Concert-length performance projects:
Wolfgang von Schweinitz: Plainsound Glissando Modulation
Over the past few years I've been working with Scott Worthington on Wolfgang's epic and sublime concert-length (75-minute) duo for violin and double bass. Exploring a rich and completely unique harmonic language, this piece is quite literally one of my favorite works ever written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH0vpPgf3XM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH0vpPgf3XM
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Mystery Sonatas
These incredible pieces are what made me interested in playing baroque violin in the first place. I've undertaken this massive 2-hour-plus cycle of Biber's sixteen mystical sonatas (14 of them with radical re-tunings of the open strings) from 1675 with Ensemble Sacro-Profanum for performance at the Hammer Museum.
McIntosh: Symmetry Etudes
I worked very closely for four years with Jim Sullivan and Brian Walsh, clarinetists, on the creation of this cycle of eight pieces.
We've performed the pieces so far at the Hammer Museum, the Wulf, LA City College, and Beyond Baroque, and Jim and Brian also performed Etude IV with violinist Mark Menzies at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series on 12/3/13.
Here is a link to the recording of the complete cycle released on Populist Records.
We've performed the pieces so far at the Hammer Museum, the Wulf, LA City College, and Beyond Baroque, and Jim and Brian also performed Etude IV with violinist Mark Menzies at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series on 12/3/13.
Here is a link to the recording of the complete cycle released on Populist Records.
Tom Johnson: correct music
Since working with Tom in San Francisco several years ago at the Other Minds festival, I've had a fascination with his music and have performed quite of a lot of it - leading to a mostly solo CD of his music released on Populist Records which you can find here.
I've presented solo programs devoted entirely to Tom's compositions at the Wulf and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and have also collaborated on quite a few of his chamber works with various musicians.
I've presented solo programs devoted entirely to Tom's compositions at the Wulf and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and have also collaborated on quite a few of his chamber works with various musicians.
Morton Feldman: for John Cage
I first performed this concert-length violin/piano duo with Dante Boon in Amsterdam one day before John Cage's 99th birthday. Morton Feldman is one of my favorite composers and this is probably my favorite piece of his.
We recorded the work at CalArts in 2013 and release is pending on Edition Wandelweiser.
We recorded the work at CalArts in 2013 and release is pending on Edition Wandelweiser.
Luigi Nono: la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
This hour-long work for solo violin and 8-channel pre-recorded sound (manipulated live) from 1989 is the second-to-last composition by the Italian maverick. I've presented it at the Wulf in Los Angeles, with Ben Hackbarth.
I've also performed the last piece that Nono wrote several times (a half-hour violin duo) with my wife, Melinda Rice, and the Formalist Quartet has played his influential Fragmente-Stille: an diotoma many times.
I've also performed the last piece that Nono wrote several times (a half-hour violin duo) with my wife, Melinda Rice, and the Formalist Quartet has played his influential Fragmente-Stille: an diotoma many times.