Thanks for visiting my website. Here you'll find info on my music, including score and audio excerpts, as well as other related things.
Upcoming performances as composer and/or pianist:
- Spring-Summer 2011: A new article titled New Colors: Notes on Composing in the 21st Century has appeared in the latest edition of Esopus Magazine.
The article contains observations about the creative process, recent
preoccupations and modes of thought from the world of contemporary
music, and some personal history too. And there's a CD attached (13 Composers) that I've curated, with excerpts from a wide cross-section of new music that I find compelling. Buy a copy online or find it in stores.
- Nov. 18, 2011: Performance of Stockhausen's Kontakte at the German Consulate General, NYC (871 UN Plaza). Also works by Bettendorf and Rihm.
- Nov. 26, 2011: Premiere of Fog Mobiles, version for horn and large orchestra, at the Böllenfalltorhalle Darmstadt, Germany. Saar Berger, soloist; Matthias Pintscher, conductor; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester). Part of the cresc... Biennale für Moderne Musik. Also works by Stockhausen (Gruppen), Xenakis (Terretektorh), Thierry de Mey.
- December 12, 2011: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Harris Theater, on a CSO MusicNow concert.
- December 17, 2011: US premiere of Discrete Infinity with the Talea Ensemble at Merkin Hall, NYC. Part of Inharmonic/(X)enharmonic, a concert and conference celebrating microtonal music that I am curating. Also works by Toby Twining, Dean Drummond, Tristan Murail, Enno Poppe, and Ivan Wyschnegradsky.
- May 25, 2012: new work for traditional Chinese instruments, for the Taipei Chinese Orchestra (in honor of Chou Wen-chung), Taipei Zhongshan Hall.
- June 4, 2012: US premiere of Fog Mobiles (version for horn and chamber orchestra), with the League of Composers Orchestra, Miller Theatre, NYC.
- October 2012: Premiere of a new work for large ensemble, commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain of Paris.
Recent news/performances:
- Oct. 23, 2011: Two of my transcriptions of Jimmy Giuffre's Free Fall improvisations for clarinet performed by Rane Moore at the Roger Smith Hotel, NYC. Part of the Talea Ensemble's program, "The Art of Transcription."
- Oct. 16, 2011: Performance of Roundabouts for solo piano by the composer at Miller Theatre, NYC. Part of the SONiC Festival marathon concert.
- Sept. 30, 2011: Performance of Roundabouts for solo piano by the composer at the Stone in NYC, with additional works by Curran, Pesson, and Adan.
- Sept. 24, 2011: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by the musicians of the International Ensemble Modern Academy, at the Festival Musica in Strasbourg. Additional performance on Sept. 28 at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt.
- June 4, 2011: Performance of Centripedalocity by the Linea Ensemble at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, NYC. Part of a joint concert of the Linea and Talea ensembles. New York Times review of the concert.
- May 8+9, 2011: Premiere of Discrete Infinity by the Ensemble Modern at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and Frankfurt Alte Oper, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke.
- January 22, 2011: Performance of vis-à-vis by the Ensemble Modern at the Ultraschall festival in Berlin.
- January 21, 2011: Danish Counterpoint with the Talea Ensemble: works by Bent Sorensen and Hans Abrahamsen (US premiere of Schnee) at the Scandinavia House, New York City.
- January 15, 2011: Premiere of vis-à-vis for 18 musicians at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, commissioned by the Ensemble Modern for its 30th Anniversary, conducted by Franck Ollu.
- December 19, 2010: Talea Ensemble's Exploded Melody: Synchrony, Heterophony, Infinity concert at the Roger Smith Hotel. Works by George Enescu, Stefan Niculescu, Per Nørgård, and Julian Anderson.
- December 9, 2010: Azure Ensemble performs Windswept Cypresses at Merkin Hall, New York.
- December 6, 2010: Pierre Boulez 85th birthday concert with the Talea Ensemble at Miller Theatre, New York. The New York Times' review of the concert.
- November 4, 2010: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by the University of Washington Contemporary Group, conducted by Vu Nguyen.
