Congrats to the Quintet of the Americas on another great performance of my piece “The Stuff of Comets” today at the Queens New Music Festival as well as the other terrific composers on the program.

Today We Have The Power, a documentary I recently scored about the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, is having a sneak preview screening this Friday at 6pm in NYU Bobst Library’s Avery Fisher Center.  The screening is free and will involve a talk back with the director afterwards.  The film officially premieres in Seattle early next month.

Danny Burstein

The New Voices Collective will present NEW VOICES at NYU: A Celebration of Songs by NYU Musical Theatre Writers, Past and Present April 16 at 8 PM at New York University’s Frederick Loewe Theatre.

The program will explore work by current composers in the NYU Musical Theatre writing program, as well as work by some of NYU’s famous alumni.

Recent Follies star Danny Burstein will host the evening, which will feature the talents of Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins, Nine, Music Man, Sound of Music), Rory O’Malley (Book of Mormon, Spelling Bee), Elizabeth A. Davis (Once, The 39 Steps), Drew Gehling (On a Clear Day…, The Minister’s Wife, Jersey Boys), Kate Shindle (Wonderland, Legally Blonde, Cabaret), Sally Wilfert (Make Me A Song, Spelling Bee, Assassins) and Michael Winther (Mamma Mia!, Songs from an Unmade Bed).

The artists will interpret songs by Gaby Alter, Will Aronson, Ben Bonnema, Ben Cohn & Sean McDaniel, Joey Contreras, Julianne Wick Davis, Jeremy Desmon, Vadim Feichtner, Caleb Hoyer, Jenny Giering, Dylan Glatthorn, Kait Kerrigan, Brian Lowdermilk, Brendan Milburn & Valerie Vigoda, Chris Miller, Peter Mills, Matt Sklar, Christopher Staskel, Georgia Stitt, Nathan Tysen and Sam Willmott.

The singers will be accompanied by the Director of Collaborative Piano at NYU, Grant Wenaus, with Stephen Benson on guitar, Yuiko Kamakari on violin, Ed Matthew on clarinet and Clay Ruede on cello.

Tickets, priced at $20 ($5 with a Student I.D.), are available in advance by visiting www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral/calendar, by calling (212) 352-3101 or by going to NYU Ticket Central (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South). Tickets will also be available at the door one hour prior to the performance. New York University’s Frederick Loewe Theatre is located at 35 West 4th Street.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/161025-Danny-Burstein-Rebecca-Luker-Rory-OMalley-Drew-Gehling-Kate-Shindle-Set-for-NYU-Concert

John Bambery, Michelle Dowdy, and Melissa Oropesa will be performing some of my songs this Sunday, April 1st at 9pm at Le Poisson Rouge as part of The Village Gate’s Old Fashioned Piano Party.  It’s free with no drink minimum so come on out!

Elizabeth A. Davis of the Broadway musical Once will be performing “My Life With You,” music and lyrics by Dylan Glatthorn, on Monday, April 16th at 8pm at Steinhardt’s Frederick Loewe Theatre.  The concert, “A Celebration of Songs,” is part of the New Voices Collective concert series under the artistic direction of Joel Fram.

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/2012/4/16/283440/new_voices_at_nyu_a_celebration_of_songs

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/news/03-2012/rebecca-luker-rory-omalley-kate-shindle-set-for-ne_53193.html

Quintet of the Americas woodwind ensemble will present The Heavens – The Cosmos, a concert on Saturday, March 31 – 2:00 PM at Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street in Flushing, Queens (New York, New York).

The program will include Queens composers Xinyan Li’s Mo Suo’s Burial Ceremony and Dylan Glatthorn’s The Stuff of Comets commissioned by Quintet of the Americas, Chicagoan Yao Chen’s Sfumato, a wind quintet arrangement of Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst and tangos and dances from Colombia, Mexico and Argentina.

The March 31 concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 718-661-1200, or visit http://www.quintet.org/concerts.html.

“Break A Leg,” a short film that I scored last year, took home the top prize at NYU’s New Visions and Voices Film Festival last week.  Congrats to the entire team led by director William Joseph Stribling!

I recently wrote the theme music for the web series “Continue?” where the guys from Chubby Boy Films (the guys that brought you Balrog: Behind the Glory) talk about video games.

Check out the latest episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77LV7NzKMP0

The series was also recently featured on the front page of SRK: http://shoryuken.com/2012/03/01/continue-episode-8-whatever-happened-to-street-fighter-i-characters/

The Quintet of the Americas will be premiering my new wind quintet “The Stuff of Comets” this Saturday, February 4th at Symphony Space.

It is part of the Music of Now Marathon with my work being performed during the 8:30-9:30 time slot.  I will also be (briefly) interviewed by WQXR host Terrance McKnight prior to performance.

Tickets: $15

http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6944-the-music-of-now-marathon

Symphony Space is located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025-6990.  Take the 1, 2, or 3 trains.