In early Feb­ru­ary, I inter­viewed Donato Cabr­era, Res­i­dent Con­duc­tor at the SF Sym­phony and guest con­duc­tor for the Feb­ru­ary 28 SFCMP con­cert. In the inter­view, Cabr­era dis­cusses the dif­fer­ences between the Amer­i­can and Euro­pean con­duct­ing tra­di­tions, the dan­gers of over­spe­cial­iza­tion, chal­lenges fac­ing the new music com­mu­nity in the United States, and how he thinks works by liv­ing com­posers should be pro­grammed. You can read the inter­view on SFCMP’s blog.

Recently, I inter­viewed conductor/composer Chris­t­ian Bal­dini for the San Fran­cisco Con­tem­po­rary Music Play­ers. Chris­t­ian is con­duct­ing a piece by French com­poser, Philippe Hurel for SFCMP’s upcom­ing con­cert on April 26. Bal­dini is an Argen­tine musi­cian by birth, cur­rently teach­ing con­duct­ing at UC Davis near San Francisco.

Inter­est­ingly enough, in the process of the inter­view, we dis­cov­ered we have some things in com­mon, includ­ing a love of con­tem­po­rary music and new opera!

Com­poser Richard Zarou recently did a pod­cast inter­view with me, for his blog, No Extra Notes. No Extra Notes is a weekly pod­cast about up-and-coming com­posers. The inter­view deals with why I write music, some of the inspi­ra­tions behind my work, and a range of other top­ics. It also fea­tures two recent pieces of mine, Sen­sa­tional Rev­o­lu­tion in Med­i­cine and Kiss Around the World.

Amer­i­can com­poser Char­lie Wil­moth wrote an arti­cle on me and my music, which appeared today in Dusted Mag­a­zine. It’s always fas­ci­nat­ing for me to see how other peo­ple inter­pret what I do. Char­lie does a great job of encap­su­lat­ing sev­eral of the themes that are impor­tant to my work with his insight­ful com­men­tary. Thanks, Charlie!