Early Autumn Update
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 food. That’s a whole other story.
I’m planning to post a big season update in the coming days. I can’t wait to share with you performances by groups including eighth blackbird, the Sharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, a Yellow Barn tour of Memory Palace, violinist Tim Fain, the return of the ACO Sonic Festival, a portrait concert in Baltimore, and more! Everything will be posted by October 14!
But as you can imagine with all the moving to Europe I’m a bit slow on the uptake. In the meanwhile, I wanted to share the release of Barbary Coast, an album of new music performed by Red Light New Music, a group that I co-founded in 2007 that features my piece The Night Mare. You can buy a hard copy from the New Focus site, order on iTunes, or stream below on Spotify.
The cellist Joshua Roman wrote a beautiful note on the piece here as part of Second Inversion radio, where my piece was a staff pick. And the site Textura wrote a particularly flattering review of of it here.
Doesn’t get much better than that! Check it out! And here’s the view from the 4th floor terrace at the American Academy.