https://www.michaelharleybassoon.com/listen daily 0.75 2017-08-27 https://www.michaelharleybassoon.com/photos daily 0.75 2022-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1523658808904-G4R4W4P74MN0XS4VDL5K/MHCleveland.jpeg Photos - Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1523658808904-G4R4W4P74MN0XS4VDL5K/MHCleveland.jpeg Photos - Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1630978194714-CEN7GAT486R9278D1FUA/image.jpg Photos - Bald Cypress Bald Cypress solo from Brad Balliett’s Arboretum, performed in the Congaree National Park, April 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1565832488202-6XN4J14W5YO70TU8UXVU/IMG_1341.JPG Photos - Dark in the Song with Brad Balliett Saxton, Lynn, Mike, Rachael, Brad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1565832551212-0XOD2MC7ANC5T8GBSJ42/IMG_1321.JPG Photos - 2019 NewBassoon Institute, Chestertown, MD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1565832608611-FQW6JP26EWZ0RROCEVV2/IMG_1243.JPG Photos - World Premiere of Arboretum, by Brad Balliett At the Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD, June 6 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1485766799959-5ZQOB0TJ5M2T574H3ZMV/MHNationalSawdust.jpg Photos - At National Sawdust, January 2017 Performance of David Smooke's 21 Miles to Coolville https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480124455114-77P45RIG4ICS684E46FP/Harley_ZappaPic.jpg Photos - Zappa and the bassoon I don't want to say how old this picture is (but I don't have any gray hair yet!) Don’t worry, the obligatory bassoon action shots are over and the pictures are more interesting from now on … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548865993994-BEYF8N1UN8HZ37DU5B1B/8dcd1b13-f7b1-4f33-a113-ded28842b08d.jpg Photos - Alarm Will Sound and Medeski Martin and Wood Brooklyn Steel Winter Jazzfest, January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952152369-QZMISAB7AWD8HP0NMBOZ/IMG_0100.jpg Photos - Take a bow Billy Martin of Medeski Martin & Wood leading the crowd (of 2000+) and AWS in an impromptu encore. Brooklyn Steel, January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548955249695-UUU8RRGB1YO14FVZOAUJ/IMG_1547.JPG Photos - Selfie with Scott Weiss Following the recording, with the UofSC Wind Ensemble, of Nico Muhly’s Reliable Sources. Nov. 17, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952129389-M3Y03VG5BTPBTAE3BCIT/IMG_1552.JPG Photos - Bassoons and such Sydney and Trevor, following the Muhly premiere recording. Nov. 17, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548951980824-25RHE0P8DX5JCXALEP1G/IMG_1420.JPG Photos - 10,000 Birds, Vancouver, Oct. 2018 Prior to a performance of JLA’s work at the 2018 College Music Society National Conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952000991-RLPGGXXGVNN8SSB2DW24/IMG_1267.JPG Photos - Backstage - Paul Simon Concert in Atlanta Thanks to Hideaki, Nadia, Mark, everyone in yMusic—an amazing opportunity to take my family to hear my musical idol. Sept 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548953208873-SZ6PZ9FM0VOKK66M5QK4/IMG_1285.JPG Photos - yMusic with Paul Simon “Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war …”. Seeing people I know and make music with, playing iconic songs onstage with my musical hero — what an extraordinary thing. Atlanta, Sept. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548954537027-4563MA388Z4YU8FY5JUD/IMG_1110.JPG Photos - Above the Albaicin Granada, Spain, Aug. 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548955351115-YO8ISK83ICC2TIKI1D2X/IMG_1180.JPG Photos - At The Alhambra, Granada, Spain, August 2018 One of the many exquisite details inside the Alhambra. Thank you, IDRS! