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Ratyll Performance at The Boston Conservatory by Transient Canvas
Transient Canvas performs my piece Ratyll for bass clarinet and marimba tonight at 7:30pm at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 132 Ipswich St. The program features a plethora of new music for this group, including works by Yaz Lancaster, Yi-Ting Lu, Brittany J Green, Mikhail Johnson, Teerath Majumder, Caroline Louise Miller, Matthew Evan Taylor, Jennifer…
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Next Time Will Be Different Recording Session at NEC
I had a fantastic recording session with violinist Lilit Hartunian and recording engineer/producer Jeffrey Means this weekend in New England Conservatory’s Burnes Hall. We recorded my piece for scordatura violin Next Time Will Be Different that I wrote for Lilit during the first months of the pandemic. It responds to another violin solo by Kenji…
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Inscribed on a Lintel Premiere at Wellesley College and Ratyll Premiere at Tufts by Transient Canvas
It feels like an age since I’ve had an in-person premiere, and now all of a sudden, I have two coming up back-to-back. On Sunday March 13 at 2pm at Wellesley College Deborah Selig and David Collins are premiering my new song for soprano and piano “Inscribed on a Lintel,” which sets a beautiful poem…
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Presentation at CFU
It was a great pleasure to give a virtual talk at the University of Central Florida today. It was an honor to share my music with the undergraduate composers there, and a joy to see my old friend Professor Alex Burtzos.
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BBC Music Magazine Reviews Borne by a Wind
I’m grateful to BBC Music Magazine for a short but sweet review of Borne by a Wind: “A thought-provoking selection of recent works by this Boston-based composer. Red Wind is the dramatic centerpiece, fusing poetry with an unusual and evocative musical soundscape.”
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Sound Design for Euripides’ Medea Production at Duke
It was quite a trip doing the sound design for the Duke University Department of Theater Studies’ production of Euripides’ Medea completely remotely this spring. I’m proud to have been a part of this production team, which navigated many pitfalls and hurdles to livestream three performances this weekend.
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The Wire Reviews Borne by a Wind
The Wire says of Borne by a Wind : “These contrasting, yet contemporary, modes of delivering Mackey’s words are set within tactfully spaced and stylistically flexible music.” Read the full review here: The Wire.
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Textura Reviews Borne by a Wind
Textura calls Borne by a Wind “Never less than stimulating… starry-eyed and mystical.” Read the full review here: Textura.
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Classical-Modern Music Reviews Borne by a Wind
Grego Applegate Edwards notes “Some composers create music as they might breathe. The music follows upon itself in a natural flow, like conversation idealized into a musical transform. That’s the feeling I get listening to Sid Richardson on his recent Borne by a Wind.” Read the full review here: Classical-Modern Music.
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Take Effect Reviews Borne by a Wind
Take Effect hails Borne by a Wind as “another exciting chapter in [Richardson’s] body of work that displays a chamber, orchestral and classical vision that few, if anyone, could replicate.” Read the full review here: Take Effect.