Thanks for visiting my website. Here you'll find info on my music, including score and audio excerpts, as well as other related things.
Upcoming performances:
- March 6, 2010: Premiere of Roundabouts for pianist Ueli Wiget of the Ensemble Modern and video artist Lillevan in Fribourg, Switzerland. Also works by George Benjamin, Hanspeter Kyburz, Messiaen, and Debussy.
- March 16, 2010: Performance of Roundabouts (German premiere) by pianist Ueli Wiget at the Alte Oper/Mozart Saal in Frankfurt, presented by the Ensemble Modern.
- March 27 and 29, 2010: Suggestioni - Out of Italy. Talea Ensemble at Harvard University and the Casa Italiana (NYC) in works by Italian composers: Francesconi, Gervasoni, Nieder, Vanoni, Franceschini, Billone, Gardella.
- April 3, 2010: Premiere of Refrain from Riffing at the Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC. Michael Ibrahim, alto sax, and Hannah Lash, harp.
- April 8, 2010: Talea Ensemble at Roulette in a tribute to Fausto Romitelli. Works by Lanza (Aschenblume), Boulez (Dérive I), and Romitelli.
- April 16, 2010: Performance of Refrain from Riffing at Northwestern University with Ryan Muncy, alto sax, and Ben Melsky, harp.
- May 6-8, 2010: Ensemble Interface performs Enjamb/Infuse/Implode in Germany (Edenkoben, Neuwied, and Mainz) as part of its 2010 Villa Musica Tour.
- June 2010: New work for French Horn and orchestra for Philip Myers and the New York Philharmonic as part of the Composer's Studio project.
- June 27, 2010: Talea Ensemble gives the U.S. premiere of the complete Professor Bad Trip cycle by Fausto Romitelli during the Bang on a Can Marathon at the World Financial Center in New York City.
- Fall 2010: Eusebius and Florestan, Alone Together will be premiered by pianist Benjamin Binder as part of his Carnaval nouveau project.
- Fall 2011 or Spring 2012: premiere of a new work for large ensemble, commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain of Paris.
**Check out videos of the Talea Ensemble's live performances on youtube, including a complete performance (in four parts) of Stockhausen's Kontakte from September 2009, and a performance of Running the Full Gamut by the composer.
**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:
- November 13, 2009: Morton Feldman's Why Patterns? with the Talea Ensemble at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 8PM. Also works by Fabien Lévy and Salvatore Sciarrino.
- October 3-17, 2009: Talea Ensemble with the Hyperion Ensemble of Bucharest. Concerts in Paris and London as part of the Spectrum XXI Festival. Works by Dumitrescu, Avram, Hodgkinson, and Diaz de Leon.
- October 6, 2009: Talea Ensemble with Ensemble Cairn in Paris. Included performance of Running the (Full) Gamut for solo piano.
- September 25, 2009: Mario Diaz de León's Gated Eclipse for sextet/electronics with the Talea Ensemble at Roulette (8PM) as part of Mario's CD release event with the International Contemporary Ensemble.
- September 24 2009: Stockhausen's Kontakte, Tenney's Ergodos II, and Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen. Talea Ensemble concert at Roulette with Alex Lipowski, percussion, and Victor Adan, sound engineer.
- August 20, 2009: Premiere of Interlude and Part II 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). Audio excerpt.
- 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.