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.