A very thought­ful profile by the keen-eared writer Pwyll ap Siôn in this month’s issue of Gramo­phone. I’m not typi­cally in the habit of crowing about press, but this feels like a good summary of my activites over the past few years. Here’s a PDF link.

Back in the winter, I made three new arrange­ments of Elling­ton songs for my Carnegie recital program. Above, Prelude to a Kiss. You can find new films of Reflec­tions in D and The Single Petal of a Rose on YouTube. 

I’ve also published the scores to these tran­scrip­tions, avail­able here.

Indi­vid­ual tickets for my February 23^rd Carnegie Hall recital just went on sale today. Get ’em while they’re hot.

A brief note to say that I’ve just put up a 2023–24 season calendar, which includes a few rather exciting things. As usual, more to come as dates are confirmed.

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Johannes Moser’s new album Alone Together is out, which includes my eight-cello piece Ogee along­side many other new and exciting works with multiple electric cellos.

UPDATE, 6/16/22: every­thing in the store should be up and running smoothly. As always, please let me know if you think some­thing is not as it should be. I may even reward you with a “bug bounty.”

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A quick word of advice for those of you here to purchase scores: the Andres & Sons Bakery shop is in the midst of a tran­si­tion to a new backend service, which should be completed in the next week. In the meantime, you may find that certain pieces are unavail­able; rest assured our crack team of webmas­ters is on the case. For urgent inquiries, please contact the bakery. Thank you for your patience.

The composer Ingram Marshall died last week at 80. Ingram was my teacher, mentor, friend, and needless to say, an enormous influ­ence on my music and life. I’m working on writing an appraisal of Ingram’s music, explain­ing why it meant so much to his small but passion­ate audience. In the meantime, here is a new film of his solo piano piece Authen­tic Presence from 2002.

When I performed the piece at Wigmore Hall in 2012, I wrote in the program note:

Authen­tic Presence is one of Ingram’s few purely acoustic pieces. The elec­tronic-music tools of delay, reverb, and sampling are integral to his compos­ing style, taking their place along­side 1970s Cali­for­nia mini­mal­ism, Balinese and Javanese harmonies, and early American hymns in his musical nature preserve. Hazy memories of the civil rights protest song “We Shall Overcome” cycle through the dramatic episodes of Authen­tic Presence; the piece has a pleas­antly un-rigorous formal logic to it, concerned perhaps with follow­ing a train of thought rather than any set musical program.

NPR has a beau­ti­fully-written obitu­rary by Lara Pellegrinelli.

Here’s a quick heads up: I’ll be doing a teaching resi­dency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida from February 13-March 5, 2022. If you’d like to come study with me, please apply! I should mention that everyone gets a full schol­ar­ship. Here’s my “resi­dency statement”: 

The music world is vast, and it’s impor­tant to remember that composers have a special set of skills with which to move through it. Yes, we can sit in our studios and be lone geniuses, but our expe­ri­ence and training are most useful in contact with the outside world. Studying compo­si­tion must mean studying how to be a complete musician: how to collab­o­rate, inter­pret, commu­ni­cate about music, and help others bring not only your ideas but their ideas to fruition. This isn’t just high-flown idealism; it is, in my expe­ri­ence, the surest way to make a life in music. 

This resi­dency is open to anyone working in music creation (not neces­sar­ily in “Clas­si­cal Music,” though that is my field), partic­u­larly those inter­ested in collab­o­rat­ing with perform­ers, writing for instru­men­tal­ists, and commu­ni­cat­ing with live audiences.