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Premiere of new work
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…
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Jade Dance
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…
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TODAY at 4:00
A performance of my piano solo, Jade Dance may be seen at this link: https://cts.vresp.com/c/?NorthSouthConsonance/a75433c18d/b17d30d609/e6aeb45e7d
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Concert announcement
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…
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New performance
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.
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I’m still here
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,…
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A Good Problem to Have
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…
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Wabash College Faculty-Alumni Symposium: Back Home Again in Indiana
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,…
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Thanks to Parthenia and Random Access Music
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…
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Parthenia performs my new work “Aspects Of A Singularity”
I first met Bev, Lisa, Larry, and Ros of the Parthenia viol consort when they performed at the very first Queens New Music Festival, which RAM–the composers’ collective that I founded–produces. RAM and Parthenia will be collaborating on a concert this November that will include my newest work, Aspects…