Why do we understand some music instantly, but other music takes repeated listening to grok? Regardless, I think musical context is critical if we want audiences to keep listening…
Every page of the score to Mahler's 4th is chock full of orchestration master brushstrokes. Most people focus on the sublime slow movement and moments in the orchestral song that is the finale. But two of my favorite places are in the scherzo—and they pierce right through the devil and his fiddle!
Last week New York threw everything at my new trio that it could. Weather reports screamed "Bombogenesis!"—possible cyclone winds. Pics and short video...
Introduction to my piano trio Paleface inspired by the art of Jerry Kearns. Premieres Friday January 5, 2018 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City, performed by the Neave Trio.
Let me know what you think of this short 3 minute video excursion into my chamber sextet Subterranean Dance. Does it make you curious to hear the entire work?
It was a week of blazing intensity working with Sierra Ensemble, an ensemble of terrific San Francisco Bay Area musicians. We were in residence at the beautiful Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire, preparing the ensemble's world premiere of my horn trio that they commissioned from me.
