Archive for 2015

Hi! Just got back from Milwaukee, and was overwhelmed by the amazing response to my new work The Branch Will Not Break for chorus and 10 players. The Shepherd Express wrote a really touching review of the work, but more importantly, take a listen if you have a second!

Hi! I’m headed back to the states in a week or so for the premiere of a brand spanking new, 20 minute work for 8 voices and chamber orchestra. It’s called The Branch Will Not Break and it set six poems by the amazing late poet James Arlington Wright. Present Music was kind enough to…

Hello from Rome! What a few months it’s been. After returning to New York for a few convulsive weeks, I headed out to the American Academy in Rome which is just an amazing and beautiful space. My colleagues are brilliant artists and scholars, and Rome is, well, my favorite place on the planet. And the…

Hi! So I’m currently up at the beautiful MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever experienced. There’s chickens, there’s amazing lunches. Aaron Copland wrote The Red Pony score in my studio. In short: It’s great. I’m working on a new piece for Present Music in Milwaukee here. I…

Introducing the 2015-2016 Rome Prize Fellows! @MorganLibrary pic.twitter.com/cjklrc2ddU — AmericanAcademy Rome (@AmAcademyRome) April 16, 2015

And here’s a video of David and Rachel’s beautiful performance of my Violin Sonata

—The amazing short story writer Tim Horvath interviewed me about composing Invisible Cities. At least it started that way, but found itself wandering into all sorts of divergent topics in and around composing and literature. It’s published on the Tin House blog. —Carol Ann Aicher and Kevin Chavez interviewed me for their Greenroom Conversations Podcast.…

A little note on my new violin sonata which premieres this coming February 6th at Subculture in NYC.

Exciting January! Lots of performances coming up this month. The Cornell Glee Club are taking my new choral piece they commissioned Not One Word based on texts by Ryokan on tour throughout the North East, including performances in Albany, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, New York, and more. Dates and details. Several performances of Memory Palace…