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Visit the websites of Bon Operatit! and the New Resonance Orchestra.

Visit www.innova.mu to hear samples of the "Tapestry: New Music from the Americas" CD. 

Other organizations with whom I have worked at the HS level include the New Orleans Center for the Creative and Performing Arts as well as the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra.

 Please visit www.cdbaby.com for information on Bon Operatit's new CD entitled "Sensatiable." You can hear 30' tracks there.

Performance

  • Solo clarinet performances
  • Chamber music performances with winds, strings, and piano
  • Collaborative piano with singers and instrumentalists
  • Festival performances
  • Tours
  • Masterclasses in combination with clarinet recitals
  • Conducting assistance for theatre, choirs, bands, and orchestras

 

Recordings

www.innova.mu

Tapestry:  New Music from the Americas


    *Chamber music works for clarinet and various combinations of instruments.

    *Commentary by Dr. Mark McFarland (Georgia State University)

    *Features two compositions for clarinet, violin, and doublebass

 

Tapestry: New Music from the Americas is a well-chosen title for an exceptional new recording.  All of the works contained on this compact disc were composed within the last ten years, and several were newly commissioned specifically for this project.  The composers who contributed to the project represent the Americas: Mexico, the United States, Argentina, and Canada.  The performers recorded here are all extraordinary; of special note is the clarinetist Frankie Kelly, whose sumptuous tone and impeccable phrasing make her one of the hidden virtuosos on this instrument.  Grammy-winning bassist Eliot Wadopian is also featured.  The result is a recording with an international feel, born from the close collaboration of some of the finest musicians in the Americas today.

 

Vida Furtiva (Pablo Ortiz)

Reviews & Commentary

"...but I have listened to it (Tapestry) twice now, in the car, and feel like I am in a jungle of bird calls, rhythms, dances, and fantastic dreams-What a fine project and what an excellent performance you gave!"

Frances Averitt, Shenandoah Conservatory

"Six pieces of excellent new chamber music..promises the listener a melting pot of musical styles, which this CD delievers to delightful effect. Every piece on the disc is a composition of the highest order, and one is struck immediately by the immense enthusiasm of the performers. An interpretive spontaneity runs throughout the disc. This is a very engaging and appealing disc of great new chamber music."

The Clarinet

"But this is good music to hear: dramatic, vigorous, and written in a showy and stylish manner.... Performances are very good here, with clarinetist Frankie J. Kelly and violinist Adrian Justus deserving special mention from a noteworthy clutch of players."

21st Century Music

Loose Connections (Yehuda Yannay)

Color Prayer (Patricia Repar)

Preludio - Adrian Justus

Danza - Adrian Justus

Diasporan Dances (Matthew Nicholl)

Bolero/Cha

Guaguanco (In the Distance)

Interlude (Innerlude)

Guajira

Bembe

Five Pieces for Three Players (Yehuda Yannay) Coming Full Circle

Raindrop Variations

Hyperbreath

Duetting in Light Winds

Short-Long-Short Dance