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548951970234-T0VHK6TZIF30OOCK30MT/IMG_1037.JPG Photos - The New Yankee Stadium Before my first Yankees game (boo, Yankees) — with Stefan Freund and Miles Brown of AWS. August 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952162450-748CECK1GGHBP0FWAFTR/IMG_0916.jpg Photos - A surprise for Jeanne At the Sinquefield Reserve, July 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952021498-E5SC4FZBM5R3VNGQ2737/IMG_0513.JPG Photos - Can you say "nontraditional rehearsal space"? At the NewBassoon Institute, June 2018. Virtually EVERY business in town embraces and hosts the Institute and National Music Festival …. Rachael Elliott is coaching a bassoon quartet, including UofSC’s Kevin O’Brien, right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548865796731-5D8WHJ3YUIH2IA3FH488/NewBassoonJune18.jpg Photos - 2018 NewBassoon Institute, Chestertown, MD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952039452-VTYCQ6005IDYP4PCTL2F/IMG_0254.JPG Photos - Beijing Central Conservatory AWS onstage, pre-show, at the Beijing Modern Festival, May 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952091347-YHPZWH17LRP962ZLC0H0/IMG_0258.JPG Photos - Pre-concert meal AWS conductor Alan Pierson, second from left, flanked by composers Zhou Long and Chen Yi. May 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952077886-70BK89TVUIHMZN8KAO8A/IMG_0298.JPG Photos - Nanning Concert Hall, May 2018 An astounding new building, in a seemingly empty neighborhood surrounded by seemingly empty new skyscrapers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952067778-RS8WOQKQZ5H3PE50TG1H/IMG_0236.JPG Photos - The obligatory Great Wall of China picture It really is THAT spectacular …. May, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1548952126468-Z42WB0VSY169QI1I066Q/IMG_0347.JPG Photos - Facedown Alan engages with a monkey in a park outside of Nanning, Guangxi Province. May 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1523567152257-4R68W6951RX1153CMU8U/30572041_10214611382745683_1529168068937576410_n.jpg Photos - With composers Valerie Coleman and Jeff Scott before the Richard Greener Tribute Concert, April 2018 World premieres of "A Pilgrim's Opus" (Scott) and "Glory" (Coleman). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1523566611930-1KVG5MRXEU94136SHTPO/IMG_1294.JPG Photos - Richard Greener Tribute Concert, April 2018 L-R Becky Nagel (ob), Tonya Mitchell (cond), Isaiah Hogue (narr), Jennifer Parker-Harley (fl), Valerie Coleman (composer), Jeff Scott (composer), Kendrick Williams (baritone), MH, JD Shaw (horn), Joe Eller (cl) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1523566647312-A7OV7QDUEEP8JWBH2HJA/IMG_1229.JPG Photos - 2017-18 USC Bassoon Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1511968610809-J3BXGIP7SN3OTSLZ54K8/IMG_0577.jpg Photos - Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1511967509677-YJH6M9CLPL6AEL8333BW/IMG_0570.jpg Photos - At Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, for a performance of JLA's 10,000 Birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1511968701432-5620PMYT88MGM91LH6QE/IMG_0620.JPG Photos - Southern Exposure New Music Series With invoke string quartet and composers David Kirkland Garner, Steve Snowden, Ian Dicke, and Takuma Itoh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1481036085079-0ZOMALRSA6YLM0U8L86G/ImaniIntro.JPG Photos - Southern Exposure intro, Oct. 2016 The USC recital hall was packed -- note the folks seated onstage! -- for this phenomenal concert by the Imani Winds, Visiting Scholars at USC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1481036090426-TPNA9G2ZOFNU1PQG9AP4/Listening.JPG Photos - Performers, listening Listening to the archival folk recording of "All the Pretty Horses" David Garner's beautiful new work for double wind quintet (Imani Winds and USC faculty) is based on prior to its premiere on Southern Exposure. The composer is at left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371635183-KKZ7WCWACVYDWC72UCLR/IMG_9398.JPG Photos - With Afghan pianist and composer Milad Yousufi, after "The Hunger" at BAM, Sept. 2016 Milad's life story is absolutely amazing, and reads like a Hollywood movie script. He first learned piano by drawing a picture of a keyboard on paper and "playing"; his concerts were targeted by the Taliban. Fortunately he is now in the USA; his story is the subject of a new work by composer Mary Kouyoumdjian, the beginning of which AWS premiered at in Missouri, summer 2016. Milad's immigration lawyer happens to be my cousin-in-law's sister! