This is a string trio that was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Emil Bach House in the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago, where I live. Performed by Henry Zheng, vln; Sixto Franco, viola; Alyson Berger, cello. Commissioned by Access Contemporary Music.

Surrounding Elements

Breathe

David Sanford, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, is the musical director of the Pittsburgh Collective, a 20-piece contemporary big band.

“Alchemy” by David Sanford and the Pittsburgh Collective | Radcliffe Institute

2022. 
Arditti String Quartet.

Irvine Arditti (vl. I) 
Ashot Sarkissjan (vl. II)
Ralf Ehlers (vla.)
Lucas Fels (vc.)

Cartas Revisadas

Court-circuit Ensemble

Jean Deroyer (Conductor)
Anne-Cécile Cuniot (Flute)
Pierre Dutrieu (Clarinet)
Jean-Marie Cottet (Piano)
Alexandra Greffin Klein (Violin)
Julien Decoin (Cello)

Christopher Jacobs (Audio engineer)
SUNY University at Buffalo, Oct. 27, 2022

Variations on a late arrival (2022)

Mecanismos - premiered during the 2023 Distat Terra Festival
Quartetto Maurice
Sound recording: Pablo Boltshauser

Mecanismos - for string quartet

From The Start

Recorded by the Arditti Quartet during June in Buffalo festival 2023.

what's inside the cold (2023)

A new, through-composed piece for concert band. The individual parts are NYSSMA level 3 or lower, appropriate for a skilled middle school or for most high school bands. 

Still seeking premiere.

Recorded by Catherine Sangiovanni; band directed by Aaron Burgess.

Light Shines In The Darkness

This was the concert premiere of "Listen Here," performed by the Ithaca College Choir; Sean Linfors, conductor

Program Notes:
LISTEN HERE was written in response to the tragic mass school-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.  The anti-war poem by Langston Hughes was chosen because I believe that we are potentially sending our children and ourselves into a new kind of war each day without stricter gun-control laws.  This is not an anti-gun piece.  It is an anti-violence piece, meant to raise awareness around the complex issues and solutions to prevent these recurrent acts of senseless gun-violence.

Winter Choral Concert

Listen Here for SATB A Cappella with Vocal Percussion

Andi Schnellmann - electric bass
Manuel Troller - electric guitars
David Meier - drums and percussion

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