From Orchestral Classical to Indie Folk Rock: A Highly Non-Professional Musical Tour

A Man, A Dream, An Oboe



Live From Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Buffalo, NY, Spring 2004

URCO-- Mozart Symphony No. 31

URCO-- Gounod Petite Symphony, Mvts. 1 & 3

Me - oboe

(My friend and fellow grad student-at-the-time Professor Sarah Creel is the superb clarinetist in the Mozart and Gounod.)



Live From Strong Auditorium, Rochester, NY

Apr 07: URCO-- Dvorak- "Serenade for Winds"; Tchaikovsky - "Some String Piece Thingy"; Milhaud - "Le Boeuf sur le Toit"

Me - oboe (Dvorak Mvts. 1&2 only, and parts of Milhaud)
Dvorak- 4:25; Tchaikovsky- 23:05; Milhaud- 37:45

May 06: URCO-- Prokofiev- "Peter and the Wolf"; Ravel - "Le Tombeau de Couperin"; Dvorak - Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-3

Me - oboe (Ravel only)
Prokofiev- 1:30; Ravel- 29:20; Dvorak- 48:30

Dec 05: URCO-- Ravel - Ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose"); Mendolssohn - Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

Me - english horn (Ravel only)
Ravel- 0:00; Mendelssohn- 18:20


Live From Bates Recital Hall, Butler School of Music, Austin, TX

Nov 08: UTUO-- Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Mvt. 1

Nov 08: UTUO-- Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Mvt. 2

Nov 08: UTUO-- Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Mvt. 3

Nov 08: UTUO-- Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Mvt. 4

Me - oboe


"Professional" Discography (mostly with Adam Green)




Garfield (2002)

Me - clarinet ("My Shadow Tags on Behind" & "Times Are Bad")


Moldy Peaches: Unreleased Cutz and Live Jamz 1994-2002 (2003)

Me - oboe ("Nothing Came Out") [sounding like it was recorded in a very small cardboard box]

Minor Love (2010)

Me - clarinet ("Bathing Birds", "Stadium Soul", & "Castles and Tassels")
Me - oboe ("Wonderful Woman")
Me - Man Choir ("Castles and Tassels")

Ben Kweller - Go Fly a Kite (2012)

Me - alto saxophone ("Mean to Me")

Nominated for a Grammy award! (For Best Cover Art, totally deserved)

The Pizza Underground (2014)

Me - Band Astronomer

Wherein I connect astrophysics to pizza, in 60 seconds.

Orbits (2015)

Me - Composer, Soundtrack

I composed nine original tracks for our in-development game, Orbits.

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