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Thanks for visiting my website. Here you'll find info on my music, including score and audio excerpts, as well as other related things.

 

News

Upcoming performances:

- Two new works to be premiered in the near future: Running the Full Gamut (score sample) for double-manual harpsichord, written for Takae Ohnishi; Refrain from Riffing for alto sax + scordatura harp, written for Eliot Gattegno and Hannah Lash.

- New work for flute, clarinet, sax, harp, violin, viola, and cello, for musicians of the Paris Conservatory (October 24, 2008).

Recent News/Performances:

- Windswept Cypresses received the First Prize and Public Prize at the 6th International Henri Dutilleux Composition Competition in March 2008. The piece will be published by Editions Alphonse Leduc and score/parts will be available for purchase (check back for details).

- Students from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music performed Windswept Cypresses on April 30, 2008.

- The Collegium Musicum of Columbia University premiered Contra/ficta (after J.S. Bach) at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, April 29, 2008.

- The Talea Ensemble, for which I am pianist and co-director, performed at the Stone on April 16, 2008. Music by Jason Eckardt, Geof Holbrook, Claude Vivier, Michael Gatonska, Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, and a new work of mine (piano version of Running the Full Gamut).

- Color Coordinate(s) (score sample, audio sample) was premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) on April 5, 2008, at Merkin Hall, NYC.

- I premiered Second unRaveling: (4X25) Chains of Sisyphean Shepard Tones for piano (score) at the New York Miniaturist Ensemble's recent concert on March 31, 2008 and gave the premieres of many new works by other composers with violinist Erik Carlson.

- The Talea Ensemble performed at the Tenri Cultural Institute on Dec. 12, 2007. Program included the US premieres of new chamber works by Marco Stroppa, Aldo Clementi, and Stefano Gervasoni, as well as pieces by Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey.

- Flyway Detour, version for sixteen musicians (score sample, audio excerpt), was premiered by the Orchestre National de Lorraine, at the Centre Acanthes festival in Metz, France (July 2007).

- The Second Instrumental Unit performed Enjamb/Infuse/Implode at the American Composers Alliance 2007 Festival of American Music, Symphony Space in NYC (June 2007).

- eighth blackbird performed Enjamb/Infuse/Implode at the Music07 Festival in Cincinnati, OH (June 2007). The piece was selected as a co-winner of the Music07/eighth blackbird competition.

- The Talea Ensemble's debut concert featured a performance of Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (May 2007). The program also featured Alexandre Lunsqui's Ligare, Jonathan Harvey's Nataraja, excerpts from Salvatore Sciarrino's L'Opera per flauto, and Gérard Grisey's Talea. I was pianist in my piece and for the Harvey and Grisey.

- Premiere of Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, written for violinist Wayne Lee and friends, Paul Hall at Juilliard (March 2007).

Some original transcriptions (do not distribute, for reference only):

- Just You, Just Me from Bill Evans' overdubbed masterpiece, Conversations with Myself (1963) (3 of 4 choruses). The three pianos are heard through the left, center, and right channels.

- Billie Holiday sings Practice Makes Perfect (1940). Of course, it's impossible to transcribe her inimitable timing and inflection.