Since the première at Lincoln Center, Río Bravo has undergone a significant revision. The aim, as ever, is to make the piece as effective as possible for the widest possible range of performers. This claim may seem questionable given the pervading technical difficulty in most of my work. But the […]
Río Bravo is a piece for large chamber ensemble, of eleven minutes’ duration. It was commissioned by Joel Sachs for his New Juilliard Ensemble. The size and makeup of the ensemble are similar to those in Notes from Underground, the work I wrote in 2015 to poems by Sean O’Brien. […]
21 April 2016 Río Bravo (première)New Juilliard EnsembleConductor: Joel SachsAlice Tully HallLincoln CenterNew York
Darragh rehearsingMunirando II for violin and piano was written in 1998 for a virtuoso player based in New York; it may be kinder not to name them, even though I have great respect and fondness for them. In the late 1990s I had a happy association with New York’s Juilliard […]