2018 Highlights
-Recorded backing vocals on Charlie Looker’s album, Simple Answers (we later performed with full orchestra at the CD release in June at National Sawdust)
-Officially stepped into a new permanent position as a professional chorister with Fifth Avenue Presbyterian chamber choir. (Finally got to sing Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Rachmaninoff’s Vespers in their entirety.)
-Returned as a quarter finalist at the American Traditions Competiton in Savannah, Georgia.
-Started workshopping pieces for QUARTET which will all premiere at Roulette March 3, 2019.
-Recorded a small part for the soundtrack, and got a sneak preview during the final editing process of Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s newest film, REDOUBT
-Revisited Schubert Lieder with pianist Amy Duran, and participated in a master class with Tom Muraco, an event organized by the Art Song Preservation Society
-Performed Louis Andriessen’s De Staat with Nina Faina Mutlu, Jamie Jordan, Mellisa Hughes, Axiom with Jeff Milarsky conducting. The composer was present for the dress and performance.
-Reprised a sneak peek of new material to come for Judd Greenstein’s opera, A Marvelous Order at LPR
-Dave’s Waves
-Submitted a song to three songwriting competitions. Already in the semi-finals for the International Song Competition. Will know if I advance in March 2019.
-Began prepping Gershon Kingsley’s unpublished and unperformed chamber works for distribution.
-Recorded backing vocals on Charlie Looker’s album, Simple Answers (we later performed with full orchestra at the CD release in June at National Sawdust)
-Officially stepped into a new permanent position as a professional chorister with Fifth Avenue Presbyterian chamber choir. (Finally got to sing Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Rachmaninoff’s Vespers in their entirety.)
-Returned as a quarter finalist at the American Traditions Competiton in Savannah, Georgia.
-Started workshopping pieces for QUARTET which will all premiere at Roulette March 3, 2019.
-Recorded a small part for the soundtrack, and got a sneak preview during the final editing process of Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s newest film, REDOUBT
-Revisited Schubert Lieder with pianist Amy Duran, and participated in a master class with Tom Muraco, an event organized by the Art Song Preservation Society
-Performed Louis Andriessen’s De Staat with Nina Faina Mutlu, Jamie Jordan, Mellisa Hughes, Axiom with Jeff Milarsky conducting. The composer was present for the dress and performance.
-Reprised a sneak peek of new material to come for Judd Greenstein’s opera, A Marvelous Order at LPR
-Dave’s Waves
-Submitted a song to three songwriting competitions. Already in the semi-finals for the International Song Competition. Will know if I advance in March 2019.
-Began prepping Gershon Kingsley’s unpublished and unperformed chamber works for distribution.