"The flute player could really play."
-Mario Davidovsky
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In August 2020 I became the Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Career Services at The Juilliard School. I'm honored to join the fantastic roster of artists at the Haynes flute company. The launch of #tinyefforts2020 I'm making four new compositions available for free download and will use my stimulus check to support musicians who make a recording of any of them. It's my tiny effort to keep making music in the summer of 2020. |
EventsNovember 13 -- flutist Meerenai Shim performs my work "The people could fly" in a live stream concert hosted by the Center for New Music (tickets available here)
October 17, 5pm Eastern -- clarinetist David Cook performs the entire #tinyefforts2020 set at WoodwindFest October 2-4 -- flutist Hilary Abigana (The Fourth Wall Ensemble) performs my work "The people could fly" at the 2020 Oklahoma Flute Society's Virtual Flute Fair September 24 -- I'm leading a workshop at Juilliard on Engaging Your Audience. Hosted by the Office of Community Engagement and the Marks Center for Career Services. September 21 -- I'm mooderating a panel at Juilliard on "The Arts as Community Engagement and Activism" with Chanel daSilva, Hector Rivera, and Andrew Yee. Hosted by the Office of Community Engagement and the Marks Center for Career Services. September 15 -- Natasha Farny, Assistant Professor of Cello at SUNY Fredonia, performs my work "Sunshower" at the ExSTRINGavanza faculty recital September 6 -- Speaking on a panel about grants in the landscape of 2020 with Choral Arts New England |
Recent recordings
In October 2020 I recorded two works by American Black composers that I had fallen in love with over the summer -- Ulysses Kay's Prelude (1943) and the first movement of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Sonata a'la Baroque (1994). Enjoy!
In March 2020, I commissioned two pieces by Kimberly Osberg for my students as part of her Commissions from Quarantine series. Enjoy!
No. 24 "Adventurous and Spunky"
No. 24 "Adventurous and Spunky"
No. 25 "Change of Color"
Ghost Ensemble's debut LP, We Who Walk Again, with works by Sky Macklay, Ben Richter, Andrew C. Smith, and Pauline Oliveros has been released on Indexical Records!
Check out Brian Olewnick's review here.
Check out Brian Olewnick's review here.
Praise for Ensemble 365's CD Eastern Currents from Colin Clarke in Fanfare Magazine--
"The standard of performance throughout by all performers is pretty much faultless."
"The performance here [of Frangiz Ali-Zadeh's Three Watercolors] is fabulous, the aching loneliness of “Narcissus” for soprano and flute (itself implying a shakuhachi) balanced by the angular play of “The Boatman.”
"Mary Hubbell is a most expressive soprano, and Alice Jones the perfect partner (the two parts are very much equals). The deep flute resonance of the opening of the final movement, “Dream Song,” and the way Hubbell’s blanched tone morphs with the flute sound is a spectacular sonic feat that captures the fluidity of sound that lies at the heart of Lam’s music."
"A phenomenally interesting release... required listening."
The CD is available on Amazon and iTunes and Spotify.
"The standard of performance throughout by all performers is pretty much faultless."
"The performance here [of Frangiz Ali-Zadeh's Three Watercolors] is fabulous, the aching loneliness of “Narcissus” for soprano and flute (itself implying a shakuhachi) balanced by the angular play of “The Boatman.”
"Mary Hubbell is a most expressive soprano, and Alice Jones the perfect partner (the two parts are very much equals). The deep flute resonance of the opening of the final movement, “Dream Song,” and the way Hubbell’s blanched tone morphs with the flute sound is a spectacular sonic feat that captures the fluidity of sound that lies at the heart of Lam’s music."
"A phenomenally interesting release... required listening."
The CD is available on Amazon and iTunes and Spotify.