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July 27th, 2010
A small manifestation of the Sheep Island Ensemble, consisting of Nacole Palmer, Bénédicte Jourdois, and myself, performed for a most receptive and warm audience in Jonesport, Maine, way downeast.
It was a moving experience to perform this rich music for people who rarely experience classical music performed live, and we made lots of friends. Special thanks to James and Tay Cooper, who hosted us while we were up there.
 Doppelgangers
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July 24th, 2010
A friend sent me this link-I was featured on a PRI segment on Mahler’s 150th Birthday celebration.
Check out ca. 1:45 into the segment…
Listen
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May 27th, 2010
I was featured on the most recent Trinity webcast, and wanted to share the link with you all. It’s a nice six-minute video that has footage of me singing, conducting, teaching, and composing, and is very well done by the great video staff at Trinity.
Enjoy!
Watch the link here.
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April 25th, 2010
The Trinity Choir performed Nunc Per Speculum in Aenigmate on their final concert of the season, entitled “New (York) Music,” on May 17th. It can be viewed somehow online, but the link went bad. Will research that.
It was a fantastic performance and the entire concert is worth watching, with works by Judd Greenstein, Avery Griffin, Caleb Burhans, Lisa Bielawa, Charles Wuorinen, John Zorn, George Perle, Johannes Somary and Calvin Hampton.
The piece was premiered in January, 2009, and has been fully revised for this concert. It features three soloists-soprano, alto, tenor, each declaiming challenging prophetic texts, centered around Matthew 27, which quotes Jesus as saying, “Do not think that I came on earth to bring peace. I came not to bring peace, but a sword.” The work is an exploration of that text and a reflection on the prophetic tradition through I Corinthians, and is dedicated to the Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street.
 A strong intersection!
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December 16th, 2009
Last Sunday and Monday I sang in Trinity Wall Street’s Messiah. Of the many Messiah’s I’ve sung, this was one of the most beautifully expressed, shaped, and felt. Robert Mealy inspired a string sound that was sumptuous, strong, and filled with pathos, my soloist colleagues gave powerful performances, and I was very moved to be led by Jane Glover, who I hold in the highest regard.
The performance is available on Trinity’s website, and I highly recommend it to you.
Watch and hear it here-look up “Messiah 12.14.2009″
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December 6th, 2009
Nacole Palmer, one of my great colleagues, presented two of the Moby Dick songs in recital with Bénédicte Jourdois at the Tenri Cultural Institute. These two songs-Delight and Amours in the Deep make a healthy mini-cycle, and are an amuse-bouche for the hour-long project which is underway and which will be premiered in the Fall of 2011.
Nacole Palmer and Benedicte Jourdois
in concert
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
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November 19th, 2009
Drew Minter’s ensemble at Vassar, the Vassar College Madrigal Singers, will perform my challenging a cappella work A Riveder Le Stelle, with a text from Dante’s Inferno, this Sunday the 22nd of November at 3pm. The concert is thankfully broadcast live on the internet, so you can watch it from anywhere in the world! I’m very honored and excited to be working with Drew and his singers, and look forward to my first virtual performance.
Watch it here
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September 30th, 2009
Isabelle Demers, the incredible organist for whom I’m writing a piece that she’ll premiere summer of 2010, has recently been featured on Fox News. I almost didn’t want to watch it, but it’s nicely done, and has some great quotes from her. I’m most surprised that they would run a news story that’s so positive and doesn’t involve scandal, and there’s a revealing comment by the anchorwoman at the end, putting her job in perspective. (They just want to report good stories, too, and this time, Jason got the lucky straw.)
Watch here
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June 22nd, 2009
GOOD NEWS: I was just alerted to the fact that the Celebratory Inaugural Concert is now on iTunes. So if that is your prefered method of downloading music, you are in luck! No link for that-just search for the Sheep Island Ensemble, and you’ll find it rather easily.
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June 22nd, 2009
Click here to JOIN…
It’s easy to do, you can change your preferences at any time, and the ensemble will send out a maximum of one email a month, always with pretty pictures and something nice to read. It’s our way of staying in touch, and through modern technology, it’s all very pretty.
Stay tuned for the 2009-2010 season!
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