Earlier this fall, on a rainy Saturday evening, I had a unique opportunity to play the Messiaen’s venerable pipe organ at La Trinité in Paris. It was not only touching the very keys that Messiaen played that made the experience rather surreal, but hearing the enveloping sound resonating from the instrument into the space that [...]

I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded the Iron Composer Prize at the Iron Composer composition contest at Baldwin-Wallace College.. As one of five composers who were invited to compete in person, I was also assigned in the morning of the event an instrumentation and a secret ingredient for a to-be-composed [...]

A 3-manual and pedal mechanical action instrument by Orgelbau Klais from Bonn, Germany, sits comfortably and commandingly at the Simón Bolívar Concert Hall in Caracas, Venezuela. I had a great opportunity to play the organ during my recent visit to South America. The glittering case reflects the colorful and inviting performance space – a part [...]