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Rock Garden Premiered at Tanglewood
I am beyond excited to be back at Tanglewood today for the premiere of my new piece for double wind quintet, Rock Garden, commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center! It’s being played on a prelude concert on Saturday night at 6pm in Studio E in the Linde Center alongside some amazing pieces by Gabriela Ortiz,…
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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.