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4/11/2008
Tonight in Tokyo, the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra performs their consortium premiere of Climbing Parnassus, conducted by Masayuki Inagaki.
4/08/2008
Pages added for new works My Hands Are a City and Climbing Parnassus, as well as a live review recording of the Concertino, from last week's Arizona State University Chamber Players performance with flute soloist Elizabeth Buck and conductor Gary Hill.
3/30/2008
Last week: a terrific residency at Texas State University-San Marcos, featuring performances of Avenue X (led by Caroline Beatty), Moon by Night, and a premiere performance of My Hands Are a City conducted by co-commissioner Rod Schueller. This week: a residency at Arizona State University, where Gary Hill conducts his ensembles in performances of As the scent of spring rain..., Avenue X, and the Concertino for flute solo, chamber winds, and piano, featuring soloist Elizabeth Buck.
3/13/2008
Tonight at Town Hall, the NY Premiere of Concertino for flute solo, chamber winds, and piano, with the Boston University Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Richard Cornell with flutist Elsbieta Brandys, as part of my alma mater's InCite Festival.
3/11/2008
This week I'll be in Japan as a guest of the Japan Wind Ensemble Conductor's Conference, where Climbing Parnassus, a new work co-commissioned by "The Heartful Winds", Nagoya Wind Symphony, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble KANADE will premiere on the final concert of the festival with a special ensemble combining all the commissioners.
2/27/2008
3 performances this week at the CBDNA Regional hosted by UMKC and 2 at the CBDNA Southern Regional at Coloumbus State. In Kansas City, the Oklahoma University Wind Symphony performs As the scent of spring rain..., the Texas A&M-Commerce Wind Ensemble premieres My Hands Are a City, and the Texas State Wind Symphony plays Moon by Night. In Georgia, Georgia State's Robert Ambrose does a clinic on Moon by Night, and the Niceville High School Band performs As the scent of spring rain... with Frank Wickes conducting.
2/18/2008
Tomorrow I go to Atlanta for Thursday's World Premiere at the Society of Composers Conference of my Concertino for flute solo, chamber winds, and piano, with Robert Ambrose conducting the Georgia State University Wind Ensemble with Sarah Kruser Ambrose, flute soloist. Immediately afterward I head to Dallas for the Commerce Wind Ensemble's World Premiere of My Hands Are a City, under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Gershman.
2/17/2008
New Work: My Hands Are a City, a movement for large wind ensemble, celebrating Beat Generation themes, and expanding on my short work The Rivers of Bowery. MHAaC premieres begin in 7 days at Texas A&M-Commerce, Eastern Illinois University, University of Georgia, and the CBDNA Southwestern Regional Conference in Kansas City.
12/17/2007
It's Midwest Clinic 2007 this week, and Saturday Dec. 22, Kevin Sedatole's fantastic Michigan State University Wind Symphony, performs As the scent of spring rain..., with guest conductor Isaiah Odajima, to cap off this year's Chicago party.
11/05/2007
We've successfully scheduled the first World Premiere performance of the Concertino for flute solo, chamber winds, and piano: Society of Composers National Conference, February 21, 2008, at Georgia State University in Atlanta, conducted by Robert Ambrose, with soloist Sarah Kruser Ambrose.
10/21/2007
This week I'll be at Ohio State University for a short residency, working with Russ Mikkelson and Rick Blatty's ensembles on As the scent of spring rain... and Avenue X, culminating in a performance Tuesday evening.
9/25/2007
The 2007-8 bio is finally online, downloadable for concert programs in long or short versions.
9/18/2007
This Sunday, two As the scent of spring rain... performances, which might actually be near-simultaneous due to time difference: H. Robert Reynolds conducts the USC Thornton Wind Ensemble in L.A., and Kevin Sedatole conducts the Michigan State University Wind Symphony in E.Lansing.
8/22/2007
Commissioner Avian Music plays sessions next month for the World Premiere Recording of The Vinyl Six, for the chamber ensemble's new CD, scheduled for release in early 2008.
7/28/2007
An auspicious day - my Birthday (happens every year), and a Tanglewood Ozawa Hall premiere. H. Robert Reynolds conducts As the scent of spring rain... with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Wind Ensemble. As a BUTI alum, I am likely biased, but the ensemble is fantastic, the Maestro impeccable, the surroundings breathtaking, and the hall world class. Happy birthday!
5/16/2007
Hear a fantastic complete recording of As the scent of spring rain... - a marvelous performance by The Florida State University Wind Orchestra, conducted by Richard Clary, live at the 2007 CBDNA Conference in Ann Arbor.
5/15/2007
Commission Announcement: A short work for the 2008 Japan Wind Ensemble Conductor's Conference, co-commissioned by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, the Nagoya Wind Symphony, and Wind Ensemble KANADE.
5/14/2007
Commission Announcement: A consortium of 17 ensembles for a new movement for large wind ensemble, as part of a multi-movement expansion of The Rivers of Bowery.
4/25/2007
New pages are online for the freshly-completed Concertino, as well as the new miniature Dohyci. There is also now streaming audio for the in-progress song cycle, Found Postcards.
4/12/2007
Last night The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Dohyci, a new miniature I wrote for them for violin and bass clarinet. The NYME is dedicated to performing works composed of a 100 notes or fewer. Doyci premiered at Makor on W.67th Street, along with 2000 other notes.
4/02/2007
At last night's triumphant closing concert of the wonderfully successful 2007 CBDNA National Conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, The Florida State University Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Richard Clary,
performed a simply marvelous As the scent of spring rain... -- informed and sensitively beautiful. Stunning.
3/20/2007
In LA this week to attend rehearsals for the USC Thornton Wind Ensemble's Chunk performance this Sunday, under the direction of the great H. Robert Reynolds. Likely to be the Chunk to define all other Chunks...
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