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!

I have posted the three papers from my UCSD Master’s port­fo­lio in a new sec­tion. There are abstracts and PDF ver­sions of the papers at the link above. In other news, I have been busy com­pos­ing and prepar­ing to move to the Nether­lands in the fall. More infor­ma­tion to follow.

I’ve posted a cou­ple of blog entries on my MySpace page, hav­ing to do with the phi­los­o­phy of music. One deals with the value of music in soci­ety today, the other with the eco­log­i­cal effects of music, and how the energy cri­sis will change the sound of our music. On a sim­i­lar note, I intend even­tu­ally to post some of my Master’s port­fo­lio papers here, which deal with related top­ics, once I’ve fin­ished my degree this sum­mer. Stay tuned.