2022 Grammy Nomination for “The Arching Path”
Unbelievably thrilled to be nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY for Best Classical Compendium for The Arching Path, released this past May on In a Circle Records. This will be my second, since the nomination of my 2019 album, The Pieces That Fall to Earth. The team of people involved—the intrepid performers, producer Mike Tierney—were so…
Read MorePodcast: Liminal Highway on Soundworlds
This is such a unique project! Thrilled to have had my work adapted as a podcast by Patrick Eakin Young as part of Soundworlds. Beautiful words by my collaborator Stephanie Fleischmann and flooting by Tim Munro. Liminal Highway was originally commissioned by Miller Theatre at Columbia University and New Music USA. The podcast episode is…
Read MoreThe year ahead
Hello friends, I hope you have weathered the recent storms (literal and emotional) and past year. There’s a lot of exciting projects I’m looking forward to sharing with you this year and releasing all these “quarantine” compositions that are eager to escape my apartment. A few of my new works include two cello works: Exhalation…
Read MoreNew York Times Profile and new “Hoyt” video
So thrilled to share this profile done by Seth Colter Walls of the New York Times. He really gets my work and it’s reviewed in a very in-depth fashion. And if that ain’t enough good news for one day, Timo Andres has done an amazing new video and performance of Hoyt–Schermerhorn. Check it out!
Read MoreThe Arching Path out now!
Dear Friends, A quick note to say my new album, The Arching Path, is now available everywhere from In a Circle Records. Featuring close collaborators Timo Andres, Lindsay Kesselman, Ian Rosenbaum, and Mingzhe Wang, and produced by Mike Tierney, it’s an electro-acoustic, piano-driven record that features some of my favorite recent chamber pieces. You can buy or stream the record from your favorite outlet here, or…
Read More“A Body, Moving,” digital premiere
Dear Friends, Hope you’re doing well! My new concerto for brass and orchestra, A Body, Moving, will premiere tonight, digitally, via the Cincinnati Symphony website. The piece was performed live a few weeks ago for a small, appreciative audience and featured the amazing talents of trumpeter Robert Sullivan, tubist Chris Olka, and conductor Louis Langrée. It will…
Read MoreNew Album, The Arching Path; and new Brass Concerto
Dear Friends, I’m thrilled to announce two big projects. First, my new album, The Arching Path, is available for pre-order. It will be released on May 21, 2021 by In a Circle Records, and you can preview and pre-order it now via Bandcamp. It features my ongoing collaborators Timo Andres, Ian Rosenbaum, Lindsay Kesselman, and Mingzhe Wang; it has art by Timo,…
Read MoreNew Addresses, New Year
Dear Friends, Hope your year is off to a good start, considering the continued insanity surrounding us. As Brecht wrote: “In the dark times / Will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing / About the dark times.” It is in that spirit that I bring tidings of my life: First, this coming January…
Read MoreNYT “Best of 2020” and “Beaufort Scales” streaming
A few things! I’m so honored that the New York Times has singled the performance of my piece Don’t Look Down as one of the best classical events of 2020. You can view that performance here. And! You can listen to the first movement of a forthcoming collaboration with Lorelei Ensemble and projection artist Hannah…
Read More“Unrelenting” at the Italian Consulate of NY
Over the summer I collaborated with my old friend Francesco Simeti on a animation project called “Unrelenting” that was commissioned by Magazzino Art in Cold Spring, NY. It features three of my pieces, The Insects Became Magnetic, High Windows, and A Natural History of Vacant Lots stitched together. Now it’ll be projected on the side…
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