Memoires Musicales: The Viola

Everything begins somewhere: this site began with a simple, borrowed design; my life in New York City began with an email asking advice from a composer I had only met twice before; and my formal musical training began with a quarter-sized viola. I was nine years old...

Family videos

This week’s video uploads are inspired by the holiday season. The holidays are about family, so these videos feature family – my younger brother, to be precise. My brother Denton gave his senior voice recital at Illinois State University (my alma mater) on...

Musicians Accord reading session: Dec 2008

This morning was another reading session with the Musicians Accord ensemble at CCNY. The group read down a further-revised version of “In the dark pine-wood” (Boy, that’s cropped up a few times lately, hasn’t it?) and a new gymnopdedie that I...