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I am pleased to announce that my Disordered Songs will be performed by soprano Janice Isabel Jackson and pianist Barbara Pritchard in the next few months.  Here are the performance locations and dates: The Music Room, Halifax Wednesday, February 27, 2019, … Continue reading →

The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the University of Winnipeg, are pleased to present The Music of Remembrance: Songs from the Ringelblum Archive  Sunday, January 27, 2019 2:00 PM (free … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce that my work for women’s choir, White Field (2018) will be toured in Iceland by Esprit de Choeur in August. Here are some the stops along the way. -August 8: Harpa Concert Hall summer series, 4PM … Continue reading →

The Agassiz Music Festival in Winnipeg premiered my 4th String Quartet at the University of Winnipeg (Eckhardt-Grammatté Hall) on Friday, June 15 at 7:30 PM.  The annual Winnipeg festival ran from June 9 to June 15…check out #AgassizFest2018 for more … Continue reading →

Esprit de Choeur will perform excerpts from my new choral work White Field in Gimli, Manitoba on May 12…more details to follow.

My song cycle, Songs from the Ringelblum Archive will be performed at the University of Manitoba Deshautel Faculty of Music on April 13, 2017. The piece will be presented as part of Elena Howard-Scott’s graduating recital from the Faculty of … Continue reading →

On January 31, 2018, my song cycle Disordered Songs (2005) will be performed by students of the vocal interpretation class at the University of Manitoba. Full performance of all 11 songs is at 12:30 in Eva Clare Hall, U of … Continue reading →

On December 13, 2017 the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra premiered a new work entitled, Ritornello for flute, oboe, violin and strings.  This was commissioned as a companion piece to J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2. The soloists for the premiere were Laura … Continue reading →

Songs from the Ringelblum Archive is a setting of texts by poets of the Warsaw Ghetto. These Yiddish texts were hidden along with other cultural artifacts in the secret Ringelblum Archive. The texts were translated into English by Sarah Traister … Continue reading →

In October 2016 I completed a new chamber music piece entitled Velox et Sordida.  This five-minute work is scored for piano solo, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, cello and bass.