New Navona Album - The Crossing

Only two more days!

Very proud to be a part of the latest album release of The Crossing. The Crossing is a professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to new music. It is committed to working with creative teams to make and record new, substantial works for choir that explore and expand ways of writing for choir, singing in choir, and listening to music for choir. Many of its over seventy commissioned premieres address social, environmental, and political issues. The Crossing won both the 2018 and 2019 Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance. The album will be released June 28.

March 12, 2019

My friends Ovidiu Marinescu and Anna Kislitsyna have taken my cello sonata Imagined/Remembered with them on their current concert tour of China!

Recording with the Altius Quartet!

On January 6 I'll be recording my string quartet "The Present Moment" with the Altius Quartet in Colorado.

I'll be working with producer Brad Michel and the quartet:

Joshua Ulrich, violin 

Andrew Giordano, violin 

Andrew Krimm, viola 

Zack Reaves, cello

for a new album on the Navona label.

Fair Weather

Today we are posting the second of four new YouTube videos created to accompany my "Four Songs on Poems of Dorothy Parker" from The Navona CD "Time, Still." Videos created by Chad Michael. 

to purchase Time, Still

Ngaio Marsh on writing - I believe her words apply to musical composition as well.

“It must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The middle must be an extension and development of the beginning, and the end must be implicit in both. The writing is as good as the author can make it: nervous, taut, balanced and economic. Descriptive passages are vivid and explicit. The author is not self-indulgent. If he commands a good style, there is every reason for maintaining it. In an age of immensely long and undisciplined novels, one can do with some shapely ones, and in the midst of much pretentious obscurity, a touch of lucidity is not unwelcome.”

The Red Dress

Today we are posting the first of four new YouTube videos created to accompany my "Four Songs on Poems of Dorothy Parker" from The Navona CD "Time, Still." Videos created by Chad Michael.

Juliana Gondek, mezzo-soprano

Rakefet Hak, piano

Doug Masek, alto saxophone

Recording Session with The Altius Quartet

January 6, 2019 the Altius Quartet will be recording my piece "The Present Moment" for an upcoming release on the Navona label. Looking forward to working with this exemplary group of young musicians!