NEWS
New York-based chamber group neoLIT will be performing selections from my second piano trio at the Workshop for Music Performance Concert Hall:
Friday, January 20th @ 7:30pm
Music of Our Time presents: neoLIT Ensemble with flutist Martha Cargo, clarinetist Erin Svoboda, violinist Nadya Meykson, cellist Aminda Asher and pianist Katya Mihailova
Works by Borzova, Goldberg, Aversa, Schoenfield, Bond
Admission: $20, $10 (students)
I am honored to have received a 2011-2012 ASCAPLUS Award, a financial award given by ASCAP recognizing “artists in the early and mid stages of their careers” for “creative contributions to American music this past year.”
My electroacoustic piece In Flight will be one of the works showcased in the Sound Walk Project at the Belém Art Centre in Lisbon during the 2011 Música Viva Festival, from the 9th until the 14th of September. I am honored that my piece was among one of 25 chosen out of 149 submissions from more than 30 countries.
Greetings from Maine! The faculty here at the Bowdoin International Music Festival will be performing the scherzo from my second piano trio as part of the Artists of Tomorrow Series. The concert will be on August 5 (time TBA); the performers are Peter Basquin (piano), Yang Xu (violin), and David Requiro (cello).
I’ve also just learned that my work In Flight has been selected for inclusion in the Electrogals 2011 Festival at the Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center in Portland, Oregon. The festival features electronic music from women around the world.
On May 6, I had the thrill and the honor of hearing my orchestral music in concert performance. The CSUN Symphony, under the direction of Dr. John Roscigno, did a smashing job. The full recording is available from my Catalog page.
In August I will begin a four-week residency at the MacDowell Colony. I cannot think of a more ideal place to begin composing my dissertation.
MacDowell is the oldest artists’ colony in the country, founded 1906 by the widow of composer Edward MacDowell. I’ll be working among writers, visual artists, filmmakers, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, and architects from around the world.
This summer I will be attending the Bowdoin International Music Festival on a Resident Assistant Scholarship. I’m looking forward to studying with Derek Bermel and Robert Beaser, and I’m also grateful for the privilege of living with great instrumentalists for six weeks. Few things are more inspiring than composing for people you know and like!
I’ve been named a Finalist for the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. I am touched to have received a student nomination and honored that the committee has selected me from 300 nominations as one of 20 Finalists. It’s been almost a decade since I first stepped in front of a classroom, and reflecting back I’m grateful for all the wonderful teachers that I have had as role models, starting with my parents and my older sister.
Drunken Boat is an online journal of art and literature founded about a decade ago by Ravi Shankar (not that one, this one). The journal is named after the Rimbaud poem.
My essay What I Learned from the Russians is in this issue’s nonfiction section. Enjoy!
Faculty from the Monmouth Conservatory will be playing the opening movement of my second piano trio on their March 23rd new music concert. The performance will be at 7pm in the Middletown Library (main branch).