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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…
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Fall, 2013
I’ve got lots on my plate for this upcoming concert season. First up, on October 6, the Astoria Symphony Orchestra will premiere my new work Walamboltz. This work was commissioned by maestro Silas Huff and the ASO. The commission includes use of the work at a conductor’s workshop taking place here in NYC in the week preceding the premiere performance.…