February and March will be similarly packed. I’ll be in Chicago for a performance of sgraffito by Gregory Oakes (cl) and Marianne Parker (pf) on 26 Feb, at Epiphany Music. This performance will be performed on a quarter-tone clarinet, a new instrument designed by Greg with Wolfgang Lohff and Birgit Pfeiffer, clarinet-makers in Copenhagen. It’s a piece of contrast and sharply drawn lines, with ferocious lines contrasted with suspension and color.

The week before, Avimimus will perform three of my motets at Mount Saint Joseph University in Cincinnati; this will be a partial premiere of roughly the first quarter of my Book of Motets, which is becoming a larger and larger project month by month, and for which grand plans are emerging for next season (that is what the young people call a teaser!).

THEN on March 12th, Camilla Hoitenga will be performing my solo flute piece, Wegmarken, in Bielefeld, Germany; Camila is one of the leading flutists of her generation in Europe, and in the pandemic, I wrote this meditation on the mountains and their birds,