Last November I spent several days in Montgé-en-Goële, just outside of Paris, working with saxophone guru Daniel Kientzy. Our goal was to digitally assemble the pre-recorded accompaniment parts for the piece I had written for him, Concertino: Beautiful Beast, scored for contra-bass saxophone, 2 banjos,…

Looking forward to the premiere of two more Louis Jenkins settings, thanks to the indefatigable John Michel and Barbara Brown. In 2020, John and Barb embarked on a project to commission art song settings of all 62 short poems in…