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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.

last updated June 24, 2009

 

News

Upcoming performances:

- August 20, 2009: Premiere of new, expanded version of Color Coordinate(s) for ten musicians by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt conducting, as part of the Rencontres de Musique Nouvelle of the Domaine Forget (Saint-Irénée, Québec).

- late September 2009, date and venue TBA: performance of Stockhausen's Kontakte for piano, percussion, and 4-channel sound, Tenney's Ergodos II (electronics with instrumental responses), and Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen (piano and electronics). Talea Ensemble concert with Alex Lipowski, percussion, and Victor Adan, sound engineer.

Dates TBD - Two new works to be premiered soon: 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.

Also, a new page has been added at Instant Encore, with access to some audio streams of works (similar to those found in the "Works" section of this site).

Recent News/Performances:

- May 30, 2009: Premiere performance of a new jazz ensemble octet (Foregone Conclusion) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, with musicians from the jazz program at Columbia University and Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band.

- May 10 and 12, 2009: Hyperbaton for 19 musicians was commissioned and premiered by the Ensemble Modern, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke, in Frankfurt and Munich. Audio sample 1 and 2.

- April 28, 2009: Performance with the Talea Ensemble, with works by Romitelli, Ferneyhough, Rands, Billone, and Hurel, at the Players Theatre in NYC. 

- April 13, 2009: Premiere of Flyway Detour (original trio version) by the Callisto Ensemble in Chicago.

- Feb. 14, 2009: First US performance of Centripedalocity at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, conducted by the composer, on a Columbia Composers concert. Audio excerpt 1 and excerpt 2. Score excerpt. 

- Feb. 7, 2009: Two performances of Windswept Cypresses at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in Finland. 

- Dec. 6 and 10, 2008: Performances with the Talea Ensemble at Columbia University and the Players Theatre, NYC.

- Nov. 10-12, 2008: Performances and a masterclass with the Talea Ensemble at the 6th Contemporary Classical Music Festival in Lima, Peru.

- Nov. 6-9, 2008: Performances with the Talea Ensemble at La Ciudad de las Ideas conference, Puebla, Mexico.

- Oct. 24, 2008: Centripedalocity for flute, clarinet, alto sax, harp, violin, viola, and cello, was premiered at the Conservatoire de Paris, Espace Maurice Fleuret.

- Sept. 2-5, 2008: Pantoumime for orchestra was selected for the Tactus Young Composers Forum in Belgium, featuring workshops with the Orchestre National de Lille, conductor Jonas Alber, and many composer guests. The piece will be recorded and released on CD in the future. Color Coordinate(s) for ten musicians was performed by Musiques Nouvelles, Jean-Paul Dessy conducting.

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

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

- April 16, 2008: Performance with the Talea Ensemble in works by Jason Eckardt, Geof Holbrook, Claude Vivier, Michael Gatonska, Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, and myself (piano version of Running the Full Gamut) at the Stone in NYC.

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

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

- March 14, 2008: Windswept Cypresses received the First Prize and Public Prize at the 6th International Henri Dutilleux Composition Competition. The piece will be published by Editions Alphonse Leduc and score/parts will be available for purchase (check back for details).

- Dec. 12, 2007: Performance with the Talea Ensemble at the Tenri Cultural Institute. 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.

- July 19, 2007: 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.

- June 21, 2007: The Second Instrumental Unit performed Enjamb/Infuse/Implode at the American Composers Alliance 2007 Festival of American Music, Symphony Space in NYC.

- June 16, 2007: eighth blackbird performed Enjamb/Infuse/Implode at the Music07 Festival in Cincinnati, OH. The piece was selected as a co-winner of the Music07/eighth blackbird competition.

- May 5, 2007: Performance with the Talea Ensemble at its debut concert, including a performance of my Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. 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.

- March 30, 2007: Premiere of Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, written for violinist Wayne Lee and friends, Paul Hall at Juilliard, conducted by the composer.

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.