Protected: Selected Portfolio of Recent Works
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Cadillac Moon Ensemble CD Release
The wonderful NYC-based Cadillac Moon Ensemble has recorded a stellar album on New Dynamic Records, called Atlas, which features my 2009 piece Towards the Flame. The CD (and digital) release concert is happening in New York on Sunday, Sept. 30th at the DiMenna Center at 7:30, and the ensemble will be performing selections from the release. [...]
Night Rituals (2012)
for flute (dbl. picc./alto flute), bass clarinet (dbl. Bb cl), violin, cello, percussion, and piano
eighth blackbird, Contempo, Fulton Recital Hall, Chicago, IL, May 18th, 2012
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
This extraordinary project is still happening, but on a different timeline than I originally stated: as of now (April 2012), it has been postponed–please check back here periodically for news on its development.
I am composing a large but short chamber opera, adapting Rudyard Kipling’s classic children’s story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” about a young mongoose and his struggles [...]
Towards the Flame recording by The Cadillac Moon Ensemble
I recently got back from a wonderful recording session at New Dynamic Records in Indiana, where the Cadillac Moon Ensemble recently finished recording my 2009 work, Towards the Flame. This wonderful group of musicians did an incredible job, paying attention to every detail with the utmost care and artistry, and the result will be truly [...]
Protected: Three New Lullabies (2011)
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Fallende Sterne [Falling Stars] (2011)
for mezzo-soprano and piano (Mondnacht, No. 3)
text by Rainer Maria Rilke
Laura Mercado-Wright, mezzo-soprano, and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano
Recorded at Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, August, 2011
Towards the Flame III. Atlas (2009)
Live Performance by eighth blackbird
Currents, mvmt. III. Beaufort Gyre (2011)
for two alto saxophones, mallet percussion, and piano
live performance by Zach Herchen, Philipp Stäudlin, Ryan Packard, and Aaron Likness, June 26th, 2011
Inventions (2010), for two instruments
Invention I, for flute and cello—2’
Invention II, for viola and clarinet—3’
Invention III, for violin and contrabass—1’30”
Premiered July 2010 by the New Fromm Players at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Festival, Lenox, MA