B. Allen Schulz

Last Sunday, the great pianist Max Lifchitz gave an astounding performance of my Jade Dance for solo piano. Max’s performance was particularly good, because my work was near the end of a long program that had lots of challenges for he left hand, including Berio’s “L.H. Thank you max for your continued support of my…

Random Access music will present music and dance that will include my “Multiple Solutions” for alto flute and Hichiriki. The title refers to the Alto Flute part, which uses multiple multiphonics in the flute part. Be forewarned that my work is just one work amongst almost 20 that were chosen from a call for 1…

Recently, I learned that my work. Multiple Solutions was chosen to be included in Thomas Piercy and Lish Lindsey’s project for alto flute and hichiriki. Vox Novus is pleased to announce the 15 composers selected for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Thomas Piercy (hichiriki) and Lish Lindsey (low flutes). This special collaboration will be presented November 14–15, 2025…

This Wednesday The Quintet of the Americas will perform my arrangement of “3 American Folk Songs” for woodwind quintet at the Queens Botanical Garden. The quintet is run, in part, by their French Horn player, Barbara Oldham. She and I met back in 2013 when we both served on a panel reviewing applicants for funding…

Random Access MusicThis is the festival I founded in 2013. It’s been running every year since its founding, except for 2020 when we had to cancel due to the COVID19 pandemic which hit New York City first and, probably, the hardest. It’s a 3 da event with 5 concerts of only music composed in the…

Recently, as as I was going through some old files in preparation to move later this year (more on that soon in another post), I came across a hand-written score. This score was the first work I ever composed, age 18. It’s for clarinet and piano. It’s clearly a beginner’s piece, but shows promise! It’s…

This is a video of guitarist Jay Source performing my 6 Bagatelles for Solo Guitar. It takes its title from composer Bela Bartok, who wrote 20 or so short works for solo piann, which he called “Bagatelles.” A bagatelle is a smal loaf of bread in French, a small bagette. Numerous composers have used the…

There’s a feature on Sibelius that I’ve just recently begun to use: Exort a movie of your score. Sibelius creates a a moving score of a work with sounds also created by Sibelius. Some of the sounds are quite good. I am presently creating the videos via Sibelius and then uploading them to YouTube, since…

New release track on Max Lifchitz’s performance of my work for solo piano, “Jade Dance”. This very difficult piece was written when I was a very young composer, not far removed from graduate program in composition at Brrooklyn College. It’s sort of a musical depiction of a player piano coming to life but spinning out…

Please join me and the players of Random Access Music to hear my new work Syzygy for Bass Clarinet and electronic loopers. Sept. 28 at 7pm at Graham Studio TheaterSept. 29 at 7pm at Secret Theatre This work grows out of my love for astronomy. When NASA began publishing the amazing photos of the most…