Jenny Lin and ICEBERG New Music at (le) poisson rouge

This Thursday! 10 new études by ICEBERG composers, in a live episode of WFMT Relevant Tones. (My piece is called “Knuckles,” after Frankie.) A few classics as well. Doors at 7, show at 8.

The radio show will be available as a podcast episode if you miss it. And Jenny will be recording the entire set for our debut album on Sono Luminus, with scores to be published on New Music Shelf!

https://lpr.com/lpr_events/relevant-tones-etudes-project-january-17th-2019/

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Raaga, Jenny Lin, and more

I'll keep it brief:

1. I'm working on a piano étude for Jenny Lin and ICEBERG New Music. Jenny will be recording our études and touring with them, culminating in a January 2019 presentation on Seth Boustead's radio show Relevant Tones, broadcast live from (le) poisson rouge in New York.

2. My choral piece Motion and Use, developed this past winter at the Banff Centre with Pro Coro Canada and Michael Zaugg, will receive its full-chorus premiere this fall in Edmonton. I'm grateful to Pro Coro and Michael, and I can't wait to hear how it sounds expanded from eight voices to twenty-two. More info here: https://procoro.ca/event_A%20Living%20Soul

3. I just finished a two-week intensive at Arts Letters and Numbers outside Albany, NY. The Creative Music Intensive focused on areas of music often ignored by major institutions: we studied just intonation and sang raagas every morning. Lots of free improv, too. Getting outside the new music sphere - in any way - is vitally important for composers if we are to remain fresh.

4. I'm currently participating in New Amsterdam Records' Composer Lab, and I can't recommend it highly enough. If you're trying to build a career and a musical life in the cracks between institutions, and if you're not quite sure where you fit - as has often been the case for me - the Lab is well worth checking out.

5. I'm getting married next month! I know it's not Career News but I run this website by myself and you can't stop me from kvelling.

Banff and ICEBERG

I've just returned from three weeks at the Banff Centre, where I participated in the first Banff Choral Arts program with Pro Coro Canada and Michael Zaugg. I can't recommend the program enough; if you're a composer or conductor with any interest in choral music, apply. It's so rare to compose music and hear eight professional singers read it literally an hour later. Everybody involved was incredibly friendly and supportive, which can be sadly uncommon in our little field.

Also, the Banff Centre is the most luxurious artist residency I've ever attended - three delicious meals a day, a full gym, and three ski resorts within an hour's drive. We did a day trip to frozen Lake Louise, where I played hockey and hiked across the lake. Like I said, apply!

This past February, the Locrian Chamber Players - New York new music stalwarts who only perform music less than ten years old - performed my trio Devotion (for flute, cello, and piano). I wasn't there but I heard the performance went swimmingly, and I'm honored to have been programmed by such a distinguished ensemble.

Coming up soon:

  • Tomorrow, March 17, my clarinet solo Eat Your Vegetables will be performed at the NACUSA National Conference in Kansas City. 2pm, Gano Memorial Chapel at William Jewell College.
  • ICEBERG New Music's 2018 season is here! On March 23, the great Mivos Quartet will premiere my first string quartet, Earth Tones, at the Tenri Cultural Institute in downtown Manhattan. It's an investigation of Schumann resonances via just intonation and dance-pop. We also have a concert on April 20 with two-keyboard two-percussion powerhouse Yarn/Wire, also at Tenri.
  • On April 5, the Boston New Music Initiative will present Eat Your Vegetables at Arts at the Armory in Somerville.

Hope to see you somewhere at something!

I'm in the Boston Globe!

The Boston Globe just ran an article about my friends in Black Sheep, and clarinetist Bradley Frizzell said some nice things about my clarinet solo "Eat Your Vegetables"! Check out the whole article here, and come out tomorrow night to the Lilypad in Cambridge to hear the piece.

And listen to "Eat Your Vegetables" performed by NY Philharmonic legend Stanley Drucker here.

"fall" happenings

It's still way too hot in NYC. Do we have seasons anymore?

In any case:
October 6 - catch ShoutHouse performing Dharmakaya with dancers at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn, and Black Sheep performing Eat Your Vegetables in Cambridge, MA.

November 19 - Sonic Liberation Players perform Koch-aine in Watertown, MA (Boston area)

and coming up next year:
March 23 - Mivos premieres my first major string quartet, presented by ICEBERG New Music, in Manhattan.

April 6 - Boston New Music Initiative performs Eat Your Vegetables in Somerville, MA.

details on the events page. and more soon!