The Canticle of the Black Madonna, the opera I composed with my partner Tiziana DellaRovere, is coming to Portland, OR in September, 2014, via our non-profit, Anima Mundi Productions. Full details here.
Since the 2013 workshop premiere of The Canticle of the Black Madonna, there have been so many new developments and so many beautiful pictures and audio clips to share that I’ve developed a completely new website for our opera-oratorio. Check it out at...
The Canticle of the Black Madonna, our opera-oratorio three years in the making, will have its workshop premiere on Saturday, February 16 at 7:30 pm in Beall Concert Hall on the University of Oregon Campus in Eugene, Oregon. Author, poet, and artist Tiziana...
Tomorrow, May 10, The Ambrosia Ensemble, the group that I founded in 2010, is premiering four excerpts from the opera I’m composing, The Canticle of the Black Madonna, as well as two beautiful new motets by Northwest composers Diana Rosenblum and Robert...
I just learned that my Ave Maria for mixed choir will be performed by The Portland Vocal Consort, one of the premiere professional vocal ensembles of the Pacific Northwest. The concert, entitled the “Best of the Northwest,” features a number of highly...
My new website for The Canticle of the Black Madonna is up and running! It features an in-depth explanation of the project in all its many dimensions, as well as videos and links exploring the factual basic of this fictional work and a blog to provide updates about...