Fictive Music

Category: premieres

  • New Album

    New Album

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    Out now, a new album with Piano Trio No. 2 “Payne Hollow” and the electronic soundscape winterloops. Find it on Bandcamp, where you can also get a limited edition 12″ vinyl (available for shipping in late 2025). The album was recorded and mixed by Dave Chale, produced by Evan Vicic, liner notes by Jessica K.…

  • Premiere: Piano Trio No. 2 “Payne Hollow”

    Premiere: Piano Trio No. 2 “Payne Hollow”

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    What began as casual conversation with Jessica Whitehead (years ago) —— about Harlan and Anna Hubbard’s life on a shantyboat, their house at Payne Hollow, and the music they played together —— will take shape as a new piano trio premiering February 25th at the Filson Historical Society with violinist Heather Thomas and cellist Cecilia…

  • A Q&A with writer and curator Jessica K. Whitehead

    A Q&A with writer and curator Jessica K. Whitehead

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    My next work is a piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) called “Payne Hollow,” premiering on February 25, 2025 at the Filson Historical Society in conjunction with the launch of “Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard” by Jessica K. Whitehead. Jessica provided the impetus for the trio, along with tirelessly advocating to funders and those…

  • Notes on Suite for Ten Instruments

    Notes on Suite for Ten Instruments

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    Premiering April 15, 2024 with NouLou Chamber Players, this new work called “Suite for Ten Instruments,” is in six movements.  Program notes: This collection of images comes from late 2023/early 2024, using ten instruments as a whole ensemble, but also in subgroups of fewer players, each movement with a distinct character and story (the first…

  • Music for ten

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    Announced recently: a new work for NouLou Chamber Players, whose members include musicians from the Louisville Orchestra and the University of Louisville, will premiere on April 15 of 2024 in an 18th century library. Lacking a title, at the moment, it’s music for 10 players (a dectet or decet or dixtour or…).

  • In the dusk: photos from the premiere

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    of The Porch Over the River at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. Text by Wendell Berry. Pictured are Chad Sloan (baritone), Carrie RavenStem (clarinet), and Jessica Litwiniec Dorman (piano). Photo credit Alix Mattingly/Kentucky Center.

  • Langston Hughes Songs at 21C

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    Later this month at 21C Museum, Orchestra Enigmatic will present a the new orchestrated version of Langston Hughes Songs, with Jan Pellant conducting and Susan Hahn singing. This latest iteration includes a newly-composed overture. The earliest versions of these songs are from 1999-2000, and have been modified (slightly) over the past sixteen years.