Past Projects

For presenters and prospective collaborators, here are titles of some past productions that he has been involved in, reflective of various themes. For a complete annotated program of any event or series, please contact him through this site and material will be furnished in PDF or other formats as requested.

• “The West” – major festival sponsored by the ACF and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Horowitz, artistic advisor
• “American Roots” –major festival of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Newark Museum, Joseph Horowitz, artistic advisor
• “Fantasies and Reflections” – a program of premieres of new works, including the major piano cycle Three American Fantasies
• “A Celebration of Native American Ceremony: the Navajo Coyoteway” – week long residency with Navajo John Co’ií Cook & premiere by Moscow Quartet
• “The Distant Native Voice” – CD & Symposium highlighting the crossover of Native American and Euro-American musics
• “Incroci di Millennio/Millennium Crossings” – CD & tour – Italian and American piano music from the last quarter of the 20th century, a trans-Atlantic venture
• “Winterreise and Beyond” – an interdisciplinary celebration with baritone Alexander Dobson 
• “Il pianoforte nel repertorio del Novecento e contemporaneo” – an atelier series for advanced students of piano and composition, with solo recital finale
• “Divagando attorno all’opera Sequenza del Vespero Vermiglio” – a dialogue with Luigi Cerantola, poet, & Curt Cacioppo, composer, sponsored by the Benetton Research Center, Treviso

• “Italy in Music, Verse and Vision” – a multi-media event, with international participation, centered on the work of Gabriele D’Annunzio
• “Liszt in Italy” – a multi-media realization of Liszt’s Italian-inspired solo works, with Kenneth Fearn, piano
• “Viva Vivaldi” – the premiere of oboe concerto, written for the International Venice Festival at the Chiesa della Pietà, based on Vivaldi’s famous Gloria
• “Beethoven for Bosnia” – all of the sonatas for piano and violin in a series of three benefit concerts to aid student refugees
• “German American Day” – featured artist for the 17th annual day of friendship, sponsored by the Deutsch-Amerikanischer Freundeskreis Niederrhein in Duisburg, Germany
• “Expressionist Miniatures” – a multi-media show combining music, art and poetry from early 20th century Germany and Austria
• “Channeling Tradition for the New Millennium” – a multimedia presentation showing how stylistic flexibility, audience outreach, and enhanced content recording widen public recognition
• “Stile e stilemi dagli Indiani d’America – a series of lectures on Native American music and its place in the broader cultural context, first offered at the Conservatory of Milan