My good friend Tawnie Olson just wrote a beautiful guest blog post over at the Janus Trio website, part of their Mouth-Piece series.
Tawnie and I met back while I was at Yale, I was playing one of the percussion parts in her thesis composition. Shortly after, I asked her to write a piece for the Wanmu percussion trio and she wrote As Rain Hollows Stone.
Ever since then, I’ve been begging her to write me a marimba solo, and she’s finally doing it! The piece will be called No two blackbirds, and it’s a unique take on birdsong. I premiered the first movement back in September in San Diego, check that out here. The world premiere will be at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. on March 23rd.