Welcome to my website! There's plenty of information about me, as well as audio tracks, videos, and links. I hope that you'll leave a message in my Guest Book, sign up for e-mail notification of upcoming appearances, and check out the calendar .If you're a composer, performer (classical, singer/songwriter, folk or rock artist, dancer, poet), or presenter looking for a collaborator, I'd especially love to hear from you! I enjoy working in a wide variety of genres and partnering with artistically like-minded individuals!
NEWS
So pleased that my first solo CD, Solitaire, is now in production and on-track for release at my July 28 Old Westbury Gardens concert!! For now, you can view the package and CD artwork here.
Got great news recently: My summer Sundays concert series at Old Westbury Gardens on Long island (NY) is going to be back under the venerable West Porch Beech Tree this summer - just in time for my 10th season in residence there! The opening concert - CROSS ISLAND (my duo with pianist Elinor Abrams Zayas), with clarinetist Sandy Tepper - will be July 7. Concert 2 on July 14 will be Cambiata flute and cello duo (with Pamela Sklar), with guest guitarist Mark Macarron (who was part of the first concert a decade ago); concert 3 on July 21 is a return appearance by the folk duo HUNGRYTOWN - a long-time Gardens favorite; concert 4, July 28, will be my first-ever solo concert and the release concert for my new solo CD, Solitaire, and will include several works written for me as part of a collaboration with Composer's Voice; and August 4 will be the final concert - a CROSS ISLAND reprise, this time with violinist Yeou-Cheng Ma. Watch this site (and especially my calendar) for details!
The collaboration with Composer's Voice will be an ongoing theme this season, with works from previous Composer's Voice collaborations on both CROSS ISLAND concerts and a work by Composer's Voice Artistic Director Douglas DaSilva on the July 14 concert, as well. if you're not familiar with them, check them out!
And speaking of Composer's Voice: Check out Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Waltzes [scroll down to view the videos]- 15 World Premier 1-minute waltzes written for CROSS ISLAND and clarinetist Thomas Piercy, performed April 13 ,2013 at the Plainview-Old Westbury Library on our Town of Oyster Bay Distinguished Artist Series. Thanks to Composer's Voice for making this possible, to the composers for their wonderful music, and to Douglas DaSilva for prepping the video for viewing. If you want to hear these works live, we'll be reprising them, with clarinetist Sandy Tepper, on the September 29 Composer's Voice concert -see our calendar for details.
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Performances (for details on all, see my calendar)
Watch here for details of my upcoming series at Old Westbury Gardens.
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Check out these videos of my performance of World Premieres of 15 solo cello works by composers age 16 and under at the 2nd Annual Composer's Voice Children's Month concert, September 30, 2012, at Jan Hus Church, New York, NY (videos by the series's artistic director, Douglas Da Silva)
Banner photo credit: Tiffany Thomas, Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, NY,
September, 2011.