Saturday night my season of pre-concert lectures at the Strathmore Center for the Baltimore Symphony and Levine music began with a bang: Marin Alsop conducted Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 (“Jeremiah”) and the Chichester Psalms, plus Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Two of my “Four B’s” (the others being The Beatles and Bird)! It also brought up some … Read More
I loved working with the fabulously talented Maestro Angel Gil-Ordóñez and the students in the Georgetown University Orchestra in a performance of my “The First Step Of the Journey” (an excerpt from my new orchestral piece) in conjunction with the Benoy Behl exhibition opening at the Spagnuolo Gallery on October 23, 2014. Expressly written for … Read More
I just scored this short social media video for a new incredible startup company Wine Ring (http://www.winering.com) co-founded by Pam Dillon and Andrew Sussman. “Discover what you love. Love what you discover.™ Launches this fall! Wine Taste Perception
I recently interviewed DC-based composer Armando Bayolo about his upcoming chorale premiere Lincoln that is part of next week’s joint Chorale Arts Society/Washington Chorus Made In America concert at the Kennedy Center. Go read it!
Atlas Composers Collective Sunday, June 8, 2014 Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H St NE, Washington, DC 20002 3 PM — panel discussion moderated by Ken Hopper, with local composers Steve Antosca, Armando Bayolo and Joel Friedman, and Collective members Levan Iordanishvilli, Lewis Krauthamer and Javier Ledesma. 4 PM — presentation by Washington Post critic Stephen Brookes 4:30 – 6:00 PM — … Read More
Last night was my last preconcert talk of the 2013-14 season with the Baltimore Symphony/Levine Music. A full house for Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff and then a stellar performance. Violinist Ray Chen ate up Tchaikovsky’s concerto followed by Paganini as an encore! Keep your eyes out DC, he’s doing a recital for Washington Performing Arts next … Read More
This coming Saturday May 24th is my next, and final, preconcert talk for the Baltimore Symphony and Levine Music for the season. Come hear and all-Russian program conducted by Hans Graf: Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (Ray Chen, violin). Preconcert is at 7 pm. Concert at 8 pm.
Young Peabody Conservatory cellist Jacques-Pierre Malan, a student of Amit Peled‘s, premiered the full 3 movement version of Triptych, my solo cello piece commissioned for the 2013 Klein International String Competition, at the Phillips Collection on May 4, 2014 to a sold-out house in the historic music room.
Saturday May 3rd was my most recent preconcert talk for the Baltimore Symphony and Levine Music at the Strathmore Center. The program consisted of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto (Op. 73) with Yefim Bronfman soloist and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 in D Minor (Op. 112, The Year Of 1917) . Marin Alsop conducted.
On Thursday, May 1st I had the pleasure of hosting the season preview for the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Chris Zimmerman opened and closed the festivities while I took the audience step-by-step through the terrific season Chris has planned. In addition there were chamber performances by FSO players mixed with this year’s young Feuer Competition … Read More