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Couch Surfers!
Ongoing – I am writing music for a very different kind of project: the webseries Couch Surfers! Kind of a little bit of everything (even a Wagnerian forest moment in one episode) but mostly a lot of punk rock surf with guitar help from my friend Carleton Ingram. www.couchsurferstv.com
Two Events in DC on one day!
April 27 – Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek premiered Latte, an art song with lyrics by Lisa Pegram, at Georgetown University’s Davis Performing Arts Center. On the same day, Maryland percussionist Tim McKay premiered my new percussion piece Tres Leches at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD. It was amazing to have two totally different premieres of totally [...]
March 24, 2012
The Siena College Chorus and Musicians of Ma’alwyck premiered new Mass for the New Jerusalem for chorus and string quartet at the Chapel at Carondelet Hospitality Center in Loudonville, NY under the direction of Tim Reno. Thanks to all the musicians for their excellent performance!
Alchemy
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Featured Recording
Tim McKay, Danny Villanueva
percussion
Alchemy is a single-movement work for two percussionists that explores the relationships of musical elements that are dissimilar on the surface. Each player uses an array of nonpitched percussion instruments made from wood, metal, and membrane as well as a single, pitched instrument. Alchemy traces the transformation of the physical materials involved – like its medieval namesake – as well as the relationships between pitched and non-pitched music, differing rhythmic ideas, and the performers themselves.
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