SPRING UPDATES Spring is finally busting out all over! As are four projects I am currently working on which are in various stages of development and likely to keep me occupied for some time. The new recording of my Concertpiece for Horn, Clarinet and Piano is in the final mastering phase before we move on to an album release, live performance and videotaping! I have started scoring my 2025 modern dance work The Fire and the Rose for a small orchestra. I don't have pockets deep enough to...

American Collage: The Way Home Recently I feel, as Dante wrote at the beginning of The Divine Comedy, "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray..." The reason for this being my inability to find the Spirit of America which unified us as a people and guided and strengthened me through so much of my life previously. I don't wish to go into the negatives responsible for this situation. But in short, I've been feeling lost and blindsided by all the divisiveness...

From left to right in photo at upper left: Jan Kosulic (PARMA Session Producer) Lukas Dittrich (Clarinet) Radek Baborak (Featured Horn) Miroslav Sekera (Piano) at Studio Martinek, Prague (And me at lower left participating via Zoom) On February 25th, 2026 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Central European Time) I had the great pleasure and honor of collaborating with the artists pictured above in a recording session of my composition Concertpiece for Horn, Clarinet and Piano. It was an intense and...