I’m a fulltime composer now, after years as a critic, consultant, and thought leader on classical music’s future
The recording of my three string quartets is coming out. It’s on the Acis label, played by the Terra String Quartet, recent winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition.
We’re releasing it in stages. One quartet is already out, with a second coming soon, and the third with the full album later on.
The quartet out now is close to my heart — my Quartet for Anne, which I wrote as a surprise birthday gift for my wife, bringing musicians to our home to play it.
The Terra quartet plays it gorgeously. Hear it at the link, or on Spotify and other streaming services.
Three classical radio stations have aired it, with three more broadcasts coming.
Read my Substack post about the recording, and how my team and I are promoting it.
Listen to the sources of Quartet for Anne — how I adapted it from other music of mine that Anne knew.
Also here: some writing about how — which is shocking to me — we don’t have data on classical music ticket sales. We don’t know how far they may have fallen, so we can’t measure the size of the classical music crisis.