An intense start to the summer with the premiere of my new piece for vocalizing pianist and actor, Partizan, on the Alba Music Festival. Thanks to Lorenzo Marasco, pianist, who was a great sport in his ‘roles’, to Guido Tonini Bossi, a marvelous actor from Turin, to the author Beppe Fenoglio, and to the Fondazione Ferrero. We packed the Chiesa di San Giuseppe in Alba for the performance and hope to bring it to LA and elsewhere.

I will soon be hosting the Chromelodeon in my home (instrument built by Harry Partch), it always sings to me and will be an immense inspiration for completing my opera Huxley’s Last Trip, with librettists Gerd Stern and Ed Rosenfeld.

I’m embarking on a new opera, This Lingering Life, with the celebrated librettist Mark Campbell, and the astonishing playwright, Chiori Miyagawa. An upcoming residency at Banff will provide a welcome three weeks for moving forward. Other summer projects include a piece in response to a Debussy Etude for the terrific LA-based pianist, Marc Robson, and a new work for the flute/percussion duo Wave Dash—for stellar musicians Camilla Hoitenga and Magdalena Meitzner.