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March 12, 2019
March 12, 2019My friends Ovidiu Marinescu and Anna Kislitsyna have taken my cello sonata Imagined/Remembered with them on their current concert tour of China!
Recording with the Altius Quartet!
On January 6 I'll be recording my string quartet "The Present Moment" with the Altius Quartet in Colorado.I'll be working with producer Brad Michel and the quartet:Joshua Ulrich, violin Andrew Giordano, violin Andrew Krimm, viola Zack Reaves, cellofor a new album on the Navona label.
Fair Weather
Today we are posting the second of four new YouTube videos created to accompany my "Four Songs on Poems of Dorothy Parker" from The Navona CD "Time, Still." Videos created by Chad Michael. to purchase Time, Still
Ngaio Marsh on writing
Ngaio Marsh on writing - I believe her words apply to musical composition as well.“It must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The middle must be an extension and development of the beginning, and the end must be implicit in both. The writing is as good as the [...]
The Red Dress
Today we are posting the first of four new YouTube videos created to accompany my "Four Songs on Poems of Dorothy Parker" from The Navona CD "Time, Still." Videos created by Chad Michael.Juliana Gondek, mezzo-sopranoRakefet Hak, pianoDoug Masek, alto saxophone
Recording Session with The Altius Quartet
January 6, 2019 the Altius Quartet will be recording my piece "The Present Moment" for an upcoming release on the Navona label. Looking forward to working with this exemplary group of young musicians!
Flutist Lindsey Goodman presents a solo recital
Flutist Lindsey Goodman presents a solo recital, "21st Century Visions for Flute", at Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia on Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 pm. Lindsey will perform my piece for flute solo entitled SOLILOQUY.
The Orange County School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra
The Orange County School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Christopher Russell, will perform my piece EVENT HORIZONFriday, September 28, at 7 p.m. at Symphony Hall, Orange County School of the Arts, 1010 N. Main Street, Santa Ana 92701.
Sunday October 7
On Sunday October 7 at 3 p.m. in Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, Ursula Maria Kleinecke, soprano, Gayle Blankenburg, piano, and Kenneth Foerch, alto saxophone, will perform my song cycle “This Is What I Know - Four Poems of Dorothy Parker” - a piece commissioned by the amazing Juliana Gondek. Other [...]
It turns out that I earned an Honorable Mention in the 2018 American Prize
It turns out that I earned an Honorable Mention in the 2018 American Prize competition, instrumental chamber music category, for my cello sonata "Imagined/Remembered."The recording submitted was from my 2015 albumTime, Stillwith Armen Ksajikian, cello, and Robert Thies, piano
People have been asking me…
People have been asking me (well, one person has), why have you been chosen to compose a piece in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the birth of astronomer George Ellery Hale? And who was Hale?George Hale, born in 1868, founded Kenwood, Yerkes, Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Observatories. He also [...]
The premiere of “Watcher of the Sky”
The premiere of "Watcher of the Sky," - Next Sunday, at Mount Wilson, inside the dome of the 100-inch telescope, celebrating the sesquicentennial of the birth of George Ellery Hale.
