Orchestral Music

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My Double Concerto (2008) was written for Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson. This is a live recording conducted by Sarah Hicks in Rutland Vermont.

The piece is in three movements with solo interludes. Each movement is meant to reflect a different aspect of Love--from the lustful love of the first movement, to the yearning “courtly love” of the second, to the love of humanity of the third. The interludes further describe the love story of the preceding movements.

1. Double Concerto I.mp3
Double Concerto Interlude I.mp3
Double Concerto II.mp3
4. Double Concerto Interlude II.mp3
5. Double Concerto III.mp3

Program notes: Double Concerto prog notes.doc.

Check out my Hannukah Cantata at Instant Encore.

My Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2004) was written for the first part of my “Music Alive!” residency with the Vermont Symphony with conductor Jaime Laredo. “Music Alive!” is a program created by “Meet The Composer” to fund residencies with orchestras all over the US. I have since received a residency extension with MTC for another three years with the VSO. It’s a wonderful orchestra.

The piece leads on a journey directly inspired by the myth of Orpheus (though that doesn’t need to be recognized to listen to the music). I wrote a very extensive blog as a part of the residency detailing my own work on the piece from the beginning of its writing to the performance. You can read that through the VSO website here. Apparently, I’m heavy on the exclamation points...

The Concerto was written for Margo Tatgenhorst Drakos and Jaime Laredo for the VSO’s Seventieth Anniversary concert at the Flynn Center in Burlington. Duration: ca. 24 minutes

1. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra: Descent
2. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra: “Lura Agonia”
3. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra: Caccia

Concertino (2005)–I wrote this short work for Jaime Laredo and the VSO to tour with for their “Made in Vermont” annual barnstorm around the state (with a little New Hampshire thrown in). Jaime and the orchestra performed the piece ten times in two weeks (I conducted). It was ridiculously fun.

The work is a three-movement “neo-Baroque” piece (and on the request of the commission, the orchestra is looking for music to speak to a wide range of audiences for the tour). I’m including the second “slow movement” entitled “Recitative-Aria.”

Concertino mvt II: “Recitative-Aria”

Radiance (2003) was commissioned by the Richmond Symphony and premiered by oboist Michael Lisicky. It is for oboe with string orchestra accompaniment and was meant to be played with a short concerto (like the Martinu). It was last performed in Carnegie Hall and was particularly admired by Trey Anastasio from Phish. This is the closest I’ll get to being a rock star.

The piece was inspired by long, glowing, “radiant” nights at the Yaddo artist colony in the height of a summer residency there. Duration: ca. 8 minutes

Radiance