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…

Given the current political discourse about women’s roles in society and politics, and how one candidate has disparraged unmarried women as “crazy cat ladies” my wife, Rebecca Bratspies, encouraged me to share the audio of a work I wrote a decade and a half ago: This work was awarded as one of the best Solo…

In 2012, I had an idea about how to bring more of the arts, particularly music–particularly NEW music to my home borough of Quees, which despite its large population and the quite large number of musicians who live here always seemed to play 2nd (and, maybe, 3rd fiddle) to the boroughs of Manhatan and Brooklyn.…

April 29, 2024 is the 10 year anniversary of my emergence from a coma that started on March 31, 2014. I emerged blind, unable to stand, or, indeed. not really move, still with a feeding tube in my belly, and a breathing tube in my throat. When the doctors removed the trachea, they asked me…

Here’s a link to a video recording of a rehearsal last week of my new trio–to be premeired next Saturday at the Secret Theatre in Queens: For Clarinet, Violin, and Violincello, it’s pretty typical of my style: fast, fun, and rhythmic. https://www.facebook.com/570663131/videos/422122313624904/https://www.facebook.com/570663131/videos/422122313624904/

My latest work, Like Dancing Architecture will be performed twice next weekend. Saturday, March 23, 2024 at Secret TheaterSunday, March 24, 2024 at Martha Graham Studio Theater RANDOM ACCESS MUSIC Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 5pmThe Secret Theatre38-02 61st St., Woodside, NY 11377 Sunday, March 24 at 5pmMartha Graham Studio Theater55 Bethune St, New York,…

The 2023 Quens New Music Festival was a grand success to Random Access Music‘s members and directors, especially Executive Director Thomas Piercy, who both payed in and oranized the festival. Thanks Tom! I’m so proud that this festival, which I created and founded in 2012 is still running strong. I will post a video of…

May 6-10. My Furious Then Tranquil for Cl, Vn, Va, Vc, and Pn will be performed on May 6 at 8pm. at The Secret Theatre 50-12 Skillman Avenue, Queens, NY.

Thanks to everyone who either came to the performance of my Jade Dance, performed by Max Lifchitz. He played brilliantly. Can’t wait to work with him again later this season.