We sincerely hope that you enjoy this track from Advent's upcoming new album, "Silent Sentinel"--CD release scheduled for August 11, 2015 with limited-time pre-sale bundle (with bonus content) on sale now!

A big thank-you to our special guest performers, Ben "BenZuda" Harrison (fiddles) and Dan D'Elia (drum corps member), for their wonderful contributions.

ADVENT - To Dunsinane

Just a sampling of some of my music over the years.  You can play them all from this page but if you click any of the titles , you'll be taken to a dedicated page that includes commentary about the history and/or structure of the piece.

As for me, I became interested in music at a very young age and began taking drum lessons around the age of 9 or 10.  I formed my first band around 1969.  At first we mostly played rock'n'roll and blues covers but quickly began gravitating towards original music and progressive rock covers.  During this period, I also began playing guitar, a little flute and keyboards.  By the time I went off to the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, piano was my primary instrument and I was studying classical music seriously.  

After getting a B.A. degree in 1978, I headed off to the New England Conservatory of Music where I earned an M.M. degree in music composition, studying with Donald Martino and Arthur Berger.  Through Martino's influence, I became increasingly enamoured of the music and teachings of Milton Babbitt (as well as finding him a profoundly warm and entertaining human being when I met him) and so it seemed natural that my next step would be to move on to Princeton University where I earned my Ph.D. in composition and theory, studying with Milton (as well as Peter Westergaard and Joe DuBiel).  I also did extensive work with digital synthesis and computer analysis of music, working with Paul Lansky.

Unfortunately, 1985 was not an auspicious time for an academically-oriented composer to enter the job market and I ended up turning those musically-acquired computer skills into several years of programming and increasingly comfortable paychecks.  A few decades later and I still work in the data world (but now on the business side).  I make music whenever time (and the muse) permit. Sadly, that's not that often these days and so you won't find much recent music here.

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Welcome to our SoundCloud site, dedicated to Advent and its members. If you really like what you hear and are interested in finding out more about Advent (or possibly even buying some of our music), please click on the "Advent Website" link above. Most importantly, though, we hope that you enjoy the tunes.