Lexington Concert Cancelled

The concert is cancelled!

If you were planning on braving the weather to see us play new music, then you are awesome. Please stay home and be safe! We'll reschedule for September.

For those of you who donated on Kickstarter, CDs and downloads will be sent out on Monday. For everyone else, CDs will go on sale through www.zachherchen.com starting late next week.

Keeping an eye on hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene is expected to reach Massachusetts just in time for our concert (thanks mother nature). Sunday morning we will check the latest weather report. If we need to cancel or move the concert we will post here, on our Facebook event page, and send emails.

It's All Happening!

And we're off!  

The CD release is upon us. Join us on Sunday, August 28th in Lexington, MA.


The concert kicks off at 2pm at Follen Church located at 755 Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington, Massachusetts.  Tickets are $10. 

Elisabeth and Zach will perform works from their  new CD, all of which were commissioned by and written for the performers. As you all know by now, "Emerging Voices" features three young American composers: Kathleen Bader, Adam Knauss and George Lam.  There will be a reception in the Community Center afterward, and CDs will be available for purchase!

Hope to see you there!

New Music in Hand

This weekend we received our third score and have all the music for our CD in hand! Here's the breakdown:

Adam Knauss - Portrait
-soprano and bari sax

Kathleen Bader - Two Songs for the Sounds Outside
-soprano and alto sax
-two movements: "The Stars Are Laughing" and "Hush"

George Lam, libretto by Benjamin Rogers - The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone
-soprano, alto sax, and tape
-prologue, 5 chapters, and epilogue

I'll post detailed info on each piece as we record them. Many thanks to our composers for their hard work!

One Down

Over the last two weeks we have been recording and editing Lori Laitman's I Never Saw Another Butterfly! We are nearly finished with her piece and will be tackling Adam Knauss' new composition throughout May. It feels great to start recording! Now we just gotta learn the three new pieces...

Congratulations to Amy Beth Kirsten!

This month Amy Beth Kirsten was named a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of a Levy Supplemental Stipend for music composition. You can read the press release here. Way to go Amy!

Amy is one of four composers writing music for our Emerging Voices Project. We are looking forward to working with her in the Fall.

Coaching with Lori Laitman

Yesterday Elisabeth and I drove down to Potomac, MD to work with Lori Laitman on her piece I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Lori had great advice for us on the character of each movement and helped us with interpretive choices that we've debate over the last couple years. We're feeling ready to go and will start recording her piece next week!

I also wanted to share Lori's awesome dog Kirby, who is a natural singer: