CCM Composition Department

10/22/2024

Hello Friends!
Please spread the word about the Vienna Contemporary Composers Festival where I am honored to be part of the teaching team. More details here, please encourage young composers to apply!
https://www.viennaccfestival.com

VCCF is a music festival geared towards individuals who are pursuing the craft of composition and receiving professional performances of their works, attending masterclasses, and immersing themselves in the compositional world of Vienna, Austria and all that it has to offer.

07/01/2024

Nice to wake up to!

12/03/2023

So proud of my student Kevin Li for winning the The American Prize: celebrating American excellence in the arts Bravo Kevin!!!
http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2023/11/national-winners-composers-covid.html?m=1

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David Volosin Katz, founder and chief judge, is honored to anno...

10/17/2022

VERY happy to announce the UK premiere of Mist Waves by the brilliant Madeleine Mitchell!

Friday 21 October 2022, 8pmTickets £20 (Under 27s FREE)

08/17/2022

Very nice new review of my latest disc CLOUD OSSUARY:
“On hearing these two works, I felt inspired and hopeful for the future of classical music, as they are unpretentious and a great example of what contemporary music can be.”

VIDEO PODCAST: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors in this eighty-minute February 2021 video.

03/28/2022

Many thanks to ASCAP placing my work TREMOR on its Spotify playlist (among a host of ASCAP luminaries!) Grateful and excited!

ASCAP New Music Friday · Playlist · 27 songs · 841 likes

10/15/2021

Great news just in! My opera BACKWARDS FROM WINTER is winner of The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, 2021, in the professional composer division.

Thank you to the American Prize and heartfelt thanks also to my partner in this work librettist Juanita Rockwell and to the Center for Contemporary Opera, Jim Schaeffer and Foundation IHOS Amsterdam, Konstantin Koukias and the Dark M**o Festival for their world premier and Australian premier seasons in separate productions, the New York production directed by Jennifer Williams and the Australian season directed by Constantine Koukias.

Huge thanks to the amazing performers who collaborated with me as well: Jeffrey Krieger, electric cello and Anke Briegel, soprano (New York) and Judith Weusten, soprano and Antonis Pratsinakis, electric cello (Australia).

Massive thanks also to my audio engineers Howie Kenty (New York) and Greg Gurr (Australia). The live recording was mastered by the ever-amazing Silas Brown.

Thanks to all for this tremendous honor!