World Premiere: Forest Music

I composed Forest Music for the participants of the 2024 season of New Music On The Point, the summer program in Dunsmore, Vermont,in response to composer/director Juraj Kojs’s imaginative theme, Artphibian. Forest Music was inspired by five of the most common, yet magnificent, trees in this area: sugar maple, white ash, paper birch, Eastern hemlock and Eastern white pine. This is a guided improvisation piece, with performer-chosen instrumentation and music that traces the growth cycle of these trees from seeds to leave, roots and bark, and their interaction with the surrounding ecosystem. It is part of my Quotidian series, with music inspired by the natural and built world that can be performed by performers at all levels. Participants in New Music on the Point premiered Forest Music on the Falls of Lana Trail in Salisbury, VT. Versions are in preparation for all growth regions in the US.