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Some Stuff I’ve been up to:
7/31/10
Final show of Euripides’ “Medea,” which I wrote music for.
7/26/10
Just got back from a two week music adventure in Silver Bay, NY. So relaxing and beautiful is Lake George.
7/1/10
PUBLIQuartet concert at 5c in the East Village. We packed the house!
6/29/10
PUBLIQuartet concert in the Gardens in the East Village. Absolutely beautiful!
6/27/10
Played in a week long production of Rigoletto with Zach Kampler and the Buffalo Opera Company.
6/4/10
Held my very first studio recital!
5/23/10
Concluded the 2nd year of NYS chamber music with another chamber music party.
5/5/10
Performed in the Mid-day Music Series at St. Paul’s on the Green in Norwalk, CT. Works by Joan Tower, myself, Robert Schumann, and Fritz Kreisler.
5/2/10
World Premier of my quartet for four violas called “Broken Lines” at the New York Viola Society Concert. Nora Krohn, Liyuan Liu, Brian Lindgren, and myself performing. Christ and St. Stephen’s at 122 W 69th Street.
1/16/09
Made it onto the New Haven Symphony’s sublist.
1/8/10
Played death metal, funk, an Elvis Tune, tango and more in Tom Swafford’s group, String Power, at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO.
12/19/09
The chamber groups I coach with Norwalk Youth Symphony perform in their first recital of the year.
12/15/09
Performed with Group Therapy and Sydney Skybetter and Associates at the black box in NYU’s Tisch School.
10/28/09
Played in Numinous ensemble with Joe Phillips. Performed his piece “Vipassana” at the Brooklyn Lyceum.
10/6/09
Started shooting with Sex and the City 2. Orchestra scene during wedding.
9/25/09
Returned early from cruise gig (see blog for info)
8/20/09
Leave for Holland America Cruise line gig
8/15/09
Collaboration concert with Sydney Skybetter Dance company and Group Therapy Ensemble at the Tisch School at NYU.
8/3/09
Solo recital in Williamstown, MA. Vaughan Williams, Bach, Bruch
8/1/09
Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra in Kahtona, NY.
6/19/09
Played chamber music in the Adirondacks. Silver Bay on Lake George. Beautiful.
6/1/09
Made assistant principal viola of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra
5/27/09
My very own solo viola recital. Milhaud, Burhans, and Bruch. It’s good to play out.
5/19/09
Jammed out with Jon Sandler at Arlene’s Grocery.
5/18/09
Giant studio recital for Norwalk Youth Symphony’s Lessons in the Schools program. They all did so well!
5/11/09
Performed Motown gig called “Winds of Change” with Lee Summers and Timothy Graphenreed on piano at the Triad Theater.
4/27/09
Another string quartet concert at Fat Cat!
4/25/09
Norwalk Youth Symphony Chamber Music party! Drinks, food, the kids playing chamber music for the parents and NYS directors, it went off with out a hitch. Chamber music at NYS will be up and running next year too.
4/6/09
Played an awesome gig at the Fat Cat in the village. Classical string quartets at a billiards club, how cool!
3/27/09
Gigged with Jon Sandler, singer/songwriter, at the Triad Theater in NY
2/28/09
Gigged with Gerald Goode, singer/songwriter, at Two Boots in Bridgeport, CT
2/14/09
Performed first contract concert with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra
1/18/09
Performed with Bronx Opera Company
12/13/08
First local professional orchestra concert. Norwalk Symphony Orchestra plays Handel’s Messiah…the whole thing my friends, the whole thing…Hey, but it was fun!
12/12/08
I performed solo Bach in a bookstore in Ridgefield, CT - Books on the Common. Odd at first playing in a store while people stroll the isles for holiday book gifts but people seemed to like it. I think I will make a hobby out of performing in unusual venues; now no where is safe from classical music!
11/20/08
Back in good old Rochester, where it decided to start its annual i’m-going-to-snow-everyday-until-everyone-is-completely-sick-of-the-cold-and-depressed. But I played a gig with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. I joined the sub-list last October (’07) but didn’t get called until now… As I’ve said before somewhere, Bartok simply kicks ass, as we rocked the Concerto for Orchestra. My old orchestra rep prof was sitting principal; nice to actually play in the same section as her.
10/31/08
Orchestra of the Bronx concert at Lehman College. If only they would let me keep the ghoul mask that I’ve been wearing the rest of the day on during the performance. Hmm, maybe they will…
10/11/08
Ridgefield Middle School in CT commissioned me to write a chamber orchestra
piece for them to be premiered in the spring concert. The catch is I get to
put in a solo viola part, and I will be the soloist.
10/4/08
Subbed with Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra. Fun concert.
9/21/08
Made section viola of Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Go me!
8/1/08
Just finished Pacific Music Festival in Japan and am getting back today to
NY, quite bleary-eyed, after a 14 hour flight. I suppose there are longer
flights.
6/28/08
Today I leave for the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. Sugoi! Doki doki
waku waku!
6/15/08
My jazz-fusion group, NeoCollage, performs in the Rochester International
Jazz Festival on the Jazz Street Stage right on Gibbs Street. What a
bad-ass gig, so much fun.
5/18/08
I graduate from the Eastman School of Music with a Bachelor’s in Music
Performance for viola. I graduate with honors and the Robert L. Oppelt
Viola Prize.
