Next season preview

Next year looks like a busy one.  I'll be performing Elizabethan music with the Folger Consort in Washington in September, Ars Subtilior with The Newberry Consort in Chicago in October, and plucking through Play of Daniel at the Cloisters in January.  Trefoil will be preparing for and recording a new CD.  I'll be writing music for guitarist Marc Wolf, a short operatic Scene for WCU's opera theater, and a new work for The Laughing Bird.  Carl Cranmer will be premiering a new piano sonata of mine, and I'm going to begin working on a new composiiton CD.  Add two concerts of Renaissance vocal polyphony with Musica Humana, and a solo lute recital in early September, and stir.

Lately

It's been a busy early spring.  I had a great time this week reconnecting with my buddies in Musica Humana Vocal Consort.  We have concerts coming up of Lamentations from Tudor England, and just started diving in.  I also enjoyed a trip to North Carolina to gig with Marcia Young and Wayne Hankin in Asheville and Brasstown.  I've got a bit of quiet coming up on the gig front, with the next events taking place in May. 

Here's a lovely review of the Laughing Bird Concert from last week.

Philadelphia Weekly Article

Check out the Philadelphia Weekly story on "Hey, Hey, Hey Mr. Corbett!" - a protest song I co-wrote with a student at WCU.  I love the comparison to the Jackson Five - almost inconceivable, but I guess it's true...

Laughing Bird @ the Anchor Room Salon

Here's a nice gig I'm participating in later this month.

Friday February 24, 2012, 8 pm, St. Clement's Church, 20th & Appletree Sts., Philadelphia.

Enjoy 5 centuries of secular vocal music in the beautiful chapel of St Clements Church and enjoy wine and cheese in the Anchor Room at this informal and intimate concert, featuring works by Machaut, Janequin, Lassus, Monteverdi, Landini and others. FREE!!! (donations accepted)

We will be joined by special guests:

Mark Rimple, lutenist
Rachel Cama, viola da gambist

The Laughing Bird is Philadelphia's premiere early music quartet:

Leslie Johnson, soprano
Jenifer L. Smith, mezzo soprano
Steven Bradshaw, tenor
Colin Dill, bass