Category Archives: Albumleaves

An awkward child, he kept to himself

Albumleaf 216: November 13, 2025 (Bologna) 0:39 — “Can I be your friend?”

Woggalli Runs Out For Cake

Albumleaf 215: November 10, 2025 (Bologna)

Contemplating Some Hidden Words

Albumleaf 214: October 16, 2025 (Bologna) There are some ideas in this one.  From the dense, cloudy chords, the music extracts perfect fifths (first heard at 0:05), the most consonant interval between two different pitches, a symbol of the absolute, an ideal, a concept of perfection, “hidden words.” But in two instances, dissonant intervals emerge […]

Pensieri II.

Albumleaf 213: October 15, 2025 (Bologna)

Pensieri I.

Albumleaf 212: August 4, 2025 (New York) Revised October 13-14 (Bologna)

Dreams of Love and Travel

I’m very proud to announce the release of my second solo album, Dreams of Love and Travel, from New Focus Recordings. It drops this Friday, 22 August 2025. The work features 16 Albumleaves: all seven that comprise the big Proust suite plus nine inspired by my travels mainly in Italy but also elsewhere. I hope […]

Prima di partenza

Albumleaf 211: July 15, 2025 (Bologna)

Daydreams, Laughter, Reflections

Albumleaf 210: July 3, 3025 (Bologna)

La carta vincente

Albumleaf 209: June 20, 2025 8Bologna) “La carta Vincente” (“The winning card”) is inspired by a leitmotif in Stefano Massini’s Lehman Trilogy in which a dwarf shows onlookers a card, places it face down on a table with two other cards, maneuvers all three extremely rapidly, and then invites onlookers to identify the position of […]

Phrases in Variation

Albumleaf 208: June 19, 2025 (Bologna)