Tommy & Yoon & Pas de Deux at the Phillips – sold out
Tommy Mesa and Yoon Lee perform my piece Pas de Deux on SUNDAY CONCERT JANUARY 19, 2025, 4-5:30 PM at the Phillips Collection. The concert is sold out but there is a live stream!
2025 Grantee DC Commission on Arts & Humanities!
I’m happy to report that I am a recipient of a grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities. I’d like to thank the Commission for their support of my ongoing work as a composer. Onwards and upwards.
The Angel Arrives!
Balance Campaign plus Carolyn Shaffer are hard at work to bring you my new setting of William Blake’s The Angel this Wednesday night! Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7:30 pm, Ward Hall Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, free
New Choral Piece Sweet Stillness
Sweet Stillness is a seven minute plea for peace, kindness, and grace through humility. The music creates a neutral space to contemplate, center, feel, and extend grace to one another in a world currently full of darkness and strife. The work is dedicated to Dr. K. M (Kay) Knittel “who still lights the world around us.” … Read More
2 Upcoming Local DC Performances Of My Music
The Angel for voice and chamber ensemble from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience Carol Shaffer, Mezzo-Soprano, and Balance Campaign Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7:30 pm, Ward Hall Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, free Sweet Stillness for soloists, mixed choir, and ensemble on texts by Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Joel Phillip … Read More
A Special Occasion & Pas de Deux in the New York Times
Extra! Extra! Read all about it, in the New York Times Our dear friends Pam & Steve Dillon recently remarried in the way only Pam & Steve could: an exquisite, private ceremony, and, of course, a performance of the piece they commissioned from me years ago Pas de Deux. As requested, I read the original … Read More
My cello-piano piece Pas de Deux returns to NYC!
Pas de Deux is a special piece created under unusual circumstances. Initially it was commissioned by a dear friend to celebrate a her spouse’s birthday. It was revised and expanded, reforged even, under the dark shadows cast by 9/11. And now? Performed at a beautiful private ceremony marking the remarriage of these two dear and … Read More
New Stanford Beatles Course February 14th: The White Album!
It wouldn’t be a new year without a new Beatles course! Indeed, I return to Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program, where I have taught since 2008, with Music 48 The Beatles (AKA “The White Album”) starting February 14th. From Rishikesh to the last take of Julia, this 4-session mini course will be live online, Wednesday evenings, which means … Read More
Pas de Deux returns!
A “long time ago” I had the lovely and unusual experience of having a dear friend, Pam, commission me to write a surprise birthday present for her husband Steve. Pam and I sat and discussed ideas for the narrative, the different stages a deep relationship undergoes, and how even the passage of time seems altered … Read More
New vocal setting of Blake’s “The Angel”
I’ll be our joining our composition students and other Catholic Univeristy faculty writing a joint song cycle setting of excerpts from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience for talented CUA singers (in my case Carolyn Shaffer) and the awesome ensemble-in-residence Balance Campaign. My friend and colleague Stephen Gorbos and impresario thought up this wonderful … Read More