Just a quick update, I've finally found a job! I began this week as an administrative associate with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. They're an awesome group, and my coworkers are lovely people. I'm looking forward to doing a lot of good things with them. Check out LACO here, or have a look at the fancy page they made for me on their site by clicking here.
Check out the video that I made as a preview for Monday Evening Concerts' show this upcoming week:
It's the first time I've ever made a video about anything, and I learned a lot about editing very quickly to do it. See you at Zipper Hall in LA on Monday?
Just a quick update, as of yesterday I own a publishing company. It's called Bathysphere Music, for reasons I may or may not explain in a future interview. I founded/filled out an application to start it because if on the off chance ASCAP ever collects their thirty dollars for my selling out the Staple Center, my simply writing the music isn't enough. It has to be published for them to mail a check, and if you publish your music yourself you have to register twice, once as a composer, and once as a publishing company. Cool, eh?
Though as far as I can tell the purpose of this is for ASCAP to double their income from application fees, at least I got a name I like. Maybe I can come up with a cool logo too.
This is pretty straightforward. The people of Iran are fighting their own regime for freedom and human rights, and there's currently a resolution going through the House for the US to support them. And we can all help out pretty easily by taking a second to write our local elected representatives. Please do so by clicking the following link, and share it with everyone you can. Thanks.
My short suite for small orchestra, entitled "Short Suite for Small Orchestra," was tonight chosen as piece of the year after being performed by the London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra at St. Gabriel's Church in London, as part of the All Ears Festival 2009. Cool! They're sending me a recording of the performance and a nifty certificate. If you just can't wait you can hear the Stranded Ensemble playing it here.