NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Cellist Cecilia Huerta is performing a piece of mine, called Disbelievers, at the Dayton Chamber Music Society on Sunday, May 19th.

On May 22 at 7pm I'm playing a benefit concert for PS 107 in Brooklyn, featuring jazz versions of some of my film and television music. In the band are heavyweights Robby Ameen, David Ephross, Bob Franceschini and Mark Soskin. More info here

Here are some nice reviews of my opera, Doubt.

Here is a link for the Salon Series: American Voices evening of my music at Opera America on March 5, 2013. It includes performances of excerpts of DOUBT and WINTER'S JOURNEY by singers Lauren Flanagan, Michael Chioldi and Abigail Fischer. video...

Here are beautiful still photos and some performance video sneak peaks from the dress rehearsal of the opera DOUBT, at the Minnesota Opera.  Also very nice feature articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

And in other news, Winter’s Journey, a new piece of mine re-imagining the Winterreise poems of Wilhelm Müller (famously set by Schubert) is scheduled to premiere in spring of 2013. more...

Other upcoming work in the pipeline -- a DVD release of the opera Doubt, a concerto for orchestra and the great jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano, a brief song cycle for the Young People’s Chorus on New York, and a piece for the student choruses at the Kingswood Oxford School. Also another big theatrical/opera piece who’s details I can’t quite divulge yet.

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"Looking For Opera Inspiration", an article in the LA Times, where I am quoted discussing audience expectations.