Finding my music in iTunes
August 18, 2015A quick look in iTunes has revealed a couple of my pieces have appeared there recently. Here’s how to find them there to hear and to purchase: Vox Planetarium, recorded […]
Author: Russell Scarbrough
“Music You Should Know” – Part 2
April 23, 2015Read Part I here. Delving into another group of composers/compositions, IMO, high-school-age composition students should familiarize themselves with, here are what I call Late 20th-century Modernists. I expect a certain […]
Vox Planetarium released on Wirrpang Records
April 18, 2015I’m pleased to announce that my low-flutes-with-electronics piece Vox Planetarium, commissioned by Peter Sheridan, has just been released on Wirripang Records in Australia. The CD, entitled “Labyrinths of Lowness”, was […]
“Music You Should Know” – Part 1
April 14, 2015I have several young private composition students I teach regularly, and then during the summer I work closely with a handful of students at the Csehy Summer School of Music. […]
Whiplash
March 4, 2015Posts have been few and far between lately — too busy writing and playing! — but the erudite Ethan Iverson and I exchanged some email regarding Hank Levy and Buddy […]
Clay Jenkins performs “Tray-Bo”
November 14, 2013Here’s a recent video of Clay Jenkins performing his original tune Tray-Bo at Columbus State University in 2012. I arranged this big band chart for him a few years ago […]
Upcoming feature on Composer’s Circle
October 14, 2013I will be the featured composer of the day on ComposersCircle.com, this coming Saturday, October 19! Composers Circle is a great site to experience fresh new music of young composers […]
Bow Shock
August 20, 2013Here’s a new recording of Bow Shock, for violin and piano, featuring the Irrera Brothers. A review from the premiere performance is here.
Premiere of “Skies Over Fairport”
May 6, 2013Here is last Friday’s premiere of Skies Over Fairport, written for the combined forces of the Fairport High School Jazz Band and the SOUL-JAZZ Big Band. We concluded the program […]