The New York New Music Ensemble will be playing Tenebrae at the Pacific Rim Music Festival sponsored by UC Santa Cruz on Apr 24, 2010. 

NYNME will also be playing Tenebrae at Merkin in NYC later that month; keep checking here for updates.  

Since my faculty recital last semester, I've spent a lot of time trying to come up with a way to sustain some the interest in contemporary music that emerged out of the woodwork.  I won't go on another rant about my great disappointment with the leadership of Louisiana, and how money is being stripped from higher education and the greater arts community (ok, that was almost a rant).  I've banded together with two other fantastic composers, Jay Batzner and Philip Schuessler, to form Ensemble Ilusis which has the specific purpose of sharing contemporary music with the public.  We're in the process of filing for 501c(3) nonprofit status, and hopefully private donorship and federal monies will help us make ends meet where the state government has so miserably failed (oops, I almost did it again).  

We are planning to tour a few schools in the southern US, during the week of Feb. 8-12 next year.  In addition to sharing some great acoustic and electroacoustic music, we plan to give pre concert talks where we discuss some of the issues that we face as contemporary composers, so notes on our styles (Philip, Jay, and I are all very different types of composers), and a bit on the technology that we're using.  In addition to the three composers discussing and playing their own works, renowned soloists Kenneth Boulton (piano) and Richard Schwartz (saxophone) will be performing several compositions.

Read more on Ensemble Ilusis here.