More Mass to Follow

04/23/2013

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So it seems Massachusetts has more in store for me as I will be spending 3 weeks, starting mid July, making music and attending classes at Mass MOCA as part of the Bang on a Can Summer Festival! I am incredibly grateful for being selected and I'm ready to jam out and party down.

But before then we will have the next installment of Friendly Music here at the Fox Hole. 4 local composers will be featured and this time I'm sharing the wealth and not performing on every single piece! 

We will be featuring a good amount of bass with 3 works by Meredith Gilna, 2 for solo bass and the return of Fight/Flight. If you were around last year you heard Fight/Flight by a quartet of untrained voices, but now you get to hear the instrumental interpretation. 

I am continuing my quest of works for saxophone and strings with a return to the program of Matt Primm's music, Obsessions 2 which we have been toting around a bit this year and can be heard on his website. And we're work shopping a fabulous new quintet by Jesse Alexander Brown. 

And lastly, but certainly not least, a work for indeterminate ensemble and 3 narrators by my neighbor James Nicholson. 
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MArch in Mass

03/07/2013

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It seems this month is a month of Massachusetts. In the 3 ½ years I’ve lived in CT I had been there twice and now 4 performances in a month. This weekend I’ll be playing in Wilbraham at the Benefit for the Community Survival Center at 7:30 at Wilbraham & Monson Academy Chapel 423 Main Street Wilbraham, MA. I’ll be playing for the first time as an orchestral musician accompanying a choir. The following weekend will be the NASA conference at which I will play a couple of Matt Primm’s pieces with Rebekah Butler (violin), Juliet Dawson (viola), and Tristen Kasten-Krause (bass).

I will be making my return to performing in CT on Palm Sunday (3/24) with a concert entitled “The Bare Minimum” on the continuing Universalist music series (433 Fern St, West Hartford) at 5PM. The program will feature minimalist/post minimalist style music and an assortment of instruments and players. I hope to see many of you there!

Plans are gearing up for the next house concert, at the end of May. It will feature mostly music of Meredith Gilna and include works of some other fantastic local composers as well. Be on the lookout for more information soon!

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Stay Warm

02/09/2013

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As I walked around in Hartford today the snow reached the top of my legs, and I am a tall girl. I hope everyone is staying safe and relaxing in the forced vacation time. Due to my wish for the safety of all, and my inability to move my car (the street it's on is not yet plowed), my 2/10 recital in Wilbraham, MA is postponed to Saturday 2/23 at 4PM, same time same place. I hope many of you can still attend.  That's all for now!
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A belated happy 2013 and to all a good night!

01/16/2013

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The new year seems to hold promise for figuring out this post school existence.  We have premieres of new works by T.L. Hine, Jesse Alexander Brown, Jason Schwartz, and others to look forward to. And some wonderful continued performances of past pieces written by my wonderful friends. 


On the teaching front I joined Middlesex music academy about a month ago and look forward to getting to know Middletown, it seems like a great city. My East Hartford students will be giving a recital in a couple weeks and I'm very proud and excited for all of them. The adult student quartet is also hoping to play a concert somewhere outside of the store sometime this year! 


And of course, I have many plans up my sleeves for concerts this year. There will be another house concert, featuring many of Meredith Gilna's works. And I'm hoping to set up a saxophone and strings concert in a park or 2 when the weather gets more lovely out. 
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Salut mes Chers!

12/22/2012

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I've been meaning to get myself online for quite some time now. In fact, I've owned my domain name for about 4 years now. The best excuse of all, I would have to say, was grad school. So now that it's over I teach all afternoon/evening but don't have to go to work before 2:30 on schooldays, which leaves lots of morning time for random projects. So far I have read 13 books, taken up cooking again, cleaned my room (finally), started arranging pop tunes for students, and stopped biting my nails.


So here I am, please bear with me as I get to know the ropes of managing a site. Eventually there might even be recordings and current pictures, who knows what's next. But I think I'm done with the 6 month laze that followed my completion of my schooling, possibly for good. So stay tuned, because I'm bound to do something interesting every once in a while.
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