The first thing was an announcement of an article that I appeared in: There’s a new feature in the classical guitar magazine Soundboard this month (Volume 33, 2007). The magazine is published by the Guitar [...]
Juventas, a young new music ensemble based in Boston, is once again performing one of my pieces. This group of talented performers and composers have been very good to me and my music, having performed [...]
Many of you who know me well well know that I am a huge nerd. One of the nerdy things I love, and have always loved is video games. Even as a kid, I would [...]
This is genius...I would totally go see this. Why is it that the one scene where Khan puts the slug things in their ears made the biggest impact on everyone who saw it?
I just did an interview in Second Live, on the Music Academy OnLive show. You can download it as a podcast on iTunes - just search for "SLCN.TV - Music Academy", or see it at [...]
Here's an interesting commentary on the state of classical music today. It's a video of an experiment by one of the most famous classical violinists in the world, Joshua Bell, where he plays the Bach [...]
A few weeks ago, I traveled back up to Bloomington, Indiana to take my final Doctoral oral exam. This is the next-to-last step in completing my DM, in which I can use to teach music [...]
A while ago, a friend of mine, conductor Kelly Corcoran, posted a blog on her feelings on the orchestra in the 21st century, and I posted a response to that blog. I just re-read it, [...]
I was thinking the other day – why do we write music? Is it to impress a small group of people with our compositional skill – or is it to move people on an emotional [...]
I have three new CDs available from Lulu.com! The first is The Sweet New Style. This is a general compilation of some of my best work to date.The second is Guitar Works and the third [...]