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...
While being in Civitella I used to go swimming to the small lake not far away from the castle. I shot the shores of the lake from the very center of the lake. I was turning around on a raft for half an hour. Looking at the shot material it seems as if you are sailing...
A siren sprung to heedsome unsung self-same songbeats back the Baltic againagain to take her leaveby force of frozen seasand move to meetour rivers’ warmer mouths.Her body in and upagainst the gradientthe current insistentartery to capillary alwaysmore within 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...
