I had an amazing experience at Civitella: it was a platform for my most productive few weeks in several years. In addition to generating the opening section for my upcoming cd, creating a new performance work based on my discussions with the other Fellows, and...
My time at Civitella afforded me the opportunity to compose the complete draft short score of Man Made, a work for soprano and chamber orchestra (to be premiered by Anu Komsi and the Philharmonia Orchestra in May 2018 at the Royal Festival Hall, London). The piece is...
Umbrian landscape, before familiar to me only from Renaissance paintings. Long, simple days in which to work, in which ideas were fixed into music. Many family-style dinners with such a variety of people, and one festive picnic on a hill, celebrating the simultaneous...
