Intimate Voices wins Lee Ettelson Composers Award(4/1/2017)-My Intimate Voices for string quartet was selected as the winner of the 2017 Lee Ettelson Composers Award. Chosen from over ___ entries, it will be performed in the Bay Area by Composers Inc. during their 2017-18 season. Intimate Voices was commissioned by Miriam Schulman for the Lyris Quartet as a companion piece to Janacek’s […]
Canciones de Agua presented by Jacaranda(11/6/2016)-On November 19, 2016, Jacaranda presented my Canciones de Agua with mezzo-soprano Peabody Southwell and violinist Vijay Gupta performing the work exquisitely. Canciones de Agua was commissioned by Ingeborg Danz and Peter Stein. It features five settings of poems by Pablo Neruda.
Lyris Quartet premieres Intimate Voices(10/8/2016)-Lyris Quartet premiered Intimate Voices on October 8, 2016 at Jacaranda. More on the project here. A lovely video documenting their performance of my work:
New CD Released!(2/14/2013)-A CD featuring my complete piano music was released on January 29 on the Sono Luminus label. My works on the disc include Snapshots, a set of 22 miniatures that I composed between 2000 and 2005, and Piano Sonata No. 1 (1995), which was praised by the Los Angeles Times as “a gratefully idiomatic piece […]