City Walks at SFO “You Are Hear” Festival

Posted on Jun 25, 2010 | 0 comments
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City Walks at SFO “You Are Hear” Festival

Some composer friends and I have been kicking around the idea of getting our music played in unconventional venues. The idea is that if music is only played in concert halls, then the audience is limited to people who take time out of their busy schedules to seek it out, to say nothing of willingness to spend money on tickets. Surely we can find new ways of...

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"City Walks" Recording Posted

Posted on May 17, 2009 | 0 comments
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I’ve posted the recording of last week’s premiere of my new string quartet piece City Walks.  Please visit this page to hear excerpts or the entire piece.

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"City Walks" for String Quartet: A short program note

Posted on May 5, 2009 | 0 comments
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The following is a program note for my new string quartet work City Walks, which receives its premiere this weekend in Berkeley, California. I began composing City Walks at the end of 2008 after finding a few pages of music for string quartet deep in the caverns of my computer’s file system.  I had absolutely no recollection of composing this, and if it...

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Upcoming String Quartet Premiere

Posted on Apr 6, 2009 | 0 comments
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My new piece, City Walks for string quartet, will be premiered by the Eidolon Quartet next month in Berkeley, California.  If you’re in the Bay Area, please come and check it out!  The concert also features new works by my very talented colleagues Alexis Alrich, Clark Suprynowicz and Clare Twohy. The concert is on Saturday, May 9th at 8:00pm in the Dalby...

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Music by Joseph Castaldo: String Quartet 1978

Posted on Dec 23, 2008 | 4 comments
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Music by Joseph Castaldo: String Quartet 1978

My first (and only) composition teacher at the University of the Arts, where I received my bachelor’s degree in the ’80s, was Joseph Castaldo, whose music is shockingly unknown today.   If you do a Google search on “Joseph Castaldo composer“, you’ll find an inexplicable number of resulting pages having to do with his birthday...

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