Tour in Baltimore & Westminster MD

Excited to head to a tour with my group Venture-Bound: 

New Work for Big-Band with NYC’s Composers Concordance BigBand March3rd Cutting Room.

I’m excited to be featured in a concert of World premieres of compositions for Big Band happening March 3rd Cutting Room NYC. Don’t sleet on this one !! My featured soloists are : John Clark (French Horn), Joe Abba (Drums), Jonathan Finlayson (Trumpet), Livio Almeida & Gerson Galante (Alto Sax), Jason Jackson (Trombone)

De Pais Project / Air Train Festival Feat. Victor Bastidas (colombia)

Excited to play with Colombian drummer Victor Bastidas, playing his originals! La Nacinal 11/30 8pm Air Train Festival 12/1 5pm

Tour Chicago & Canada Oct 26th-28th with my Trio

Featuring the trio w/ Tamir Shmerling – Bass Shareef Taher – Drums Chicago School of Folk (U.S.A) October 26th  School of Folk Chicago Citlalin Theatre (U.S.A) October 27th Citlalin Theatre Edmonton Yard-Bird Suite (CANADA) October 28th YardBird

Tour impressions

Our tour went well, glad to be back. Here is a clip of one of our performances in Israel’s – The Tel Aviv Museum

Israel tour with Duane and Robin Eubanks !

Excited to tour Israel with a fantastic band with Robin and Duane Eubanks. Simon Starr and Gasper Bertonej complete the group :

European Tour

Our European Tour went well, The music (John Zorn’s Book of Angels) was interesting all around. playing in Serbia, Germany, Netherlands, Austria was a fun experience!

Writing for Orchestra – Interview in Jerusalem Post

I had good time speaking with Barry Davis, from the Jerusalem post about writing for Orchestra, particularly for my comissioned piece for the Tel Aviv Soloist Orchestra. Link here

Secret Sect for String Orchestra – 4 performances in Israel

Comissioned by Adele and John Gray Endowment fund and performed by Tel Aviv Soloist Orchestra under direction of Barak Tal. Nice Writeups in the Jerusalem Post – Interview with me about writing for Orchestra. CLICK FOR READING  Nice Writeup (In Hebrew…) in the Ha’aretz Journal. CLICK FOR READING  

174-517 for Chamber Ensembe in memory of Primo Levi

On Purim, I’ll present with Composers Concordance and various other composers a program of Purim Inpired new music. My main inspiration came from reading the great writing of Primo Levi, Particularly his poems and biographical notes: I’ve set the music to his concentration camp number in the Auschwitz concentratino campe : 174-517. I’ve noticed this […]

Hartford & Soul

Great time in Hartford Baby Grand Piano series. Thanks for WNPR, Harford Courant and Owen McNally for a wonderful writeup on our tour: Click for details:  

Winter Tour 2016

Kennedy Center DVD 2015

Free download at : www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M6498  

Capitol BoP Strayhorn Centennial writeup

Happy to be mentioned among other greats in the CapitolBop Article about Billy Strayhorn Centennial: http://www.capitalbop.com/portrait-of-a-stray-thread-east-river-jazz-celebrates-the-legend-of-billy-strayhorn/ As Samora Pinderhuges gazed up from his piano, he let the final cadence of Billy Strayhorn’s signature arrangement of the jazz standard “Flamingo” reverberate throughout the Kennedy Center’s cathedral-like Grand Atrium. Taking in the packed crowd that had showed […]

Far East Tour November 4th – 11th

Excited to embark on a Far-East Tour in China and Phillipines !