The Arias with Dance Glitch tour continues and heads north with an intimate concert at the Portland Piano Company. The concert starts at 7pm. Arias is commissioned by the Irving M. Klein International String Competition for the duo Soliloquy – Klein Laureates and Juilliard students Ariel Horowitz, violin & Lauren Siess, viola. This is the 3rd stop on the multi-city tour. Tickets and information here
The Arias with Dance Glitch tour continues with an intimate house concert at the home of Ruth Short in Palo Alto. Join us at 2pm for wine and snacks. The concert starts at 3pm. Arias is commissioned by the Irving M. Klein International String Competition for the duo Soliloquy – Klein Laureates and Juilliard students Ariel Horowitz, violin & Lauren Siess, viola. This is the … Read More
My latest Arias with Dance Glitch will be premiered on August 20th at the Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts in Berkeley CA. Arias is commissioned by the Irving M. Klein International String Competition for the duo Soliloquy – Klein Laureates and Juilliard students Ariel Horowitz, violin & Lauren Siess, viola. This is the 1st stop on the multi-city tour. Tickets … Read More
Heifetz International Music Institute Artists-In-Residence and alum Andrew Gonzalez gave an incredibly powerful and brilliantly rich account of my “fierce little viola piece” When the World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes at the Heifetz Institute’s Stars of Tomorrow summer concert series opener on July 5, 2016. Watch: When the World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes. Thanks to both Andrew and Heifetz’s Executive Director Benjamin … Read More
And… it’s done! My newest commission, from the Irving M Klein International String Competition, violin-viola goodness for Soliloquy, the superb Ariel Horowitz-Lauren Siess duo. West Coast friends: coming to a theater near you. The World Premiere takes place on August 20, 2016 at Maybeck Studio in Berkeley, CA before moving on Palo Alto (8/21), then Portland (8/24) and Ashland, OR (8/27), on to New … Read More
I’m very pleased that star violist Andrew Gonzalez continues being such a strong advocate of my work. Andrew is an alum of this illustrious program and is returning tonight as Artists-In-Residence and will perform my When the World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes at the Heifetz Institute’s Stars of Tomorrow summer concert series opener on July 5, 2016. The program also … Read More
Distinguished young viola virtuoso Andrew Gonzalez returns to Bargemusic on their Masterworks Series (with Ji, pianist) to perform my “fierce little viola piece” When the World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes on Friday, July 1st at 8 pm. Also on the program: Schumann (the Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70) and Brahms (both of the Sonatas for Viola and Piano). Tickets … Read More
Saturday night: Cool concert; Cool preconcert talk! Tan Dun, a Libby Larsen World Premiere, Gustav Holst! Tan Dun: Water Concerto; Libby Larsen: EARTH Holst Trope (BSO Centennial Commission, World Premiere)*; Holst: The Planets John Storgårds, conductor ; Christopher Lamb, percussion ; Baltimore Choral Arts Society Women’s Chorus, Tom Hall, director; Baltimore Symphony @Strathmore Music Center. @TanDunMusic, @LibbyLarsen, @BaltSymphony, @LevineMusic
Tonight my latest Baltimore Symphony/Levine Music preconcert talk: Andrey Boreyko, conductor; Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello Victoria Borisova-Ollas: The Kingdom of Silence (BSO Premiere) Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
When I sat with Barbara Day Turner after dinner in August 2013 at the Montalvo Arts Center and said “yes!” to her commission little did I know all the amazing things that would unfold over next the 2 1/2 years: Meeting the amazing Victoria Gau and Monica Bauchwitz and getting to work with them on this consortium … Read More