Artist’s Notes
This recording grows directly out of a life lived in new music. Rather than a retrospective, it offers a snapshot in time: a record of how I currently inhabit these pieces, how I hear them, and how I hope they might continue to circulate among listeners, performers, and future generations The program brings together long-term artistic partnerships and works I have lived with for decades alongside newer collaborations that have quickly become essential to my musical practice.
Several of these works reflect sustained collaborative relationships. Sidney Corbett’s Canticle extends a long-standing artistic dialogue and deep friendship. Mari Takano’s Elegy arrived unexpectedly as a gift a gesture of trust and generosity I had long intended to document Benjamin Fuhrman’s Sirens, introduced to me by a former student, is a work I have performed for nearly twenty years; it remains physically demanding, virtuosic, and consistently compelling.
The program also marks newer chapters and evolving voices Osnat Netzer’s Olive Cotton, transcribed for viola from its original cello version, offered an opportunity to engage closely with her unique compositional voice Tonia Ko’s Moves and Remains, encountered shortly after we both arrived in Chicago, is a work I have explored in depth and believe merits far wider attention Finally, I chose to record Jeffrey Mumford’s an expanding distance of multiple voices the sole work here with an extensive performance history because I felt I could contribute a distinct, personal interpretive perspective to its complex and sensual landscape.
At its core, this CD is a meditation on interpretation and transmission. As both a performer and a teacher, I see recording as a means of carrying these works forward preserving not only the music itself, but the relationships, histories, and questions embedded within it In sending this recording into the world, my hope is that these works will continue to be heard, loved, and played