Classical Voice of North Carolina writes of the recently released Song Cycle: Schubert lieder transcriptions, "The performances are all outstanding." This disc of transcriptions for solo guitar (by Johann Kaspar Mertz) and for soprano and guitar (with the wonderful soprano Tony Arnold) came out in November on New Focus Recordings. It has been an amazing and humbling experience to work on this music and a gratifying chance to release a snapshot of where we were with these pieces in what will surely be a constant evolution. Special thanks to John Dana and Armin Kelly for setting me up with a beautiful Bernhard Kresse 19th century Stauffer copy guitar. Check out preview clips and if you like, download or order the recording here.

I'm happy to be part of this year's Ball State Guitar Festival in Indiana. The recital program I'll play includes music by Bach, Schubert/Mertz, Carter, Davidovsky, Henze, and Albeniz.

Final editing and post-production are finishing up on a recording of the music of Dai Fujikura featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) on the German label Kairos. The recording includes Sparks for solo classical guitar, the newly written Sparking Orbit for electric guitar and electronics, and ICE which features guitar, percussion, and flute in a larger ensemble work. It should be available in Fall 2013.

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Red Light New Music invited me to guest curate and perform in a program of theirs on April 20 at the Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn. The concert, titled "Discretionary Music" will feature works that leave some parameters to performer discretion in the moment. Works by Peter Gilbert, Douglas Boyce, Scott Wollschleger, Liam Robinson, Bruno Maderna, John Zorn, and John Adams will be on the program, with guest video footage provided by Memo Salazar.

I recently completed recording Andrew Violette's hour long Sonata for guitar, written in a beautful neo-Baroque style, complete with Fugue and Chaconne movements. It has been edited and and a commercial recording is forthcoming, but in the meantime, it is posted in two parts on youtube, here and here.

Mice Parade has been experimenting with a leaner formation, an "acoustic trio" setup that opens things up a bit. We just finished a two week tour in the U.S., and I played opening sets of my own music for amplified classical guitar and effects, and we'll play shows in Japan and the West Coast in May. Here's a sample of one of those songs, called Village Song, in a version for electric guitar.

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