Yo party people. I’m working on a new piece with big man Osvaldo Golijov and Accordiopimp Michael Ward-Bergemann. We’re doing a premeir at the opening day concert of their new Green Space, which is an invite only thing, but you can check it out on-air on April 29th at 2pm. Jon Schaefer’s program SoundCheck will [...]
I am absolutely thrilled to have a chance to work with the fabbo Olga Bell (myspace here) for a commission from Carnegie Hall on their “Professional Training Workshops” series. We will be workshopping some stuff together in September in NYC, October at the always beautiful Bard College and then in May we’ll head down to [...]
An update on the projects I’m working on at the moment… Animas Perdidas is this amazing documentary I’m writing music for, written by a friend of mine, Monika Navarro. (The song “Grand and Sand” in the SoundCloud player is a sketch I’ve put together for the film.) Anyway, this film is starting to really come [...]
So I’m headed to Reno. Off to play some jams with David Krakauer and his Klezmer Madness. Cannot wait. The last time I played with them in North Carolina was pretty much insane. These guys rip and don’t stop until everyone in the place is sweaty because they are throwing down in their seats. That’s [...]
So I’m back in Boston and it’s still too cold to ride a bike without gloves on. And what am I doing? Lots of little work, catching up on tax stuff, blah blah blah. In a couple weeks I head to London to perform Ainadamar at the Barbican. After that I’m headed to New York [...]
Over the past week and a half, I have been doing a bunch of seminars in Chicago Public Schools. One of the High School seminars I did went really well and we had a representative of Chicago Public radio with us. Catalina Maria Johnson was the reporter, and she recorded the whole thing and did [...]
I’ll be in Chicago as of the 30th of January, to do a few really cool things. I’m going to be performing Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar again, which is always fun. This time it’s with the Chicago Symphony and a few of the old standby’s in the original cast. I’m also going to be doing some [...]