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PARMA Interviews Bruce Babcock

It won't be long now!

Release Date is May 11, 2018!Tunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/moto-bello/1371596566 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BSXVDB5ArkivMusic:  http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=2269162Naxos Direct: https://naxosdirect.com/items/moto-bello-444799 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parmarecordings/moto-belloYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoIrTQqTP2Q 

Time to pre-order your copy of MOTO BELLO from Casals Trio, featuring IMAGINED/REMEMBERED by Bruce Babcock, with Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, and Anna Kislitsyna, piano.http://bit.ly/MOTOBELLOpreorder

MoreComing soon! A new piece from yours truly. To be performed Inside the dome of the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, in honor of the 150 anniversary of the birth of observatory founder George Ellery Hale.

"Love and Remembrance"Hila Plitmann and Friends in ConcertMason Home Concerts Mason House, 3484 Redwood Avenue, Mar Vista, CA 900666 p.m. Saturday March 17, 2018Including a new piece by Bruce Babcock, written for my friend and colleague,the wonderful Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann, with string quartet.1st Violin - Ben Bartelt,  2nd Violin - Anna CorcoranViola [...]

February 15, 2018We just received a very positive new review of "Irrational Exuberance" from the 2017 Navona CD FLEETING REALMS."Irrational Exuberance, unusually scored for alto saxophone, cello, and piano, opens the release with an engaging blend of concert hall, Dave Brubeck, and Paul Desmond. The instrumental colors are striking, thanks [...]

Very excited to be composing a new piece for the fabulousHila Plitmannfor the March 17, 2018MASON HOME CONCERTMore details as we get closer to March of next year.

FLEETING REALMS, a new album of chamber works from Navona Records, will be released on Friday, September 8, 2017.The first track is my "Irrational Exuberance," which is also contained on my "Time, Still" album."Irrational Exuberance" features Doug Masek, alto saxophone, Louise Thomas, piano, and David Speltz, cello, and was commissioned by Doug.

With gratitude for the 34 year music ministry of James Walker at All Saints Church, PasadenaIf you know James at all, it comes as no surprise that he has a searchable database of the music used at every service during his tenure as music director at All Saints Church.I am [...]

On July 1 Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, and Anna Kislitsyna, piano, recorded by my cello sonataImagined/Rememberedin Philadelphia

Coming May 19, 2018 to Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York CityOvidiu Marinescu, cello, and Anna Kislitsyna, pianowill perform my cello sonataImagined/Rememberedbrought to you by Parma RecordingsThis piece appears on my 2015 albumTime, Stillon the Navona label From American Record Guide (July-August 2015)Mark Lehman Best, and most substantial, is Babcock’s [...]