WEMC’s Airplay graciously will be promoting my upcoming concert at UVA. They will be playing my performance of Beethoven’s clarinet trio with Trio Dolce.

Airplay can be heard on 91.7 on Sundays and Tuesdays at 7p and Thursdays at 1p, and online at http://media.wmra.org/wemcplayer.html.

I’m really excited to perform the Mozart Requiem with the Virginia Consort March, 5 2017 at 3:30pm in Old a Cabell Hall. 

I love love love this piece so much. Did I mention I love this piece. Sadly I won’t be playing basset horn but the clarinet part is still lovely. If you don’t know the Mozart Requiem (shame on you 😉) you can listen below. 

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be performing a concert of contemporary Canadian clarinet works as part of the UVA Chamber Music Series. With the generous support of the UVA Faculty of Arts and Sciences, I will be joined by my colleague with whom I have collaborated with numerous times, pianist Rory Cowal. The concert will be held February, 26 2017 at 3:30 in Old Cabell Hall on the Grounds of UVA. This will be an exciting program of diverse Canadian music. For more details and tickets click here 

Stay tuned for even more exciting details related to this concert. 😀

This January I will be performing the Mozart Kegelstatt Trio with Ayn Balija and Peter D’Elia. Also on the same program I will be performing Milton Barnes’ Anerca II: The Raven and the Children with Ibby Roberts. The concert is January 28th at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall on the Grounds of the University of Virginia. More details available here. 

I will be performing a Friday, October 7. See below for details. 

I have been featured as a UVIC alumni. Check out the video

I will be performing October 16th with EcoSono in Washington DC. We will be performing The Ceiling Floats Away with music by Matthew Burtner and Poetry by Rita Dove. This is a beautiful work with includes interactive electronics.

More details here

Here are a few photos of the Farrelly Ensemble performing at Bundanon Trust and performing at the Unbound Festival. Recordings coming soon (I hope).

I will coordinating the wind program for the Orchestra North Summer Program in Smithers, British Columbia this August. This will be an exciting two weeks of music making. The first week will be a the wind academy program which will feature a wind chamber music tour of Kitimat, Prince George, and Terrace. The second week will be a community program. I will be performing on the wind academy tour and in the faculty wind quintet. Click here for more information about Orchestra North.

The Farrelly Ensemble is an international trio featuring Australian flutist Michal Rosiak, Canadian clarinetist Shawn Earle, and American cellist Maureen Kelly. The Farrelly Ensemble is thrilled to be artists-in-residence at Bundanon Trust from June 15-29 2016 and will be featured in the Unbound Flute Festival in Brisbane July 1st 2016. The Farrelly Ensemble is committed to cross-cultural learning through the exploration of music from of their respective countries. Their 2016 program will include two new commissions by Australian composer Stephen Cronin, American composer Greg Bartholomew, and Canadian composer Omar Daniel’s Dreams of the Panther.

The Albemarle Ensemble will be playing a concert in Culpeper, VA May 22. We will be playing works by Beethoven, Rossini, Barthe, Auric, Piazzolla and more. More details to come.

I will be joining the Virginia Consort to performer John Rutter’s Requiem March 6th at 3:30pm in Old Caball Hall at UVA. I’m thrilled to be invited and have perform Rutter for the first time!

I have added tips on creating a great embouchure/tone to the UVA Clarinet Studio website. Click here to check it out!!!

I’m really excited to be joining EcoSono Feb 28th for a performance of The Ceiling Floats Away by Matthew Burner (music) and Rita Dove (poetry) as part of the Intersections Festival. I’m thrilled to be involved in such an innovative project! I won’t attempt to explain the project for fear of getting it wrong, but please read more on it here.

The performance will be Feb. 28th at the Atlas Performing Arts Centre in Washington D.C

My first concert with the Charlottesville Symphony is coming up soon. Feb. 20th at 8pm in Old Caball Hall on UVA Grounds, and Feb 21st at 3:30pm at the MLK Jr. Centre for Performing Arts. It should be a great show featuring:

Lyadov: Polonaise in D Major, Op. 55
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88