Just three days left in this series of US engagements that began May 2nd with the NY Phil (see my previous post), and ends this coming Sunday, June 30th with a sixth and final performance of Phil Glass’s Galileo Galilei […]
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Just three days left in this series of US engagements that began May 2nd with the NY Phil (see my previous post), and ends this coming Sunday, June 30th with a sixth and final performance of Phil Glass’s Galileo Galilei […]
In the Summer of 1992, I graduated from Cambridge University. This news was a huge surprise…
The Betamax cassette was invented in Japan in 1975 and released in the U.S. a year later, followed by the launch of the competitive and ultimately triumphant VHS cassette almost two years later. A card-carrying nerd, even in those early […]
The What’s Next section of this site is titled On the Road, because that’s where I spend a lot of my time, when I’m not spending long (happy) hours of preparation in my studio! In 2019 however, three years into my […]
Well…I’ve been happily slammed with work since my appointment in Charlotte late last year (see earlier posts). So slammed, in fact, that I haven’t had the bandwidth to post here in 2024 until now! The year started with a really […]
This is my first post since early November when I was wrapping up six performances of Jake Heggie’s Intelligence at the Houston Grand Opera. I usually try to take a long break between an operatic production and whatever comes next, but this […]
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra announces its 12th Music Director…
After several months spent learning it, five weeks rehearsing it and another two performing it Intelligence at Houston Grand Opera is finally wrapped along with its recording for Apple Music Classical. I’m already on to the next project – a Verdi Requiem […]
It seems like so long ago that I posted the Arts & Culture Texas preview of Intelligence, Jake Heggie, Gene Scheer and Jawole Zollar’s new opera, and now I’m three performances into its World Premiere run at Houston Grand Opera and […]
Just when I thought the 2022-23 season was over, there turned out to be, as the late great Steve Jobs liked to say, “One More Thing”. I was invited to perform at the beautiful Sage concert hall in Gateshead, Newcastle […]
