I’m a fulltime composer now. After years as a critic, consultant, and thought leader on classical music’s future

Big news

The recording of my three string quartets, on the Acis label, played by the Terra String Quartet, recent winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition.

One track released now, a second coming this month, and the third with the full album in May.

The track out now is Quartet for Anne, which I wrote as a surprise birthday gift for my wife, Anne Midgette, 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 broadcast it.

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.