Fictive Music

Tag: Chamber Music

  • 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.…

  • Piano Trio No. 2 score available for purchase

    Piano Trio No. 2 score available for purchase

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    Now available for purchase: Piano Trio No. 2 “Payne Hollow” Premiered earlier this year by NouLou Chamber Players, at the Filson Historical Society and at The Carnegie in Covington, KY (pictured below). This piano trio is an homage to Harlan and Anna Hubbard whose lives were defined by “living deliberately” in their handmade home on…

  • 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…

  • A song and dance

    A song and dance

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    A performance of “The Porch Over the River” and new choreography to “Variations” are scheduled for the next several weeks. The latter, based on edited (for time and content) moments, created by Ashley Thursby-Kern of the Louisville Ballet for Choreographers’ Showcase (we collaborated on the first such showcase in 2015). Jason Steigerwalt (baritone), Marilyn Nije…

  • 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.

  • The Porch Over the River

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    Wendell Berry’s prophetic words in “The Porch Over the River” describe a pastoral scene which becomes darkly reflective of our human footprint. It’s as though the sounds of the river, frogs, phoebes, and trees are momentarily interrupted by the passing sound of traffic or the distant whine of a jet engine. But our focus returns…