I'm especially interested in historical performance practices. I've sung in and conducted choirs ever since, which is to say for twenty years give or take. But my major point of participation in the music world is as a composer. The composers that have taught me the most are, in chronological order, William Billings , Charles Ives , Anton Webern, Bela Bartok and John Cage. I intend for it to open your ears so you hear what's going on around you in a new way.
Music is an art that depends on the passage of time.
All music takes place in the midst of silence, and just as a wall or a hedge marks off space, musical sounds mark off time. I believe the basic difference between music and noise is that music, one way or another, organizes the time that it takes to perform it. My task as a composer is to create and order sounds that are no less satisfying than the silence from which they emerge and into which they return. The question is so much more worth their time and my attention than the compliment. I'm accepting commissions.