The French pianist Nicholas Horvath is performing the complete Piano Etudes of Philip Glass at Weill Hall on 9 January, alongside a selection of homages. I wrote Enough Holes for the project, and it will be premiered on this concert. Should be a very cool evening of piano music!
A Monthly Series of New Music From Avant Media – NYTimes.com.
A commemoration of what would have been John Cage’s 102nd birthday will open the season, with a roster of new-music stars (among them Eve Beglarian, Vicky Chow, Nick Hallett, John King and Mr. Gibson) performing Cage’s 1970 “Song Books†(Sept. 5).Â
Mary Rowell and the Guidonian Hand are heading out to Arizona next week to do The River Project on the Grand Canyon Music Festival. Two nights: 22-23 August, should be lots of fun!!!
The League-ISCM is playing Waiting for Billy Floyd on Monday 17 June up at Miller Theater, which should be very cool. They’re doing the images as well, so that’ll be a nice thing. Mississippi in upper Manhattan!
Mary Rowell and I will be participating in the Firehouse Festival at Sandra Sprecher’s amazing space on Saturday night 27 April. We’ll be doing some stuff you’ve never heard, along with some favorites. The whole lineup looks like big fun! Click the poster for more info and tickets.
On Thursday 18 April, the Voices of Ascension under the direction of Dennis Keene will be premiering a new commission for chorus and organ called Building the Bird Mound. Click the photo for tickets and more information:
Building the Bird Mound was inspired by a visit I made to Poverty Point, a pre-historic mound complex in Northeast Louisiana, while traveling down the length of the Mississippi River by kayak and bicycle in the fall of 2009. Poverty Point, which was built sometime between 3500 and 1500 B.C. is structured as a series of long concentric half-circles that radiate from a center mound which is in the shape of a winged bird. When I stood in the center of the mound that November afternoon, I had a glimpse of something very powerful, a sense of being sheltered — held — in the body of this giant effigy bird, and close to the ghosts of all the people who had scrabbled in the dirt to pile up and carry soil, basket by basket, to build this sacred place. I knew then that I wanted to write a piece of music about this place and the people who built it, and Building the Bird Mound is the result of that afternoon’s inspiration.
An all-new CD of River Project music is now exclusively available for purchase here! The second signed limited edition EP includes four pieces from The River Project in wonderful premiere recordings by BRIM, the Guidonian Hand, and members of Portland’s Third Angle Ensemble. A perfect gift, buy one today!
If you happen to be in Yorkshire in July, definitely check this out, should be very fun!
then, next Wednesday 1 June, again at the Stone, I myself will be performing with fabulous guests Lydia Van Dreel, Mary Rowell, and Megan Schubert. works include the first performance of EinHorn for horn and electronics, and lots of other good stuff. Hope to see you there!
this coming Wednesday, 25 May, Ana Milosavljevic is doing a show at the Stone which will include a couple of pieces from me, including I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long. Go here for more details.
take your pick!
if you’re in Miami Friday night 2/25, you can hear My Feelings Now on this show:
and/or if you’re in NYC Saturday night 2/26, you can hear it on this one:
Ana and I will be playing I’m Worried Now, But I Won’t Be Worried Long this coming Wednesday at 6:30 pm, on a show that will also include music by Ana herself, with choreography by Takehiro Ueyama. Should be a fun show; here’s a link:
Dither is playing The Garden of Cyrus Saturday night at Abrons Arts Center, along with music by Nick Didkovsky, Ted Hearne, and Tristan Perich, and sponsorship by the Brooklyn Brewery. Should be a great way to spend one of these short dark holy evenings, no?!
We’re doing a first public showing of some of the River Project music at Roulette on 19 October 2010, joined by guest pianist Lara Downes and the fabulous trombone quartet, Guidonian Hand. Should be a festive event!
the excellent guitar quartet Dither will be playing The Garden of Cyrus at the totally fun New Music Bake Sale on Saturday night (9/25), and Cristian Amigo and I will be performing an all-acoustic version of We Two at the DUMBO Arts Festival at Galapagos on Sunday afternoon (9/26)
I am really excited about the new band I’m putting together to perform the music inspired by my trip down the Mississippi River. Yowsa! Click on the fish!!!
I’ll be doing two shows in March in the Bay area: at Stanford on 12 March, and at the Montalvo Arts Center where I’ve been doing a residency since the beginning of January, on 26 March.
Hope to see my SF friends at one or both!
I’ve been working for the last year on a piece for the incredible Los Angeles Master chorale with guest virtuoso Persian musicians Manoocheehr Sadeghi on santur and Pejman Hadadi on percussion. The new piece, Sang, will premiere at Disney Hall in Los Angeles on 3 and 7 June 2007, the second concert also being the inauguration of the celebrations of the 30th anniversary Chorus America conference. Learn more about it here, and join me in LA if you’re anywhere in the neighborhood!
Mabou Mines Dollhouse continues its worldwide tour in Rome, Italy at the Parco Della Musica 21-23 May 2007. Go here for more information.
