"The flute player could really play."
-Mario Davidovsky
NewsGarrett Schumann's January 2023 article about the legacy of Vicente Lusitano and the history of scholarship around his lift in the New York Times, inspired by a sign I brought to a BLM protest in 2020
I joined the flute faculty of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in August 2022 My latest tinyefforts set is here -- #tinyefforts2022 It's a new companion set to #tinyefforts2020 and #tinyefforts2021 with the same basic goal: four new compositions, available for free download, to be performed however you like. I'll send money to support any musician who make a recording of any of these new works. The web store is open! Scores are available for perusal and purchase -- click here. In August 2020 I became the Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Career Services at The Juilliard School. I'm honored to be on the artist roster for the Haynes flute company. |
Upcoming eventsFebruary 12, 3:30-7pm
Montclair State University Flute Day with Mark Sparks, Linda Marks, and Haynes Flutes February 18, 11:30am Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention panelist for "Fostering Inclusivity in Community Engagement" March 1 University of New Mexico Arts Career Fair panelist for "Building Community in the Arts" March 2 University of New Mexico master class with the studio of Valerie Potter |
Recent recordings
January 2023, Paper Daughter by Whitney George with The Curiosity Cabinet (radio drama) -- PAPER DAUGHTER tells the story of a family in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the 1900 Bubonic Plague. Our story begins on Lunar New Year as a Grandson lights incense for his Mother. Grandfather tells the tale as he remembers it— beginning with patient zero through the quid pro quo shook on in the Oval Office to suppress the news and blame the Chinese. This play provides insight into the arduous immigration process the paper sons and paper daughters had to go through to get in through Angel Island. PAPER DAUGHTER provides an insight into the timelessness of family relationships, prejudice and violence, politicians and oppression and of course, illness. The tradition of community oral storytelling has aided in the remembrance of events past, and serves as foreshadowing events future. These three stories dissect the power of fear mongering in three separate times and locations. Echoes of current day issues of racism, capitalism, and consumerism are prevalent in each of these three narratives.
Amanda Russo Stante and Kimberly Carballo premiered my song cycle, The good we do in the fall of 2022 at Susquehannah University.
In 2022 Amity Trio released their album Between Us Now, which includes my works On Imagination and The Parting Glass
Kelsey Bentley of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra premiered my new horn solo, "Nowhere to hide" as part of the KSO1x1 project.
The Flute Center of New York presented my solo recital, which I called a Tiny Blue Room Concert for reasons that will become clear in the video on May 20. I'm performing works by Valerie Coleman, Ulysses Kay, Shirish Korde, Brian Raphael Nabors, Kimberly Osberg, and Toru Takemitsu, as well as my #tinyefforts2020 set.
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.