Music News

Fantasia: Nocturne, (solo flugelhorn, solo violin, and string orchestra, 2020), was published on Inviting Worlds, a PARMA album of orchestral works (July 2022). The music was recorded by the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Jan Kučera, conductor, December 2021. Soloists:  Roman Buchal, flugelhorn; and   

Jakub Černohorsky, violin.

Three by Five, for brass quintet (2016), was published on Brass Tacks, a PARMA brass compilation album (May 2022).  The music was recorded by the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava Brass Quintet in March 2021. In addition, the score is set for publication later this year in the SCI Journal of Music Scores, Vol. 62.

Janis Mercer and I have been invited to perform (Disturbed) Radiance (piano and Kyma) at Convergence 2022, to be hosted by De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, September 22-25, 2022. We will participate with two related events at the conference: 

  1) paper/demo: "Composition and Performance as a Collaborative Process" (Friday, September 23, 9:00am)

   2) concert performance (Saturday, September 24, Concert 9, 2:30pm)

Pianist Janis Mercer performed "Winter Stream Crossing" from my Drei Kinderstücke on the Sunset Music and Arts concert, March 13, 2002, in San Francisco, CA.