Category: Press

Fain: “Portals” @ The Gardner (Boston Globe preview)

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Coming soon to The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – Tim Fain’s “Portals” – in its Boston premiere. “Portals” explores the concept of live performance in the digital age. Fain shares some insight in David Weininger’s preview for The Boston Globe.…

Danielpour: “Achingly beautiful…”

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John Pitcher of Nashville Scene reviews Richard Danielpour’s newest Naxos CD: the Nashville Symphony’s world premiere recordings of Darkness in the Ancient Valley, A Woman’s Life, and Lacrimae Beati. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts, joined by soprano soloists Angela Brown and Hila…

Fain: “Portals” Down Under

As Tim Fain continues his Portals multi-media tour around the world, here’s what Jessica Nicholas of the Sydney Morning Herald said about the Australian premiere: “…[Fain] throws off Glass’ trademark cascading arpeggios with jaw-dropping ease, yet the effect is anything…

Moab Music Festival 2013

This summer, Moab Music Festival was featured on NPR Classical’s “Deceptive Cadence” as a must-see among “some of the summer’s best events”.  View the listing here. Moab Music Festival was also featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York…

Bermel: An Real Showpiece

In May, Derek Bermel traveled to Dallas and served a composer residency with Voices of Change. He also participated as a featured performer in a concert that showcased his music: Cat Calls; Twin Trio; Schizm, and Mulatosh Stomp. Read why…

Kernis: “Dreamsongs” at Bellingham

On July 5, celebrated cellist Joshua Roman opened the Bellingham Festival of Music’s 20th anniversary season with a performance of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Dreamsongs for cello and orchestra, conducted by Michael Palmer. Find out why Lily Olason of the Entertainment…

Bermel: Be “Dazzled” by “Canzonas”

Here’s another great review (!) — this time from the San Francisco Chronicle — of Derek Bermel’s newest disc “Canzonas Americas” from Canteloupe Records. Joshua Kosman talks “ingenuity, beauty and wit….” and calls it a “superb new compilation… [that will]…

Boriskin’s “Tremendous Style”

The “irrepressible Michael Boriskin” recently joined JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic for two performances of the Shostakovich Second Piano Concerto. Buffalo News reviewer Mary Kunz Goldman wrote “Boriskin showed tremendous style…[and] zip…At the snap-bang end of the first movement,…

Tim Fain: “Electrifying”

After his “electrifying” performance of Vivaldi and Piazzola with the Flagstaff Symphony, find out why the Arizona Daily Sun calls Tim Fain “a charismatic and dynamic performer.”  Read the full article here.

More Music @ Moab – Sneak Peek (Arizona Lifestyle)

Here’s a glimpse of just one of the beautiful “concert halls” that you can hear great music performed in when you’re at the Moab Music Festival. This shot is from page 118 of Arizona Lifestyle.  For more information, read more about it here: http://az-lifestyle.com/2012/7/712.html.