Greetings!  Back to this blog.  Thought I’d share a few things I was happy and grateful to do recently. I think all this music has a powerful connection to, and an acute sense of, history and communal environment.

Thrilled that Reiko Füting’s newest album is released this week. The album opens with my performance of the solo violin piece “passage: time (copy)”, which he wrote for me. I have loved performing “passage: time (copy)“, and this is the studio video.

Reiko has been a dear collaborator for over 15 years and I also premiered and recorded his stunning piece “tanz.tanz”.

I’m delighted to be part of a new album of duos by Ethan Iverson. It’s called Playfair Sonatas after Piers Playfair, who generously commissioned these pieces, and it’s on the Urlicht Audiovisual label, produced by Gene Gaudette. Ethan plays duo with six marvelous instrumentalists.  We start off the album with the Violin Sonata, which I so love!

A couple months ago, I performed for the first time a very beautiful and moving piece by Dalit Warshaw, called Conflagration, for a concert presented by Composers Now in New York. The composition is Dalit’s response to her visit to Auschwitz. Here’s the video of the performance.

Amazing pianist/composer Stewart Goodyear, who wrote me the wonderful piece Solo for my album Világ, has composed a new duo for us to play. It’s called Limin’, which is a word in Trinidadian culture for “hanging out with the community”. We premiered this vivid and high-energy piece at National Sawdust last fall and we’ll be recording it soon for Orchid Classics!

Recently I worked with wonderful composer Lisa Streich for the first time, for a portrait concert of her music at Miller Theatre, with longtime friends piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire. I played two quiet and evocative pieces, the solo falter, and safran for violin and motorized piano (an attached mechanism with strips of paper that stroke across the piano strings).