Music

My research residency confirmed again how the direct, unfiltered experience of examining an artifact creates a moment of connection, empathy, wonderment and expansion similar to the moments of shared experience in a live performance. A chance for a fuller narrative opens up, independent of interpretive trends, making way for me as a dramatist to offer general audiences new emotional, creative identifications and understandings, experienced through the electricity of shared discovery.

When I arrived at the AAS August-September 2012 for my creative artist fellowship, I had some idea of the breadth and unique profile of the musical manuscripts in the AAS collection (over 70,000 scores, some of which are unique copies). I could not have known, however, about the incredibly helpful and knowledgeable archivists, librarians, and program coordinators, with whom I would work every day.

Sanctuary

A violin concerto for violinist Jennifer Koh that premiered in January 2020 with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.