Here are a few highlights from a very full summer of concerts, projects, and travel. Excerpts of our show, an interview with my brilliant colleague, scholar of contemporary music, Delia Casadei, and a documentary film will be shown on the Cy Twombly Foundation website in September. Bassist Neil Charles, from London, stepped in for this tour and did a fantastic job.
We then went into the studio in Zurich later in July with Michael Formanek to record with Intakt Records for a spring release.
I feel so fortunate to share the stage with these super creative improvisers and great human beings, all of whom are accomplished composers and bandleaders. While together, we performed this music at festivals in Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Vitoria, Pori, and Gmund in Corinthia, adding some newer compositions into the mix. All have their plus sides and lots of great music to listen to while not performing.
Musicians from around the world and a multiplicity of musical styles is again another reminder of the power of music to bring people together. We connected with two inspiring women scientists doing research on the effects of climate change in the Trondheim Fjord with whom we plan to collaborate in the coming months.
The next phase will see us working in Berkeley and environs in January Stay tuned for presentations of the project in the Bay Area and Trondheim. In late July, I spent a few days in a small village outside of Pesaro, Italy working on a new collaborative composition for improvising pianist and orchestra with my colleague from UC Berkeley, Carmine Cella, a fantastic composer, creator of software for assisted composition, and pilot.
