Free Planet Radio's new recording "Global Symphony Project"(featuring the Opal String Quartet) was released locally and online August 28, 2015.
This new recording includes a new piece Ecstatic Verses written for a
grant from Chamber Music America. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
More info, listening, and purchase info at http://freeplanetradio.com/albums/
October 2013 - Hegira featuring the master musicians Hasan Isakkut (kanun), Ara Dinkjian (oud) & Ercan Irmak (ney) has been released in Turkey. I played piano and keyboards, and Hasan and I mixed and edited the CD here in my studio.
A new dobro & piano trio CD called the April Sessions is now available. It features Chris playing piano (& guitar), Billy Cardine on dobro, Zack Page on upright bass & RIver Guerguerian on drum kit. You can give it a listen and purchase it here
My song "Make A Wish" was played during a birthday photo montage at the end of the Season 5 Premiere of Jon & Kate Plus 8, the hit reality show on TLC. The show was watched by 9.8 million viewers and it was truly an honour & privilege to have my song heard by so many people at once! "Make A Wish" is also newly released as a download-only MP3 single
Winter 2008 - My song "Anna Has A Secret" is featured in Sing Out! Magazine. It is included on the sampler CD and the lyrics & sheet music are printed in the magazine.
http://www.singout.org/514toc.html
October 2008- I played some shows in Mexico as the keyboardist for the Omar Faruk Tekbilek Ensemble. We played at the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, the biggest music festival in Mexico in front of 9000 people and a film crew. My rented keyboard only malfunctioned/exploded once during the show...
March 2008 - Free Planet Radio accompanied world-renowned poet Robert Bly during a poetry reading at Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville NC
December 2007 - I composed and performed some music for the independent film, Anywhere USA, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2008. http://anywhereusathemovie.com/
January 2007 - Free Planet Radio's song Garden of the Beloved isfeatured on National Public Radio's "All Songs Considered". See www.npr.org
