PERFORMANCES/EVENTS
Spring/Summer 2025
April 7: My Music for Tuba and Timpani will be performed by tubist Donath Rehm and timpanist Ginevra Palo at 7:30 pm in the Schillertheater in Berlin Germany. The concert is sponsored by the Berlin Comic Opera and is titled "Next Generation II Chamber Concert".
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April 10: Harp virtuoso Megan Sesma will perform my Spring Rain with the University of Connecticut Wind Ensemble under the direction of Janet Kim. The free concert will be at 8 pm in Von der Mehden Recital Hall on the Storrs campus.
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April 24: The Keene State Concert Band will perform my Stone Colors: Three Desert Images at the Redfern Arts Center in Keene, New Hampshire at 7:30 pm. John Hart will conduct. Admission: $15 general, $10 for students.
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May 14: Graduate student Linus Poon will perform my clarinet concerto titled A Dance Concerto with piano accompaniment in a recital at 8 pm in Berkman Recital Hall at the Hartt School on the campus of the University of Hartford.
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May 27: The Helsinki Flute Orchestra will perform my fanfare for eight flutes (including 2 piccolos and 2 alto flutes) in the recital hall of the Malmitalo Cultural Center in Helsinki, Finland at 11 am. Flutist Kathy Weidenfeller is the ensemble's director.
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June 12: The Duo Agosto (Lin-Fei Kang, oboe, and Charles Huang, English horn) will perform my Scherzi on a concert honoring the memory of the great oboe virtuoso Bert Lucarelli as part of the 2025 conference of the International Double Reed Society. The 1:30 pm performance will take place in Lilly Hall on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. The concert is only open to registered conference attendees.
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July 7: The Porfiris-Miller Duo (violist Rita Porfiris and violinist Anton Miller) will give the premiere of my Geyser Gazing in Yellowstone Park at the Murie Ranch in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming at 6 pm. The free concert is part of the annual Grant Teton Music Festival's. The duo commissioned this work as part of their National Parks Commissioning Project.
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July 12: The Porfiris-Miller Duo will reprise their concert of July 7 at 1 pm in the Teton County Library in Alta, Wyoming. I will be there to hear the second performance of my Geyser Gazing in Yellowstone Park .
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September 28: The US Coast Guard Band will perform my Riding The Crest in a free concert at 2pm in Leamy Hall on the campus of the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. Captain Adam Williamson will conduct the thirteenth performance of this work commissioned by the Coast Guard Band to celebrate its centenary.
News
Wind Quintet Recording Drops
A new CD of music performed by the amazing Belfiato Wind Quintet was released on April 4. The release features a recording of my Five American Portraits for Five Wind Instruments. I travelled to Prague, Czechia last May to help produce the recording. The album is available in Dolby Atmos and as a visual album.
New Work Featured On Tour By the US Coast Guard Band
My work Riding the Crest was featured in eleven concerts by the United States Coast Guard Band during its February West Coast tour of Washington, Oregon and Northern California. The work was commissioned by the USCGB in celebration of its centenary and premiered on February 2 on the campus of the US Coast Guard at Leamy Hall in New London, Connecticut. A video of the premiere performance is to be released soon. The above photo was taken at the band's February 20 concert in Bellingham, Washington in the beautiful Lagerquist Concert Hall at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
New Recording of Solo Horn Work Released
Summit Records has released a new CD titled COURAGE! that features virtuoso horn player Valerie Whitney. Included the program of nine works is my for solo horn titled Reflections on a Southern Hymn. Only one piece out of the nine works on the diverse program uses piano to accompany the horn. Valerie says that my piece was one of the first she bought for her library after beginning to play the horn at age 10. She has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Chicago Lyric Opera, Milwaukee Symphony and Florida Symphony. Valerie now teaches at the University of British Columbia. If you love the horn, you need to get this amazing CD.