ACM brings the Sound of Silent Film Festival to New York City on May 31st and June 1st and my piece Reciprocity Failure will be included.  Because it’s awesome.  Check it out!

My score for the short film Reciprocity Failure by Ben Westlake will be performed by Access Contemporary Music at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago as part of their 19th annual Sound of Silent Film Festival on April 4th.  Woot!

A work I wrote inspired by Studs Terkel’s magnum opus Working will be premiered on March 29th at Symphony Space in Manhattan by the stellar Black Oak Ensemble.  The piece is a string trio inspired by the many first-person accounts in Studs’ great book which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

My brand spanking new piece Dream Ritual for string trio will be premiered on March 17 as part of Composers Concordance’s event Dances and Stories.

The work will be performed with live dance from Kimani Fowlin and Cleo Mack.

I wrote a new score for the fascinating film by Imelda O’Reilly Bricks, Beds and Sheepheads and it will be performed live with the film at Westbeth Artists Housing in NYC on March 2nd.

More info here.

I’m hosting a special version of ACM’s Concept Lab program at Chamber Music America’s national conference this year. Three lucky composers will work with the Attacca Quartet to workshop their pieces in real time in front of an audience.

Friday, January 19 at 11:30 AM.

My first performances of the year will be on January 13 and 14 when my new work Three Kings gets premiered by the Steps Trio at the MC Gallery in Manhattan and then again the next night as part of a live taping of the podcast Composers With Drinks Listening to Music at Westbeth.  The year is off to a great start!

Last month I finished a new piece commissioned from Random Access Music for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, electric guitar and piano and it will be performed twice in December.  The first concert is December 2nd at 3:00 at the Secret Theater in Queens and the second is December 3rd at 5:00 PM at the famed Martha Graham Dance Studio in Manhattan.

A song I wrote as part of a cycle called Songs of Love and Transience will be performed as part of Composers Concordance’s event Art of the Art Song at Drom in Manhattan on November 28.

The poetry is by the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.

My new piece for saxophone, electric guitar and piano On the Verge will be premiered by Todd Rewoldt, Gene Pritsker and Jai Jeffries on November 18 at a concert at Steel Wig in Manhattan.