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480373532651-X7HX3C6JTXBT01XO9Z1Y/The-Hunger_Kate-Manley-Alarm-Will-Sound_PC-Jack-Vartoogian-2--1030x688.jpg Photos - A scene from Donnacha Dennehy's chamber opera "The Hunger." Alarm Will Sound at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sept. 2016. Mezzo soprano Kate Manley at left. This opera is gorgeous -- some of my all-time favorite music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480536633369-QVH2M4TEO7W2G5MGTY93/Donnacha.jpg Photos - With composer Donnacha Dennehy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371666262-RJTVCI0OZOFAEYCODL3C/IMG_9380.JPG Photos - Nico Muhly and Nadia Sirota perform at Subculture. Nadia's CD release party, Sept. 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371693222-8AIG94EW2GSM1B1UZ191/IMG_9357.JPG Photos - Filming an episode from Lisa Bielawa's made-for-TV opera, "Vireo." Garrison Institute, near Peekskill, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371873153-0B62C95ZZEYZURILZ3NV/IMG_9359.JPG Photos - Courtney Orlando and Matt Marks as "Rosie the Riveter" and "Policeman" Lisa Bielawa's "Vireo," Garrison Institute, Sept. 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1481309383713-IXU74SJ0TBTXBGLTXWSR/Farmer.JPG Photos - "The Farmer" (and the phone booth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371582515-BH343Y740LG5OXI84LET/IMG_8910.JPG Photos - A bassoon's-eye view. John Luther Adams' 10,000 Birds, atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371598035-LAN13F8SETHHBS1CNOS8/IMG_8891.JPG Photos - Matt Marks 10,000 Birds, Cleveland Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371562896-0M6EW1NK8MHT3RTXK47T/IMG_8475.JPG Photos - Euro-cool Donau Festival, Krems, Austria, May 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480971016139-4DUIU1K530D9YI8B8R32/cover_EighthBlackbird.jpg Photos - Eighth blackbird at Indie Grits / Southern Exposure Columbia Riverwalk, Apr. 14, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480971251114-WUW7HUJEUI96Z57ZPWOI/SouthernExp21CM.JPG Photos - GA Rachel Whelan, MH, sound engineer Jeff Francis Southern Exposure named a "POP pick" for our 2015-16 season by 21cm.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480630798237-LT0Q8SD3JVKEC51W0O8T/IMG_8137.JPG Photos - With my American Music class, Apr 2016 - Church Street (outside the spot that inspired "Porgy and Bess") Music and architecture Charleston, SC -- walking tour led by the extraordinarily knowledgeable Nic Butler, far left. A tour with Nic is like walking through the Charleston of the 18th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480630694618-DNJ6FQJMNQGNH4L0HC5U/IMG_7862.JPG Photos - With composer Scott Johnson Boston, Feb. 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480630784144-VB0550CKYYN0ZPNM3LD0/IMG_7886.JPG Photos - Recording session, Scott Johnson's "Mind Out of Matter" New York, Feb. 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480643997465-Z1NFPQTA90G1I9BHVBKW/IMG_5488.JPG Photos - Cincinnati bassoon reunion With friends Mark Ortwein and Eric Stomberg, IDRS NYC 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480371629256-SWS55QQ61UTAWCNZVMXY/IMG_8978.JPG Photos - The saddest time of the summer: leaving Interlochen! August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480630664437-JARXRYPUC09WVI3BYS4F/IMG_6807.JPG Photos - Not a bad spot for a concert Interlochen, July 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480372936743-JWWPGHA424DTWJG0O9N0/FullSizeRender.jpg Photos - Masterclass with Judy LeClair, principal bassoon, New York Philharmonic. Interlochen Center for the Arts, summer 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480372393061-HQH0K2WVF60YJ1KMEOXQ/Lake+Overlook.jpg Photos - View from the patio of the Lake House, Sinquefield Reserve, Westphalia, MO. Not a bad place to rehearse! We are based here to prepare for the Mizzou International Composer's festival, held each July at the University of Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526275575-G1VM07UXL5P8P38D1FVK/Mike+Lakehouse.jpg Photos - Mike Clayville, AWS