- October 24, 2010: Pianist Benjamin Binder premieres Eusebius and Florestan, Alone Together as part of his Carnaval nouveau project, Pittsburgh, PA. Additional performance-lecture at Boston University on October 26.
- October 13, 2010: Ensemble Dal Niente performs Centripedalocity for seven musicians in Chicago.
- October 1, 2010: Stockhausen's Kontakte with the Talea Ensemble at the Spark Festival, Minneapolis, MN.
- June 27, 2010: U.S. premiere of the complete Professor Bad Trip cycle by Fausto Romitelli with the Talea Ensemble during the Bang on a Can Marathon at the World Financial Center in New York City.
- May 12, 2010: Azure Ensemble performs Windswept Cypresses at the Players Theatre, New York City, 8PM.
- May 7-9, 2010: Ensemble Interface, conducted by Scott Voyles, performs Enjamb, Infuse, Implode in Germany (Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Schloss Engers, and Mainz Villa Musica) as part of its 2010 Villa Musica Tour.
- April 20, 2010: Performance of Windswept Cypresses by the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, conducted by David Dzubay.
- April 16, 2010: Performance of Refrain from Riffing at Northwestern University with Ryan Muncy, alto sax, and Ben Melsky, harp.
- April 8, 2010: Talea Ensemble at Roulette in a tribute to Fausto Romitelli. Works by Lanza (Aschenblume), Boulez (Dérive I), and Romitelli.
- April 3, 2010: Premiere of Refrain from Riffing at the Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC. Columbia Composers concert, with Michael Ibrahim, alto sax, and Jacqui Kerrod, harp.
- March 27 and 29, 2010: Suggestioni - Out of Italy. Talea Ensemble at Harvard University and the Casa Italiana (NYC) in works by Italian composers: Francesconi, Gervasoni, Nieder, Vanoni, Franceschini, Billone, Gardella.
- March 16, 2010: Performance of Roundabouts (German premiere) by pianist Ueli Wiget at the Alte Oper/Mozart Saal in Frankfurt, presented by the Ensemble Modern (30th Anniversary Concert).
- March 6, 2010: Premiere of Roundabouts for pianist Ueli Wiget and video artist Lillevan in Fribourg, Switzerland. Also works by George Benjamin, Hanspeter Kyburz, Messiaen, and Debussy.
- November 13, 2009: Morton Feldman's Why Patterns? with the Talea Ensemble at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 8PM. Also works by Fabien Lévy and Salvatore Sciarrino.
- October 3-17, 2009: Talea Ensemble with the Hyperion Ensemble of Bucharest. Concerts in Paris and London as part of the Spectrum XXI Festival. Works by Dumitrescu, Avram, Hodgkinson, and Diaz de Leon.
- October 6, 2009: Talea Ensemble with Ensemble Cairn in Paris. Included performance of Running the (Full) Gamut for solo piano.
- September 25, 2009: Mario Diaz de León's Gated Eclipse for sextet/electronics with the Talea Ensemble at Roulette (8PM) as part of Mario's CD release event with the International Contemporary Ensemble.
- September 24 2009: Stockhausen's Kontakte, Tenney's Ergodos II, and Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen. Talea Ensemble concert at Roulette with Alex Lipowski, percussion, and Victor Adan, sound engineer.
- August 20, 2009: Premiere of Interlude and Part II of Color Coordinate(s) for ten musicians by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt conducting, as part of the Rencontres de Musique Nouvelle of the Domaine Forget (Saint-Irénée, Québec). Audio excerpt.
- May 30, 2009: Premiere performance of a new jazz ensemble octet (Foregone Conclusion) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, with musicians from the jazz program at Columbia University and Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band.
- May 10 and 12, 2009: Hyperbaton for 19 musicians was commissioned and premiered by the Ensemble Modern, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke, in Frankfurt and Munich. Audio sample 1 and 2.
- April 28, 2009: Performance with the Talea Ensemble, with works by Romitelli, Ferneyhough, Rands, Billone, and Hurel, at the Players Theatre in NYC.
