Greetings and salutations, and welcome to the Blog portion of my site. Postings here will be extremely random; both in frequency and subject matter. Mostly I’ll be talking about upcoming projects, performances, etc. Occasionally I may write down my thoughts on different musical subjects.
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For the last 20 years, one of the great constants at the Kamloops Symphony has been Cveotzar Vutev as the Concertmaster. Last night was his final performance with the KSO in that role, and I want to congratulate and thank him for all he's done. Read the full post
Posted in Arts In Kamloops (YKA Arts) onFor the past 8 years, we have had the incredible fortune of having Dina Gilbert as the Music Director of the Kamloops Symphony, and now it has been announced that at the end of the current Season she will be stepping down from her position. Read the full post
Posted in Arts In Kamloops (YKA Arts) onA while back I was introduced to a wonderfully powerful and delightfully open-source software synthesizer, Surge XT. After helping a few friends get started with it, I was inspired to create some tutorial videos for it. Read the full post
Posted in News, Random Blurb onI was recently congratulated on my unique method of keeping the members of Slow No Tempo "in line" by recording those 1-man a cappella quartet videos. Except, that's not even remotely close to why I did it. Read the full post
Posted in Random Blurb onAfter being commissioned to record a 1-man a cappella quartet rendition of Carol of the Bells, I think I might make a few more such recordings as we head into the Christmas season. Read the full post
Posted in News onWith the latest restrictions on social gatherings, Slow No Tempo is doing the responsible thing and stopping meeting in person. We were about to record some xmas tunes together, but now we have to resurrect the Quarantet approach. Read the full post
Posted in Arts In Kamloops (YKA Arts), News onA virtual choir recording is a weird (yet totally 2020 way) to have one's debut concert as the new music director of a choir... And I am so proud of the Cantabile Singers for what they accomplished. Read the full post
Posted in Arts In Kamloops (YKA Arts), Random Blurb onTaking on the role of the music director of the Cantabile Singers of Kamloops in the middle of a global pandemic is certainly an interesting experience. I couldn't ask for a better group of humans to be going through this process with though! Read the full post
Posted in Arts In Kamloops (YKA Arts), Random Blurb onSlow No Tempo recently posted our tenth video in the ongoing Quarantet Project. As random luck would have it, this video was posted exactly 2 months after the first video: April 4 - June 4. This prompted an introspective journey about this project thus far. Read the full post
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