Tonight, “Begin Again”, the 1st movement of the woodwind quintet I was composing when my cardiac arrest occurred will be performed by the talented Quintet of the Americas. The following link is for the live stream that starts at 7pm. https://www.youtube.com/user/NatOperaCenterLIVE The link will stay active after the live stream so you can view at…

My woodwind quintet, Starting Over will be performed Monday Nov 8 at 7:00 PM at the National Opera Center in Manhattan, 330 7th Avenue, 7th floor,/Manhattan, NYC NY. This composition is the piece I was working on in March, 2014 when I suffered a cardiac arrest. It is only the second piece I’ve been able…

Here’s a link to the live performance of Jade Dance. (Max Lifchitz, piano) MaxLichitz is an amazing pianist–his performances are always technically strong, and his musicality is always spot-on. As you can see and here, I am very lucky to have such a musician champion my work. Later this year he will take on my…

A performance of my piano solo, Jade Dance may be seen at this link: https://cts.vresp.com/c/?NorthSouthConsonance/a75433c18d/b17d30d609/e6aeb45e7d

Tomorrow, , May 24, 4:00 pm online performance my of Jade Dance by pianist, Max Lifchitz and North\South Consonance. Please join Max and me. Jade Dance is a wild ride, in which the music gets faster and faster and crazier and out of control until the the music just can’t be played any longer and…

The incomparable pianist Max Lifchitz will perform my Jade Dance for piano solo on Monday, May 24 at 4:00 pm. It will be a virtual performance–details to be announced as soon as I know more.

It’s been 7 years since I last posted. The reason for this is that on March 31, 2014, I suffered a cardiac arrest–my heart simply (and suddenly) stopped beating. I was in Pittsburg, PA for a performance of Three Fantasies when it all happened. I was resuscitated by two strangers (who I have never found,…

Last Friday, Feb. 21, I had the enviable problem of needing to miss the performance of my newest work, 3 Phantasies for Cello and Piano, here in New York City in order to attend a performance of the same work on the same evening in Indiana. Both performances went splendidly–a beautiful performance in NYC by Kate…

This February 21st, 2014, I’ll be back home again in Indiana as a guest of my alma mater, Wabash College. Wabash will be presenting a Symposium on Music in the Liberal Arts, and they asked me to speak about my work as a composer. I countered with the offer to write a piece for performance,…

  My work Aspects Of A Singlularity for Viol Consort was premiered last weekend, Nov. 8/9 here in NYC. The performing ensemble was the nationally-acclaimed Parthenia Viol Consort. It was a great treat to work with these amazing musicians and to hear them play my work. I hope I get the chance to write for them…