My life partner becomes my musical partner for this special duo show with Zoe Fried, featuring arrangements of music by Ravel, Cage, and Maslanka for oboe and marimba

Mind on Fire, Baltimore’s contemporary music collective, is teaming up with the Pratt Library to host a summer series of recitals at their various branch locations, and I will be playing a set of my favorite marimba works, as well as Mark Applebaum’s Aphasia, a piece inspired by this condition that disassociates words from their meaning, while surrounded by a lot of words and meaning :)

I am thrilled to be coming back to Ted Hearne’s riveting piece for drum set and wine-cork-prepared cello, furtive movements, this time with cellist Lavena Johanson, recording the work for her solo album in conjunction with the Evolution Music Series

DMV is back for year two, and I am excited to present again this year as their marimba specialist, performing some of my own repertoire, coaching student performances, and presenting on general concepts and approach to the instrument

Composer/pianist Ian Power leads an experimental program of his own music, a D. Edward Davis premiere, and works by Jennie Gottschalk and Laura Steenberge, along with myself, saxophonist Andrew Bernstein, oboist Zoe Fried, and flutist Stephanie Ray

I join the BSO percussion section as an extra to perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 under the baton of maestro Peter Oundjian

I join the BSO percussion section as an extra to perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 under the baton of maestro Peter Oundjian

The Percussion Collective gives the world premiere of Alejandro Viñao’s Stress and Flow, along with Neustadter’s Seaborne, and a performance of Philip Glass by the NYU Percussion Ensemble

icarus Quartet has been chosen as one of two finalists to perform for the 34th edition of the CMYS series competition

Baltimore’s contemporary music collective Mind on Fire presents a program featuring Sky Macklay's Microvariations, Chris Dietz's Contretemps, and a world premiere by Jamal Moore

Matt joins me at Mount Saint Mary’s University for a percussion concert with duos for marimbas, vibraphones, and drum setups

iQ continues its midwest tour at BGSU’s Bryan Hall with music by Weiser, Lubman, Laurello, and Lansky

iQ heads to WSU for a day with their piano and percussion departments, with masterclasses and coachings of student repertoire and an evening recital

I give my debut performance at Mount Saint Mary’s University with an evening of works for solo percussion by Crowell, Applebaum, Jarrett, Bach, Stevens, and a world premiere by Viet Cuong

I get my second Cali trip of the winter for the world premiere of Josep Maria Guix’s Jardin Seco in two performances of a program including works by Mozart, Tower, Coleman, and D’Rivera

I get my second Cali trip of the winter for the world premiere of Josep Maria Guix’s Jardin Seco in two performances of a program including works by Mozart, Tower, Coleman, and D’Rivera

I rejoin the wonderful KCO for Ted Hearne’s By-By Huey and Sarah Gibson’s I prefer living in color on a program with additional music by Childs, Adolphe, Bansal, and Norman

iQ brings some favorites of Lansky and Lubman along with Alex Weiser’s Two by Two and the premiere of a new Michael Laurello arrangement to this beautiful series in Reisterstown, MD

I return to Baltimore’s Thrive series, this time with my duo partner, Matt Keown, for an evening of seamless percussion music, starting with high energy hocketing drum licks and fading out towards the most intimate marimba music there is. Works by Marino, Lang, Reich, Alberto/Gorosito, Jarrett, Aperghis, Rzewski, and Andersson.

iQ works with students at the Garrison Forest School in a day-long event of outreach and education

Ensemble Mise-en completes its residency at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with premieres of student compositions

Ensemble Mise-en presents a program of of Hong Kong premieres by Rosenberger, Kyburz, Huber, and Pagh-Paan as part of their residency at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Percussion Collective performs an evening showcase concert the the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, with works by Neustadter and Reich, as well as previews of larger works by Piazzolla (arr. Neustadter) and Viñao

The Percussion Collective performs Garth Neustadter’s Seaborne on a live WXQR broadcast from The Greene Space as part of their Midday Masterpieces series with host Elliott Forrest

I join Collective artistic director Robert van Sice for an interview in anticipation of the group’s China tour and perform the duo Seeds with Matt Keown for their widely broadcast program across the US and China airwaves

I return to one of my favorite places, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, to reunite with Simon Carrington and the incredible instrumentalists, singers, and conductors for a few days of music making that culminate in a final concert, including a world premiere by Liliya Ugay and a work for percussion solo and choir by Chen Yi

I'm excited to serve on the faculty of this new percussion workshop in DC alongside some great musicians from the jazz and pop world as well as from the Baltimore and National Symphonies

Svet Stoyanov, Matt Keown, and I will play a family show of percussion music as part of a collaboration between the BSO and Port Discovery at Power Plant Live!

I'll be opening up this show with Thierry De Mey's delightful trio, Musique de Table, with percussionists Svet Stoyanov and Matt Keown as part of the Baltimore Symphony's second annual New Music Festival