Nomad Session - Voyage

I’m very excited to announce the release of the album “Voyage” by the ensemble Nomad Session. I had a blast playing trumpet on this recording. Nomad Session is a San Francisco, Bay Area based wind octet that combines the flexibility of a chamber ensemble with the power and color of larger wind and brass ensembles. This album features two clarinet concertos performed by the innovative and virtuosic clarinetist, Jeff Anderle.

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Recording Fredric Rzewski's Coming Together

I recently recorded Fredric Rzewski’s Coming Together with the San Francisco conductorless chamber orchestra One Found Sound. Coming Together is a minimalist piece and like many of Rzewski’s works, it is political in nature. Coming Together contains narrated text, written by Samuel Melville, a leader of the Attica prison rebellion in 1971.

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