My latest newsletter is out!

My latest newsletter is full of updates on activities! More exciting things to report in the upcoming months. Constructing Thought, One Note at a Time…

Next BSO/Levine Preconcert!

This Saturday, January 3rd, I’m giving my next preconcert talk for the Baltimore Symphony and Levine Music: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Nicholas McGegan conducting. 7 pm at the Strathmore Music Center. http://bsomusic.org/calendar/events/2014-2015-events/beethovens-9th.aspx

New season of BSO pre-concerts!

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 terrific memories of when LB showed me the desk in his studio in Fairfield CT. where he composed Chichester.

Angel Gil-Ordonez conducts my new orchestra piece

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 the students of the Georgetown University Orchestra. The commission was the idea of Music Director Maestro Gil-Ordonez. Thanks to the Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts for their support (that’s you Maya Roth and Anna Celenza!).

Just scored a social media video for a new startup Wine Ring!

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

My latest interview piece is now up on the Chorale Arts website

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!

Panelist on careers in composition Sunday 6/8 @3pm

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 — Atlas Composers Collective concert

post-concert reception

Final BSO/Levine preconcert of the season

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 season! A definite “must hear!”

This Saturday, May 24th, at 7 pm: Final preconcert talk for BSO/Levine Music for the season!

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.

Triptych receives its world premiere

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.