- April 13, 2009: Premiere of Flyway Detour (original trio version) by the Callisto Ensemble in Chicago.
- Feb. 14, 2009: First US performance of Centripedalocity at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, conducted by the composer, on a Columbia Composers concert. Audio excerpt 1 and excerpt 2. Score excerpt.
- Feb. 7, 2009: Two performances of Windswept Cypresses at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in Finland.
- Dec. 6 and 10, 2008: Performances with the Talea Ensemble at Columbia University and the Players Theatre, NYC.
- Nov. 10-12, 2008: Performances and a masterclass with the Talea Ensemble at the 6th Contemporary Classical Music Festival in Lima, Peru.
- Nov. 6-9, 2008: Performances with the Talea Ensemble at La Ciudad de las Ideas conference, Puebla, Mexico.
- Oct. 24, 2008: Centripedalocity for flute, clarinet, alto sax, harp, violin, viola, and cello, was premiered at the Conservatoire de Paris, Espace Maurice Fleuret.
- Sept. 2-5, 2008: Pantoumime for orchestra was selected for the Tactus Young Composers Forum in Belgium, featuring workshops with the Orchestre National de Lille, conductor Jonas Alber, and many composer guests. The piece will be recorded and released on CD in the future. Color Coordinate(s) for ten musicians was performed by Musiques Nouvelles, Jean-Paul Dessy conducting.
- April 30, 2008: Students from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music performed Windswept Cypresses.
- April 29, 2008: The Collegium Musicum of Columbia University premiered Contra/ficta (after J.S. Bach) at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University.
- April 16, 2008: Performance with the Talea Ensemble in works by Jason Eckardt, Geof Holbrook, Claude Vivier, Michael Gatonska, Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, and myself (piano version of Running the Full Gamut) at the Stone in NYC.
- April 5, 2008: Color Coordinate(s) (score sample, audio sample) was premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at Merkin Hall, NYC.
- March 31, 2008: I premiered Second unRaveling: (4X25) Chains of Sisyphean Shepard Tones for piano (score) at a New York Miniaturist Ensemble concert and gave the premieres of many new works by other composers with violinist Erik Carlson.
- March 14, 2008: Windswept Cypresses received the First Prize and Public Prize at the 6th International Henri Dutilleux Composition Competition. The piece will be published by Editions Alphonse Leduc and score/parts will be available for purchase (check back for details).
- Dec. 12, 2007: Performance with the Talea Ensemble at the Tenri Cultural Institute. Program included the US premieres of new chamber works by Marco Stroppa, Aldo Clementi, and Stefano Gervasoni, as well as pieces by Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey.
- July 19, 2007: Flyway Detour, version for sixteen musicians (score sample, audio excerpt), was premiered by the Orchestre National de Lorraine, at the Centre Acanthes festival in Metz, France.
- June 21, 2007: The Second Instrumental Unit performed Enjamb/Infuse/Implode at the American Composers Alliance 2007 Festival of American Music, Symphony Space in NYC.
- June 16, 2007: eighth blackbird performed Enjamb/Infuse/Implode at the Music07 Festival in Cincinnati, OH. The piece was selected as a co-winner of the Music07/eighth blackbird competition.
- May 5, 2007: Performance with the Talea Ensemble at its debut concert, including a performance of my Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. The program also featured Alexandre Lunsqui's Ligare, Jonathan Harvey's Nataraja, excerpts from Salvatore Sciarrino's L'Opera per flauto, and Gérard Grisey's Talea.
- March 30, 2007: Premiere of Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, written for violinist Wayne Lee and friends, Paul Hall at Juilliard, conducted by the composer.
Some original transcriptions (do not distribute, for
reference only):
- Just You, Just Me from Bill Evans' overdubbed masterpiece, Conversations with Myself (1963) (3 of 4 choruses). The three pianos are heard through the left, center, and right channels.
- Billie Holiday sings Practice Makes Perfect (1940). Of course, it's impossible to transcribe her inimitable timing and inflection.