trombonist and social media guru, at the Lake House. Sinquefield Reserve, Westphalia MO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480535612761-HKRBBOG2PRIUB3WXB9D2/Sinquefield+-+big+house.jpg Photos - The Big House Sinquefield Reserve, Westphalia MO. We actually get to stay here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526421861-4GMNYRVEUX0RM7K0RS00/IS6A3824.CR2.jpg Photos - "You don't have to put on the red light..." Do I look stressed? Yeah, maybe I am: about to play the ridiculous contra part in Ades's "Living Toys," Mizzou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480537321501-DI9ETAG694GDXX699FC8/ART+at+Mizzou.jpg Photos - ART approves! Augusta Read Thomas at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480542205243-E47D0XG1U2FDR3LQMZHP/Stucky+at+Mizzou.jpg Photos - Composer Steven Stucky At Mizzou, July 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480540527869-I3Z38DLXEGYMORQIF2EL/roger+reynolds.jpg Photos - Pulitzer-winning composer Roger Reynolds and soprano Susan Narucki, Mizzou, July 2011 The coolest thing: hearing Roger talk about hanging out with John Cage, and hearing a garage full of player pianos at Conlon Nancarrow's place in Mexico City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480632075591-ETGUQEQ0GWNE38C9VCRX/IMG_5450.JPG Photos - Honorary Canucks L-R Stefan, Mike, Caleb, Gavin -- finalists in Canada Games, an annual Mizzou tradition. It's even more ridiculous than it sounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480538515762-NQ01ZNW7Y1PFBLCCND5V/SubstandardFullSizeRender+3.jpg Photos - Old train station, Seoul, South Korea Venue for AWS performances in April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480538503684-R3Q63RATFYRF3WEDPZ8S/SubstandardFullSizeRender+4.jpg Photos - Doug Balliett and Stefan Freund amidst cherry blossoms Seoul, South Korea, April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480538511115-VDA2Q415MC59Q5XES1BS/SubstandardFullSizeRender.jpg Photos - Fish market, Seoul Without doubt, this giant seafood market -- one of the world's largest -- was a highlight of our Korea trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480538512942-HRICT43PB3KRF46X3KYJ/SubstandardFullSizeRender+2.jpg Photos - Gavin digs in. AWS managing director Gavin Chuck. This was AFTER we ate the live octopus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480629868621-GWJ4QOY8JEN7YEOV4JBX/Cleveland+State+2015.jpg Photos - A large setup AWS seems to occupy a lot of space. Cleveland State U., March 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480630721241-3SBRIW5Q2JFETHUV48MR/FullSizeRender+2.jpg Photos - With bassoonist Lecolion Washington Memphis, March 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480540569870-KL8IUZLLMAPTSRC9YOKA/IMG_8623.sjpg_640_403_0_95_1_50_50.sjpg.jpeg Photos - L-R Erin Lesser, Hideaki Aomori, Chris Thompson, Beth Stimpert, me AWS in Boulder, Colorado with Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Feb. 2015. Does Beth always play her clarinet that way? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480542209855-IKDFOTJ6TR4QBAIMGOWW/Antonio+Bananas.jpg Photos - AWS flutist Erin Lesser and her friend Antonio Bananas Denver CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526394359-CLLNXVZTDOP22GOYK30H/nyc+skyline+sunset.jpg Photos - Manhattan skyline One of the perks of playing in the greatest city in the world ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480699100983-91EYNUEBL3LKZ5GS68MW/AWS+carnegie+poster.jpg Photos - In good company Carnegie Hall, NYC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347901539-PH6QCTUPYKA7ZWNP1X57/IMG_8467.sjpg_640_403_0_95_1_50_50.sjpg.jpeg Photos - AWS concert at Merkin Hall, NYC Sonic Festival, October 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480631757388-POTBEF3090DHZ0K7QQN4/IMG_5625.JPG Photos - L-R Alan Pierson, composer John Adams, Christa Robinson, Beth Stimpert BAM, Sept 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480519853675-4TIK6WQIIFKK3GMWRDEG/AWS%40Met.jpg Photos - Alarm Will Sound crossing the Delaware? Courtesy of the Met Museum. It was our great privilege to be artists-in-residence at the Met in 2013-14. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347923149-VFIVGK8IDA3I8ASWCQLH/met+transit+sign.jpg Photos - My favorite sign in the bowels of the Met Museum, NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526403064-6AVAQRFWDN6SZ41FT7M7/Met+lobby.jpeg Photos - Solo lecture / performance, Met Museum April 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526411894-U30460D1ZPZE53PMM10S/MikeatMet.jpeg Photos - Oceanic Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art April 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480537304021-2YWWRSMVJ0SCJARBJWXU/IMG_5276.JPG Photos - Nubian Twins AWS violinists Caleb Burhans and Courtney Orlando played two Nubian princes who, legend has it, drowned; the temple was built on their burial spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480538943226-C7HPF6BP2CDK75IEHXK5/dendur+5.jpg Photos - AWS in the Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014 Our performance amidst the temple of Kate Soper's "I Was Here I Was I" is one of the most memorable moments of my career. The Egyptian temple, which would have been destroyed by the building of the Aswan High Dam, was moved stone by stone from Egypt to the Met in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480536615227-PQXIJ4EP3ECED0C0SYUC/met+heg+2.jpg Photos - Chaos at the Met Before show with Dance Heginbotham show, Feb. 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480629857888-0QKPC5OH1L8JXK3PN9RP/Cliffs+Rehearsal.jpg Photos - "Cliffs" staging rehearsal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480536626024-2F4XU57Y30KGK6D127OJ/met+heginbotham.jpg Photos - "Cliffs," by Aphex Twin, arr. Caleb Burhans Staging by Nigel Maister. I am wandering around singing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480536629631-CLPTLOQBZB3EB9EO5UFK/met+heg.jpg Photos - "Cliffs" staging at the Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480630674196-JLNU9ONS2CT0BFL00DYS/IMG_5749.JPG Photos - Setting up for world premiere of John Luther Adams' "10,000 Birds" St. Louis, MO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480632092823-UTYYNPZGYK1I9SLVKUI1/IMG_5747.JPG Photos - Workshopping with John Medeski St. Louis, Oct. 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347932643-ALTMJRW62ZKGHLRCGDXN/prisker+from+stage.jpg Photos - From the stage of the Prizker Pavillion, Chicago's Millennium Park AWS, July 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480372448340-5EWQ0AALQWHIOQTS48QX/graffiti+1.jpg Photos - In front of one of Buenos Aires's many beautiful murals College Music Society International Conference, June 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526418666-AVCWS3O7HZ5XNGIC4P89/graffiti+5.jpg Photos - Mao graffiti Buenos Aires, Argentina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526382459-EXTNJZQQHROPSU9NARNC/Jen+and+David.jpg Photos - Jennifer with David Cutler Beunos Aires https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480542169382-O96A517W2BJWSV0QN307/Alan+and+Steve+R.jpg Photos - Alan Pierson and Steve Reich Palo Alto, March 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480542199021-VFPXMKG7SZBNSA8D4J0G/IS6A6275.CR2.jpg Photos - Clapping Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480348023144-PWGQ2I6HD83J87RCVFJ5/radio+rewrite+stage.jpg Photos - The stage before the U.S. premiere of Reich's "Radio Rewrite," Stanford, March 2013 Always a little terrifying to play piano on this piece -- it's a hard part! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480542158475-6YG3L825MIW931A474UM/The+Cave.jpg Photos - Rehearsal for "Genesis Settings" from Reich's The Cave I get SO MUCH crap for sticking my tongue out when playing piano! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480542175305-J3FZU6L1IUU87L2VRZAU/With+Reich.jpg Photos - Backstage after NY premiere of "Radio Rewrite" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347976918-K5L91S5MOTLFHKLU3UZB/Jeff+L+at+Edisto.jpg Photos - Jeff Lyman, Edisto Island SC, Rushes rehearsals We met and rehearsed Rushes for several days (joined by Michael Gordon) at Jennifer's Uncle Johnny Parker's place on Edisto. July 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347982979-4TOMP779XLTMVVBDQTX0/MG+at+Edisto.jpg Photos - Michael Gordon interviewed on Johnny's porch, Edisto Island, SC, July 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480540759169-VW7XBP6PH0LGFJNO4SO4/IMG_3712.jpg Photos - The real Rushes Edisto Island, SC. Photo courtesy of Saxton Rose (hence it's actually a really good picture!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480540780361-UWC9VBW9SMD1CJ4VZ0F0/20120913-Rushes-53.jpg Photos - Rushes commissioner and gang-leader Dana Jessen EMPAC, Sept. 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347672870-94P8NTHZ70MU8MXW0HTZ/20120913-Rushes-19.jpg Photos - "Rushes" rehearsal, pre-EMPAC premiere, Sept. 2012 L-R Jeff Lyman, Saxton Rose, Lynn Hileman, Mike Harley, Rachael Elliott, Dana Jessen, Maya Stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480520448853-QG1P94JHA0OA2OQ1BKPM/MG+in+empac+control+room.jpg Photos - Recording Michael Gordon's "Rushes" EMPAC, Troy, NY, Sept. 2012. Michael is seated in the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526723812-RYWZ1DW5AZFEB7K4LBNQ/Vancouver+1.jpg Photos - "Rushes" in Vancouver November 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480538936624-LFGU9U2FPPA0AO4JCYDL/Rushes+in+Amsterdam.jpg Photos - What, a concert-length piece for seven bassoons? The Rushes Ensemble: me, Maya Stone, Jeff Lyman, Rachael Elliott, Lynn Hileman, Dana Jessen, Saxton Rose. Den Haag, the Netherlands, Nov. 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526774325-B5551ETNNUFOZUOV01AG/eindoven+shadow+pic.jpg Photos - Eindhoven, The Netherlands GLOW festival, 2012 ("Rushes" tour) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480534234289-E3809J4EYZ45FN6ROS1B/ned.jpg Photos - With composer Ned McGowan Amsterdam, "Rushes" tour, Nov. 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480520911058-JK7J2B01CBSRA3U6L8OA/Krakow+2013+poster.jpg Photos - In good company! Poster for the Sacrum Profanum music festival, Krakow, Poland. AWS has played a bunch at this superb festival (Septembers, 2011-14). A few pics follow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480520900714-0YPJBGG034HKIUMU5MTA/SacrumProfanumPic.jpg Photos - AWS in performance, Sacrum Profanum, Krakow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480636273502-NECT78EMIYY4A5OCBZXR/Krakow+stage.jpg Photos - Sacrum profanum stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480540761103-Q8PAQN0Z77WJ3UW8IAYJ/latest+krakow+poster.jpg Photos - Sacrum Profanum 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480372439410-1YRITL9MELKNQW537S63/Jewish+Quarter+Krakow.jpg Photos - Jewish Quarter, Krakow September 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480520443752-FJ72K6RM86ZUE7VO1VN3/Penderecki.jpg Photos - With a famous composer. We look much happier than he does! L-R Stefan Freund, me, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alan Pierson. Krakow, Poland, Sept. 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480520415386-CTI2HBC0CQWSPBCUQU62/Reich+and+Alan.jpg Photos - Meeting of The Minds Steve Reich and Alan Pierson in Krakow, Sept. 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480520928944-A9MO54Z7XRESSLRQ60M8/Street+Car+Krakow.jpg Photos - My kind of vehicle. Krakow, Poland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480534230069-BBQVAR0LXXFUKMBA2DCC/mushrooms+anyone_.jpg Photos - Mushrooms, anyone? Krakow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526691303-48NTPBA5UAX9V4KZY11R/Saarburg+Castle.jpg Photos - Saarburg castle Saarburg is lovely town in the Saar river valley, western Germany, and the home of the Saarburger Serenaden, an international chamber music festival. I was fortunate to teach there in July 2012; Jen still goes to teach most every summer, and I am incurably jealous! