During this residency I will give a talk on my music to the composition and performance students. Following this in the evening will be a concert featuring my two piano work CASCADE, as a guest of amazing pianist Dr. Liudmila Georgievskaya. Very excited for this visit and performance!
Brilliant composer John Mackey visits the CCM Composition Symposium to present his music.
Finishing the Wind Orchestra Masters Vol. 3 recordings with the University of Northern Colorado Wind Ensemble conducted by Wesley Broadnax. This is really going to be great!
Aaron Larget Caplan plays my CLOUD LACHRYMAE for guitar and electronics at the University of New Hampshire, Durham in a brilliant recital of contemporary works for guitar!
In Prague for two days of recording at the iconic Smecky Studios in the heart of Prague. With an amazing array of new works we are really looking forward to this!
Recording my work for Guitar and Electronics with brilliant guitarist Aaron Larget Caplan at the wonderful WGUC studios in Cincinnati.
Prof. Diogo Carvalho (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) delivers lecture on Small Business Creation to my class Professional Aspects of a Composition Career at CCM.
SONGS OF MUSIC - World Premiere
Joshua Knehans, Tenor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Back in Glasgow for yet another recording with RSNO and superb British composers Symon Clarke. These are sure to be awesome sessions with stunning and individualistic new music of real power and punch and elegance coupled with the dynamic precision of the RSNO! Looking forward to producing this one!
Exciting second year of the Thessaloniki Art and Music Summit! This year focused on CHAMBER MUSIC workshopped and played by NO EXIT ensemble of Cleveland, USA and featuring studio rehearsals and recording sessions for ABLAZE Records with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. Proudly presented by ABLAZE Records in partnership with Global Arts United.
Excited to work again with RSNO but this is the first time on standard repertoire! Chopin’s beautiful first concerto with piano powerhouse Sophia Agranovich! What a thrill!!
ABLAZE records its FOURTEENTH volume of new and exciting contemporary orchestral music from composers from around the world!
Robert Miller interviews Douglas about his life, career, new recordings and more. Air date announced soon!
A week of meetings and re-acquaintances with students and colleagues before the start of classes. It’s going to be a great year!
I am thrilled to be interviewed about my compositions, my record company and producing, and about the Thessaloniki Art and Music Summit in this terrific podcast!
When I was in Thessaloniki, Greece, I had the lovely pleasure of being interviewed by Kervy Delcy for ECHELON Magazine. It is a fascinating read where I responded to some unusually interesting and probing questions. Out Today at 3pm.
Link Below.
Discussing my new work for his THE LULLABY PROJECT Whisper Memory for solo guitar. What a great collaboration!!!
Amazing and creative sessions with Tina for more photos for my upcoming DARK CITY disc with Zuill Bailey and the RSNO
Today we record my five love songs of Kenneth Patchen with the brilliantly talented bass-baritone Cody Quattlebaum. Very excited to work on these with him and to do so at the fantastic WGUC studios right here in Cincinnati!
Tonight brilliant bass-baritone Cody Quattlebaum and Michael Delfin will rehearse my A PATCHEN CYCLE. This is a set of five love poems I set for my wife a number of years ago and this will be preparation for the first studio recording of them.
Jennet Ingle interview for Crushing Classical will look at my work methods, my pieces, performances and recording and a few other aspects of my career.
“Crushing Classical is an entrepreneurship and empowerment podcast for classical musicians. Host Jennet Ingle interviews classical musicians who are forging unique paths with their talent, creating their own artistic fulfillment and financial comfort, and finding ways to thrive.”
A great conversation about my new work HURRICANE piano concerto No. 2 which Michael and I are working on together. What an amazing collaborator! Stay tuned this piece is going to rock the house!
Great to catch up with this wonderful musician. Trying to figure out new projects—very exciting!
Ten new works over seven session across the week. Looking forward to all of these new pieces and working with the orchestra again!
Homing in on the details of Alvin’s Contemporary Chinese Composers Project. Brilliant and exciting!!
Beautiful breakfast meeting with pianist Sophia Agranovich
And here we go! The first year of the Thessaloniki Art and Music Summit. Seventeen composers, two conductors, one soloist, one orchestra. Two concerts. EXCITING DAYS!!
Finishing my second piano concerto HURRICANE!
Event Details
Concert: Charles Neidich and CompCord String Quartet
Composers: Seth Boustead, Dan Cooper, Charles Coleman, Debra Kaye, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Douglas Knehans, Carman Moore, Audrey Morse, Charles Neidich, Gene Pritsker, Marina Vesic
Performers: Charles Neidich - clarinet
CompCord String Quartet Funda Cizmecioglu, Mark Zaki - violins, Artie Dibble - viola, Sahara von Hattenberger - cello
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026
Time: 7pm
Venue: Jim Kempner Fine Art
501 West 23rd Street, NYC
An inspiring and energizing visit by the iconic Pamela Z—great concerts and really instructive and inspiring demonstrations!
Another wonderful day of mixing this brilliant album so beautifully sung by CORO VOLANTE!
Thanks to the invitation from ConcertNova, the Icarus Quartet visits CCM again—their first visit since they came here to play my commissioned work TRANSPARENT WAVES. Exciting to see them again!
Working with my partner in crime brilliant engineer Dave Yost on the final mixes of New Choral Voices Vol. 8!!
Spectacular cellist Alvin Wong and I discuss his first CD for ABLAZE Records: a brilliant disc featuring all Chinese composers! YES!!!
VERY Excited to meet Maria and explore having her as part of the first edition of THAMS!
We talk and speak with so many composers. SO HAPPY to have such enthusiasm around the first edition of THAMS!
SO MANY details go into planning for a huge two week residential event half way around the world! It is so much fun and SO MANY threads to weave this great tapestry!!
The talent never stops and we have enjoyed a full season of interviews for the first ever THAMS!
Figuring out with Cody Quattlebaum if we can strategize to record my Patchen Songs this summer!
It must seem like an AWFUL lot of mixing! However, this work is EPIC: FIVE movements for a total of 45 minutes for the whole work… yes, we need time for this mix!
It is amazing what a mental map one creates of all of the varied composition practices and ambitions of young composers. These interviews are fueling us as much as the applicants!!
We are talking to some AMAZING young composers through these interviews. The first edition of THAMS is looking STRONG!
