Front Page News

March 6, 2009 3 comments

The UW Lit­tle Big Band had our first con­cert of the semes­ter last night. Appar­ently there was a pho­tog­ra­pher there from The Daily Car­di­nal (one of our two stu­dent papers), because we made the front page today:

The photo was even taken dur­ing one of my solos! There wasn’t a story attached, and the pic doesn’t seem to be online any­where. But, The Car­di­nal pub­lishes a PDF ver­sion of their paper. I grabbed today’s copy (since there doesn’t seem to be an archive) — you can find it here.

DMA Chamber Recital Poster

February 17, 2008 1 comment

Here’s the poster I whipped up for my upcom­ing cham­ber recital. I’ll be play­ing Mozart’s Sonata K. 292 for bas­soon and cello, Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachi­anas Brasilieras No. 6 for flute and bas­soon, Fran­cis Poulenc’s Sonata for clar­inet and bas­soon, Jean Françaix’s Trio for oboe, bas­soon, and piano, and György Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for wood­wind quin­tet. The recital is March 1st, and I’m work­ing with Chelle Casareale, Dave Cecil, Vince Fuh, Les­ley Hughes, Ching-Chieh Hsu, Garry Kling, and Laura Kling. As usual, I’ll post the record­ing as soon as pos­si­ble after the performance.

DMA Recital Poster

November 1, 2007 1 comment

I’m a lit­tle later than usual with this, but here’s the poster for my upcom­ing recital. I’ll be play­ing works cov­er­ing large styl­is­tic and chrono­log­i­cal ranges: Fan­ta­sia No. 10 by Bar­tolomeo de Selma y Salaverde, Andante and Hun­gar­ian Rondo by Carl Maria von Weber, Sonatine by Alexan­dre Tans­man, Hopi by Philippe Her­sant, and Suite Argentina Para Jugar con Andrea by Jorge Mock­ert. As usual, I’ll post the record­ing as soon as pos­si­ble after the performance.

Click for a larger version

Two Contras

February 19, 2007 Reply
Thirty-two feet of fun

Yes­ter­day was our ridicu­lous con­tra­bas­soon duo recital. It was a lot of fun, and I’m pretty pleased with how it went. Garry was nice enough to haul in his whole record­ing rig and record the recital, so I should even­tu­ally (pend­ing his free time and mine) have a good record­ing to post here. We actu­ally had a pretty good turnout — I guess hav­ing a gim­mick helps with that. In any case, I’m no longer in hard­core recital prep mode, so I should finally be able to sort through my Brazil pic­tures and post them some­time this week.

Two Contras Poster

February 7, 2007 1 comment

Here’s the poster I cre­ated for my upcom­ing con­tra­bas­soon duo recital. It’s going to be com­pletely ridicu­lous. We’re play­ing a num­ber of things that were arranged for bas­soon duos or trios: some arias from The Bar­ber of Seville and some excerpts from Der Freis­chütz (with the help of our friend Katie Koralesky on dou­ble bass). We’re also play­ing a piece by Daniel Dorff called Sonata D’Amore, which was actu­ally writ­ten for two con­tra­bas­soons. Each of us will play a solo piece with piano, as well. I’ll post record­ings after the recital, for your lis­ten­ing plea­sure (assum­ing you have a good sub­woofer). Click the image for a larger ver­sion of the poster.

Recital Posters

March 24, 2006 2 comments

I’ve put up posters for my upcom­ing recital, both around the music build­ing and right here. My recital is Sat­ur­day April 1st at 8pm in FSU’s Dohnanyi Recital Hall. I’ll be play­ing a sonata by Devi­enne, Villa-Lobos’s Ciranda Das Sete Notas, a Tele­mann sonata on baroque bas­soon, and the Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Con­certo, which includes per­cus­sion. If you’re in Tal­la­has­see, you should come. I’ll most likely post record­ings after the recital as well.