Upcoming engagements: May and June 2012

Looks like the late spring is shaping up to be a busy time! Here's a look at what's coming down the pike.

• May 11: Three movements of Gift (including one never heard before) for five singers and chamber ensemble. Fifth Floor Collective: Season in Review 
• May 17: Premiere of Still Life, 1985 for clarinet, viola, and cello. Hyman Bloom Project: Alpha Gallery Show #1
• May 24: Repeat performance of Still Life, 1985. Hyman Bloom Project: Alpha Gallery Show #2
• June 9: Presentation at Trinity College's Alumni Weekend 2012. Includes brief survey of 20th- and 21st-century art music, thoughts on composing and process, and live performances of selections from my Missa Brevis for Three Male Voices and How sweet I roam'd by The Elmsmen.
• June 16: Premiere of [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] at a wedding ceremony in Connecticut.
• June 17: Recording session with the Boston Musica Viva, Marimba Magic, and Steve Aveson of The Tortoise and the Hare at WGBH studios.

Hope to see you at some of these!

Review from IN ABSENTIA now online

Not all that bad! Check it out when you get a moment, and please feel free to share your thoughts/comments here or on the Intelligencer's website.

Video: FERNCLIFF (2011) in rehearsal

Check out some highlights from this wonderful reading of Ferncliff by Erin Merceruio and Nicholas Place. This piece will be premiered this coming Friday, October 21, in Boston. The concert--In Absentia--is the first of the Fifth Floor Collective's second season. If you're able to attend, we'd love to see you there! Full details on the concert can be found here.

Come see the premiere of this piece (along with some stellar works by Andrew Paul Jackson, Joseph Colombo, and Matt Barnson) on Friday, October 21 in Boston. Admission is free! Full details are at www.fifthfloorcollective.com. Ferncliff is an arrangement of an excerpt of a larger piece for choir and orchestra titled GIFT.

New commission from Trinity Chapel Music

I recently received some wonderful news: John Rose, Director of Chapel Music and the Trinity College Choir at Trinity College, has commissioned me to compose a major piece for performance late in 2011.

The work will be for choir and orchestra, and will (hopefully) be a setting of the poetry of Hugh Ogden, a hugely influential Trinity professor of mine who passed away in 2008.

There will be much more information on the piece as it progresses in the following months. At the moment, I'm slowly making my way through a few other commissions from 2010.

Here's to a 2011 filled with music!