pianist. composer. performer. educator.
I’m excited to announce that my new single, “Invocation,” will be released on August 26th! It’s the first track from my forthcoming album, Tentative Armor. The best description I can come up with for the track is that it is somewhere between Laurie Anderson and Dead Can Dance. I think it is pretty unique and I …
One of my very favorite ongoing projects is my role as pianist and choir director for the Obie Award-winning The Secret City. I always struggle to describe what exactly it is and my friends who attend invariably say, “well, that wasn’t what you described!” To which I reply, “Well, then, how would you describe it?” Then …
I posted it all over the internets, but somehow I always seem to forget this little ol’ blog here. It funded. My kickstarter funded. I couldn’t believe it and it was honestly looking pretty bleak for a while there. This morning I noticed that on June 19th I posted on my Instagram that I had one day left and …
This is a piece from Tentative Armor called “Five Tasks of Grief.” I’ve performed it a few times and have really fantastic videos from each performance, but it just hasn’t felt right to share this piece out of the context of the show – not to mention the fact that it is such a painful …
Walker Lukens invited me to remix a track for his Devoted Remixed project. He’s a great musician and friend so I was really excited to do this. Here’s the iTunes link, you should buy it and really, all of his music. UPDATE: SXSWfm talked a little about Walker and my remix. You can check it …
I’m excited to announce that I am going to be recording music from Tentative Armor starting late next month. The tentative (hehe) plan is to record piano, strings, oboe and voice at Benny’s Wash and Dry in late June and I’ll spend the summer mixing the album. I’ll release the song “Invocation” as a single …
unexpected (glorious so) limbs and hips like water flow this single moment, still. hands meet (unattached) for this moment: mine. _ 5.3.14 NYC
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these tour diaries, but this last weekend with Sandra Bernhard was so extra-especially fantastic that I just have to write about it. Sandra, Henya (our road manager), and I met early Friday morning to start the journey up to Plymouth, New Hampshire for our first show at The …
