January 5: Twelfth Night Festival at Trinity Church: Gala Concert
Music by Britten and Julian Wachner.
Trinity Wall Street, NYC
January 25 & 26: Vermont Symphony: Masterworks Series
Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem.
Flynn Center, Burlington, VT (Jan. 25)
Paramount Theater, Rutland, VT (Jan. 26)
February 8: Albany Symphony: Ravel, Rouse and Wagner
Ravel’s classic Bolero along with Rouse’s Trombone Concerto and
Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde.
Palace Theater, Albany
February 9: Albany Symphony: Raiders of the Lost Symphony
This show for children features the adventures of Michigan Miller
as he discovers the origins of the symphony throughout history,
performing some of the greatest symphonic music from Mozart to Stravinsky.
Palace Theater, Albany
February 14: Twelfth Night
The Belasco Theater, NYC
February 22 & 23: BEGIN. AGAIN with Valerie Green Dance Entropy
A world premiere work by Valerie Green in collaboration with MuSE: Multi-Cultural Sonic Evolution.
A new musical work by Yui Kitamura will accompany the dance, and I’m happy to join my friend
Chihiro Shibayama on percussion, along with violinist R.T. Moeller.
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Sunnyside, Queens
March 1: Springfield Symphony: Bond & Beyond
Classic film music from James Bond films and other Hollywood blockbusters such as
The Pink Panther and Mission: Impossible.
Symphony Hall, Springfield, MA
March 25: Boston University Percussion Ensemble
Under the direction of my friend and old schoolmate Sam Solomon,
BU Percussion includes my Perception Piece on their next show.
I’m thrilled, thanks Sam!
CFA Concert Hall, Boston University, MA
March 28: Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace
A rare performance of this chamber opera, part of Benjamin Britten’s “church parable” series.
The Church of the Transfiguration, NYC
April 3, 5, 6, 9, 10: The Bridges of Madison County
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, NYC
April 5: Rug Concerts
Diller-Quaile School of Music, NYC
April 11: Ensemble ACJW plays Schubert and Crumb
Schubert’s famous Piano Quintet in A, “Trout” is paired with George Crumb’s masterful
and idiosyncratic Music for a Summer Evening, scored for two amplified pianos and two percussionists.
This epic of avant-garde chamber music weaves an astonishing number of musical, dramatic
and spiritual elements into an openhearted and uncompromisingly beautiful whole.
April 24 & 25: Decoda recording session with Trinity Choir
Years ago, I workshopped Paola Prestini’s Oceanic Verses at Bard College.
Now it is a fully realized work for chorus, soloists and ensemble.
Governors Island, NYC
April 26 & 29: Bullets Over Broadway
St. James Theatre, NYC
May 3: Springfield Symphony Orchestra: 70th Anniversary Concert
Honored to take part in the final concert of SSO’s 2013-2014 season,
which is also their 70th anniversary celebration.
Music of William Schuman, Bernstein and Rachmaninoff.
Symphony Hall, Springfield, MA
May 4: Bullets Over Broadway
St. James Theatre, NYC
May 7: Bedford Chamber Concerts
Tony Newman’s Symphony no. 2, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3 with Andrew Feldbau,
and Mozart’s Symphony no. 35 “Haffner”.
St. Matthews Church, Bedford, NY
May 13: Decoda at Princeton Sound Kitchen
Decoda performs new works by the composition students of Princeton University with
conductor Jim Baker.
Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall, Princeton University, NJ
May 17, 2pm: Bullets Over Broadway
St. James Theatre, NYC
May 17: Hudson Chorale
Haydn’s Mass in D minor and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem.
Irvington, NY
May 18: The Bridges of Madison County
Schoenfeld Theatre, NYC
May 24: Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
Copland’s Appalachian Spring paired with Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique.
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH
May 25, 3pm: Bullets Over Broadway
St. James Theatre, NYC
June 6: Music for Royal Occasions
Choral masterworks by Henry Purcell, including Come Ye Sons of Art.
The Church of the Transfiguration, NYC
June 5, 8, 29 & 30: Bullets Over Broadway
St. James Theatre, NYC
July 6-28: Crested Butte Music Festival
Verdi’s Rigoletto, Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Stravinsky’s The Firebird and much more.
Crested Butte, CO
August 2: Springfield Symphony at Berkshire Choral Festival
The final performance of this summers festival features Elgar’s
masterpiece for chorus and orchestra, The Dream of Gerontius.
Jackman L. Stewart Center, Sheffield, MA
August 5 & 6: Bullets Over Broadway
St. James Theatre, NYC
August 8 & 9: Noli Me Tangere: The Opera
Noli Me Tangere, composed by Felipe De Leon and considered to be
the first Filipino opera composed in the Western operatic style,
is based on a novel of the same title by the Philippine nationalist Dr. José Rizal.
Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
September 14: The Pillar, an opera-in-progress by Luna Pearl Woolf
Based on the book, The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, by Diana B. Henriques,
this workshop will feature a reading of the libretto and a performance of excerpts from the opera.
The orchestra is full of my closest NYC music friends, and will be led by Julian Wachner.
Opera America Center Recital Hall, NYC
September 27: Springfield Symphony Orchestra: Opening Night Gala
A powerhouse program for SSO’s 2014-2015 season opener:
Ravel’s Bolero, Debussy’s La Mer, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
A dream concert for percussionists, and I’ll be playing alongside my friends,
Jeff Irving and Nic Cannizzaro.
Symphony Hall, Springfield, MA
October 18: Rug Concerts
Diller-Quaile School of Music, NYC
October 23-25: White Witch: A Monodrama for Contralto and Percussion
A world premiere performance featuring Christina Ascher under the direction of
director/choreographer Lynn Neuman. An evocative psycho-voodoo horror story
from Jamaica, told in words and music by librettist Joan Ross Sorkin and composer Brian Schober.
Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, NYC
November 1: Rug Concerts
Diller-Quaile School of Music, NYC
November 8, 9: Cantori NY: The Jazzman, His Wife, and the Persian Poet
A world premiere by Dutch composer Jacques Bank for chamber choir, instruments and narrator.
Also, music from Tom Nazziola, Holst and Palestrina.
Park Avenue Christian Church, NYC (Nov. 8)
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, NYC (Nov. 9)
November 23: Albany Symphony: Children’s Concert
Joining the ASO on drumset for a selection of American music from
Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, Ives and more.
Palace Theater, Albany, NY
December 5, 6: Deviant Septet at UB Center for 21st Century Music
My first appearance as a new member of the Deviant Septet!
We will perform Stravinsky’s immortal Histoire du Soldat along with Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Catch and Release,
written for the same instrumental grouping. Also reading the compositions of University of Buffalo students.
Lippes Concert Hall, University of Buffalo, NY
December 10: Bedford Chamber Ensemble
A wonderful baroque program, with Handel’s 2nd Suite from Water Music, Music for Royal Fireworks,
and Corelli’s Christmas Concerto.
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Bedford, NY
December 11, 14: Little Opera Theater of NY presents: Slow Dark & Markheim
Two operas by Carlisle Floyd performed in new chamber arrangements by Ray Lustig and Inessa Zaretsky.
59E59 Theaters, NYC