Performance & Discography

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE:
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Cayuga Chamber Orchestra,  permanent member, 1986-present

Tom Mank, original collaborations / blues, folk, 1999-present

Water Bear- 2006-present

Mansfield University Piano Trio, 2000-2005

Ithaca Piano Trio, spring concert tours, 1992-1997

Chiron Festival of the Creative Spirit,  annual and bi-annual concerts featuring new music, art, poetry and dance,1988-2000

Hesterian Musicism, experimental  and interdisciplinary
improvisation, Cornell  University,1993-2000

Smolen and Mank on Radio Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2005

Composer's Festival Orchestra, premiering new works, Cornell University, 1986-2003

Annual Solo Recitals, 1975-2005

Syracuse Symphony, Substitute, 1982-present

Skinny Reed and the Quadritones: original music, blues, folk, 1999-2001

Ramayana: Theater production broadcast to 16 countries, combining improvisation and written music, 1989.  Broadcast from India in 1990

Ithaca Violoncello Quartet, 1985-1988

Entre Act: guitar, violin, cello trio,  1985-1990

Summer Music Festivals, Shreveport, LA, guest artist, 1980-1986, 1996

RECORDINGS:

Where the Sun meets the Blue, original collaborations with Tom Mank 2007

Secrets and Revelations, original compositions by Christopher Morgan Loy, 2006

Souls of Birds, original collaborations with Tom Mank, 2004

Timbre Harvest, original compositions by Forrest Larson, 2001

Conversations in Waves, original collaborations with Tom Mank, 2001

Almost Time, original collaborations with Tom Mank, 2000

Harmonious Soul Scenes, Karlton Hester and Hesterian Musicism, 2000

The Way of Creation, Betsy Bevan,1999

Improvising Chamber Music Sampler, Music For People, with David Darling-1998

Some Big Town, original songs by Tom Mank, 1994

Barefoot in the Grapes, original collaborations with Aro Veno, 1991

The Ithaca Violoncello Quartet, 1987

The Celestial Hawk (Syracuse Symphony with Keith Jarret)

Recordings with the SYDA Foundation: The Bliss of Freedom, 1988 Hare Rama,1988 Om Guru,1988 Sounds of Light,1991 Jaya Jaya Shiva Shambho,1993 Om Namah Shivaya, 1993 Raga Taranga, 1996 Sri Guru Sarika, 1997 Om Namo Bhagavate Muktananda, 1997

World Premiers with Dedications:

Scenes From a Secret Reality,Op. 53 for cello and piano, by Christopher Morgan Loy, 2006

As Far as the Crow Can Fly for cello and electronic tape, by Forrest Larson, 1999

Madrigal in Spring for piano trio, by Christopher Kaufman,1997

Luces Alteres for cello, four gongs and percussion, by Christopher Morgan Loy, 1995

Canto for cello and piano, by Christopher Kaufman, 1994

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