Last Saturday, June 11, The wonderful Quintet of the Americas performed my entire 4 movement work, Begin Again at the Queens New Music Festival. Led by the kind, understanding, and talented French Hornist, Barb Oldham, the players gave a spirited and deeply musical premier of the work. The piece is 20 minutes long–the longest piece…

The Queens New Music Festival was once, again a huge success. Most of its success should be given to Tom Piercy. Tom is a gifted clarinetist, a wonderful Executive Director of Random Access Music, and a really nice person, to boot. Tom has guided RAM recently, and I am grateful for his support over the…

June 12 at 5:00 concert of some of my works. To purchase tickets https://www.culturelablic.org/calendar n June 12 at 5:00 pm, RAM, the group I founded back in the early 2000’s, will produce a concert in honor of my long commitment to the organization. They’ll perform works from my past. I am so thankful that this…

My fellow members of Random Access Music have decided to honor me with a solo concert! The concert will happen at The Culture Lab in Long Island City. The following link will lead you to a ticketing and reservation site: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ram-queens-new-music-festival-2022-june-10-11-12-tickets-338203053437 I am so touched by all the amazing people who kept the festival alive…

About a decade ago, I came up with the idea to create a festival for new music, inviting any all new music performers to apply to hold a concert here in Queens New York. Its success continues to amaze me. It is run by the composers’ group I started back in about 2006. http://ram-nyc.org It…

Tonight, “Begin Again”, the 1st movement of the woodwind quintet I was composing when my cardiac arrest occurred will be performed by the talented Quintet of the Americas. The following link is for the live stream that starts at 7pm. https://www.youtube.com/user/NatOperaCenterLIVE The link will stay active after the live stream so you can view at…

My woodwind quintet, Starting Over will be performed Monday Nov 8 at 7:00 PM at the National Opera Center in Manhattan, 330 7th Avenue, 7th floor,/Manhattan, NYC NY. This composition is the piece I was working on in March, 2014 when I suffered a cardiac arrest. It is only the second piece I’ve been able…

Here’s a link to the live performance of Jade Dance. (Max Lifchitz, piano) MaxLichitz is an amazing pianist–his performances are always technically strong, and his musicality is always spot-on. As you can see and here, I am very lucky to have such a musician champion my work. Later this year he will take on my…

A performance of my piano solo, Jade Dance may be seen at this link: https://cts.vresp.com/c/?NorthSouthConsonance/a75433c18d/b17d30d609/e6aeb45e7d

Tomorrow, , May 24, 4:00 pm online performance my of Jade Dance by pianist, Max Lifchitz and North\South Consonance. Please join Max and me. Jade Dance is a wild ride, in which the music gets faster and faster and crazier and out of control until the the music just can’t be played any longer and…