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526654408-5OYS3XJ0GRKONLQI3KRO/Heckel+sign.jpg Photos - Bassoon mecca I was able to visit the mothership (and my bassoon's birthplace) in Biebrich, Germany, when teaching in Saarburg, July 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480542127489-LORKHTYT65F14ERND76C/Kyle+and+Mike+at+Heckel.jpg Photos - Fagott = Bundles of Wood At the Heckel bassoon factory, with former student Kyler Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480541351736-KGJ9QM1YN6AMK6E7DUUJ/Menno+books.jpg Photos - My heritage, on a shelf Old Mennonite books. Near Saarburg, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480526693048-SBA18T3ZXX6LBDFXSKZO/Flow+your+Mind+-+Salzburg.jpg Photos - Good advice Salzburg, Austria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347915840-8I57TIQSILS0ML8JHDPJ/Morelia+w+students.jpg Photos - With Peter Kolkay, Saxton Rose, and students in Morelia, Mexico. Rodrigo Sigal is doing some amazing stuff at CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras) and was kind enough to host Dark in the Song, May 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480534218529-ZSUJF8ALLKLGW37GMW3V/Morelia+tortilla.jpg Photos - Perhaps the best part of any trip: eating! An ideal Mexican breakfast, Morelia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480372444192-9G4O36UU7XI9XAKF4DMX/Wendy+Holdaway%27s.jpg Photos - In la casa de Wendy and Alejandro, our wonderful hosts in Mexico City, May 2012 L-R around the table: Rachael Elliott, Alejandro Flores, Lynn Hileman, Peter Kolkay, and Wendy Holdaway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480347525600-LOEOQG6V5XT5VDLUEKG8/Frida+and+Diego.jpg Photos - Mexico City, May 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480539004572-QYJIVDIII3BE4HL4TG6Q/AWS+bday+cake.jpg Photos - The secret is out: you now know my AWS nickname. At least one of them. MiPHy = Mike Parker Harley. Pic from Seattle, April 26, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480629862246-JF3YEWKRZO9WXZDQTPH0/Bremen.jpg Photos - In rehearsal, Bremen, Sept 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480971868221-X81NV64N3EC00G82NWAD/1969+carnegie+poster.jpg Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480543022271-9PY1BDMZXJLCWRLXF2YI/Shirley+Yoo.jpg Photos - A memorable meal With friend and pianist Shirley Yoo, at her mom's place in Pittsburgh, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480699438034-8C4YKWQTXEEI111NATCY/Basson+Russe.jpg Photos - THAT, my friends, is a "Basson Russe" (I can't really play it, don't worry). Courtesy of Craig Kridel, friend, neighbor, serpentist (!), education prof, early instrument collector, and all-around Renaissance man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480538926943-UZ8975DCZEIQW3M0M9QF/Taylor+and+Lucia+w+dulcians.jpg Photos - Dulcians! Taylor Gable and Lucia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480699628747-PCWKFZ4NB79GQWLZ5GW2/Jen+at+Black+Mtn+College.jpg Photos - The eyes of Buckminster Fuller Black Mountain (formerly Black Mountain College), NC, the epicenter of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and early 50s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480699669083-G6ITL6D1BVHVF8S2A0GC/AlanRedSquare.jpg Photos - Mike and Alan in front of St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square Moscow, AWS Russia tour, Nov. 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480541324673-JYBK4H8EQ58JHYINVGMT/Peter+the+Great+Statue.jpg Photos - Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg Peter the Great looks to the West. Nov. 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480541329871-SAEBSA8CVQBBMITBVXZ5/Front+of+Matisse.jpg Photos - Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg Me, Miles Brown (dancing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480541333782-R9UQWUQRSK0NGUNRYRZI/Glinka+Hall.jpg Photos - AWS in Glinka Hall, St. Petersburg Nov. 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480699699460-OWUPQRFTDQSHWBS6XSYW/Tchaik+Grave+closeup.jpg Photos - Tchaikovsky's grave Tikhvin Cemetery, outside of St. Petersburg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582228da44024387a8fec34e/1480541930894-IAVGP5587YMXP4A49TV2/St.+Petersburg+Canal.jpg Photos - Canal, St. Petersburg AWS Russia tour, Nov. 2008. 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