I know this is coming a bit late, but if you haven’t already please check out the music from my Composition Distinguished Major Recital here. The event occurred on April 25th, 2010. Thanks!
Check out the Virginia Orpheus Musicians, a group of local performers affiliated with the University of Virginia. They’ve had years of experience playing for weddings and other events and they would certainly add that “something special” to your event. I designed the web site, uploaded it a few days ago — it’s the second string
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The bicentennial of Chopin’s birthday lasted from February 22nd until March 1st of this year. Over that span of time — the first date being the D.O.B. on Chopin’s baptism certificate and the second being the D.O.B. that he and his family celebrated — 171 hours of Chopin’s music was performed across Poland, his country
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A couple weeks ago I transcribed Marc-André Hamelin’s version of Nokia’s infamous ringtone (see the YouTube video below). Feel free to download it, print it, play it, share it, take credit for it, whatever. PDF format: Page 1 | 2 P.S. – the last 7 notes of the piece are meant to sound like dial
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That’s the gig I almost landed today, but I missed the phone call from the person who was going to ask me to do it. Oh well! I still had a great time watching the performance. Hands down the best piano performance I have ever seen live, and I’ve seen a handful of big names.
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Again, here is another port from my old site onto this blog: BackgroundIn August of 2008 I began teaching piano skills, repertoire, and theory to UVA students and Charlottesville residents. At first I was nervous… I can play the piano..but can I teach it? After my first lesson, however, I realized that teaching piano was
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Here is the “Max/MSP” page from my old site. Although I have a lot of fun with Max, I’m still very much a novice. Enjoy! Mungamung (.txt | screenshot) An instrument that can send and receive signals. Noober LFO (.txt | screenshot) So named because my professor’s LFO was named the “Uber LFO”.
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Since I’m in the process of porting my entire site onto this blog, you can expect a lot of entries today. Here is my old “audio” page: Piano Flux (November 2009) I. Harmony II. Melody Portraits (August – December 2009) No.5 (YouTube) No.7 Chamber Agreement for piano and violin (November 2009) Orchestra Emcat Music
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At first I thought this promo video was a joke, but actually….it isn’t. From now on all of my music will be composed with Microsoft Songsmith.
I put six patches on the Max/MSP page — go check em out! In other news, Virginia has been hit with one nasty snow storm, which I had the good fortune of driving through for eight hours last night. The normally pleasant three-hour drive from Charlottesville to Virginia Beach ended up being pretty treacherous. Between
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