, piano, Alexandr Kislitsyn, violin) have a new album to be released on August 11. A Grand Journey, Vol. 2 includes my piece "Nevertheless." A Carnegie Hall premiere will take place November 10, 2023.  

This piece was recorded by the brilliant pianist Robert Thies at The Bridge in Glendale in 2013 […]

Niv Ashkenazi, violin and Leah Kohn, bassoon, collectively known as “Dyad,” performed my piece “Of Two Minds” on their concert at the Kennedy Center MILLENNIUM STAGE on July 21. […]

Coming August 10, 2023 on the Trio Casals album A GRAND JOURNEY 2, on the Navona label. The album includes my newest piece entitled Nevertheless. Available on all of the usual platforms.  

I’m a finalist in the instrumental chamber music category of The American Prize 2023 competition.

Event Horizon earned a Silver Medal in the Global Music Awards competition July 10, 2023. To listen to/watch Event Horizon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO4e4CAXW_k

July 8, 2023 Niv Ashkenazi, violin and Leah Kohn, bassoon, collectively known as "Dyad," will perform my piece "Of Two Minds" on their concert at the Kennedy Center  MILLENNIUM STAGE on July 21.

Bruce Babcock, Composer in residence Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival Dan Kepl, Festival Director  […]

Promethean Fire - Text by Alfred Noyes I sing of those who caught the pure Promethean fire One from another, each crying as he went down To one that waited, crowned with youth and joy. Take thou the splendour, carry it out of sight Into the great new age I [...]

Hugo actually had a career in film music which predated the introduction of sound into motion pictures in 1927. This career, as a cellist in theater orchestras in San Francisco, was actually ended by the advent of talkies. Arriving in Hollywood in 1929, at the age of 27, at the [...]