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Keith Lay, composer
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In-development Projects & Events
The Flower of Life Studio Sessions
The music from my June 15th's "The Flower of Life I" was recorded with its premiering ensemble, The Brass Band of Central Florida under its Musical Director, Gareth Pritchard by engineer Meredith Douglas at Full Sail University's"Audio Temple". The band hopes to return to the studio this spring for The ...
Distance Music Documentary: The First Ten Years
Distance Music: The First Ten Years I am culling a documentary out of the hours of concert footage and development videos to tell the story of "Distance Music." A massive project, I hope to complete it before the end of 2026. The following videos are examples a fraction of the footage ...
Tree Music
A Living Symphony ! Imagine each tree in a grove contributing a unique voice to a dynamic, living symphony: each tone being a result of mapping sap flow, water content, energy flow, and more, to a specific musical component. How would each tree respond to the sun emerging from behind ...
A new version of Earth Caoine (Earth Cry) for OCCO
Earth Caoine (Cry) is a wail of loss for the planet, written for Richard Stoltzman in 1995-6 and recorded in Warsaw, Poland for MMC Recordings in 1996. I am creating a new arrangement of this work for Jessica Hall Speak and the Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra. This concerto for clarinet and ...
Keith Lay WORKS & Events Past
• 2025 •
Yo Soy Un Hombre Sincero
Yo Soy Un Hombre Sincero Based on a fragment of the poem by José Marti for High Voice and Piano August 24th, 2025 7:30 PM @ Timucua Arts José Marti's "I am a sincere man" celebrates the power and morality of being connected with our ...
FUTURE NATURE
Art imitates spirit—which is the energy of being alive. Limited only by our receptivity, it catalyzes change and reframes experience as it courses through our senses, emotions, and identity. In Future Nature, Sinuhé Vega Negrin’s lush tropical plant life and layered, contemplative totems invite us ...
The 16th National Young Composers Challenge COMPOSIUM
The Challenge is simple. First, you write your own composition for small ensemble (2 to 6 instruments) or full orchestra. Then, a panel of judges chooses the top three orchestral and top three ensemble compositions to be performed and recorded by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at the ...
Deep Listening® Orlando 2025
Deep Listening is a composer’s sound practice devised by the legendary composer and thought leader, Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). It is open to everyone and devised to serve and expand our well-being, especially for those drawn to music and sound. In 2025, I led the last three ...
• 2024 •
GIG Podcast With Mike Redman
Mike Redman is a well established music composer of the Orlando area - a very musical gent who composed for the Disney theme parks. More recently, he has interviewed and written about the qualities of personality found in successful individuals within the Film and Music ...
The Flower of Life @ Full Sail University
What is distance music and what is so special about this piece ? Distance Music defies conventional descriptions. It's not just a music event, but an interactive journey, akin to a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). By meticulously arranging where instruments are placed in ...
Lasting Impressions with The Ft. Worth Symphony
Lasting Impressions in 3D is a world-touring media experience starring tenor Adam Fisher, live orchetra and brilliant new concert hall-sized visual technology. Designed by Ed Kasses with support from Sophie Renoir, the audience experiences an incredible multidimensional journey into the original paintings of the major ...
The 15th National Young Composers Challenge COMPOSIUM
The Challenge is simple. First, you write your own composition for small ensemble (2 to 6 instruments) or full orchestra. Then, a panel of judges chooses the top three orchestral and top three ensemble compositions to be performed and recorded by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at the ...
America’s Wonders The Augusta Symphony
America's Wonders A 3D and Musical Adventure Exploring America's National Parks and Exciting Cities is a unique cinematic and musical celebration, giving audiences the opportunity to see striking 3D film by McGillvray & Freeman while an orchestra takes them on a journey through America.During the first ...
Children On The Playground in Brno Czech Republic
My award winning Violin Concerto for Strings, "Children On The Playground" was performed in Brno, Czech Republic by a new, young violinist Martin Pavlik and the Orchestra / conductor who recorded it in 2022: The Brno Contemporary Chamber Orchestra under Pavel Snadjr. This concert was made ...
Deep Listening® Orlando 2024
In 2024, I led eleven monthly Deep Listening events: 1/17, 2/21, 3/20, 4/17, 5/15, 6/16, 7/17, 9/18, 10/16, 11/20, and 12/18 at the Timucua Arts Foundation. Deep Listening is a composer’s sound practice devised by the legendary composer and thought leader, Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). It ...
• 2023 •
America’s Wonders The Naples Philharmonic
America's Wonders A 3D and Musical Adventure Exploring America's National Parks and Exciting Cities is a unique cinematic and musical celebration, giving audiences the opportunity to see striking 3D film by McGillvray & Freeman while an orchestra takes them on a journey through America.During the ...
Over the North Jetty
"Over the North Jetty" for Double Chorus, Wind Octet and Flapper is a poem by William Stafford that speaks the thoughts of the poet watching a flock of geese in a northern winter storm. In his poem we are invited into deep empathy, as he observes ...
Over the North Jetty for Florida Choral Directors
"Over the North Jetty" for Double Chorus, Wind Octet and Flapper is a poem by William Stafford that speaks the thoughts of the poet watching a flock of geese in a northern winter storm. In his poem we are invited into deep empathy, as he observes ...
ACDA Florida Chapter Presentation with Dr. Andrew Minear
A week before Orlando Sings publicly presented "Over the North Jetty", the director of that organization, Dr. Andrew Minear, invited me to join him in presenting ideas in why choral singing is healthy. Lots of fun to work with Andrew in that setting and present ...
long contented waltz
"Long" Contented Waltz was created to get real brain wave frequency data to explore reactions to 432Hz tuning. It is the long version (10 minutes) of "Contented Waltz" a four minute piece that began as a solo classical guitar work in 1995. This extended version duplicates ...
Sacred Awe: the overview effect
"Sacred Awe" aims to transport the audience on a transformative voyage, leaving them with a renewed sense of grounding, contentment, and a deep appreciation for the delicate beauty of our planet. Through the universal language of music, this symphonic work seeks to evoke empathy and ...
FMEA – Emerging Leaders Program “Coming Together through Music”...
The Florida Music Education Association honored me to speak at their Emerging Leaders Conference. I chose to present basic Deep Listening® and HeartMath techniques and describe how they facilitate playing and singing in music ensembles. Originally titled "Coming Together Through Music", I updated the presentation ...
Children On The Playground concerto recording release
Navona records released my Violin Concerto for Strings "Children On The Playground" with violinist Milan Pala and the Brno Contemporary Orchestra under Pavel Snadjr. My most popular concert work, I'm thrilled that it has finally seen a worldwide, professional release! Milan Pala's storied emotional range is ...
Deep Listening® Orlando 2023
Pauline Oliveros:“What Is Deep Listening?For me Deep Listening is a life long practice. The more I listen the more I learn to listen. Deep Listening involves going below the surface of what is heard, expanding to the whole field of sound while finding focus. This ...
• 2022 •
Contented Waltz
A gentle waltz, this music began life in 1995 as a sketch called "Waltz for Guitar". I knew and loved the expressive sound of the instrument from my friendships with excellent guitarists like Stephen Aron at Oberlin and Tom Olson in Clevelend, as well as ...
“Four Dimensions” with TEREMA, St. Petersburg, Russia...
Four Dimensions is a seven-minute “concert of the future” composed in 2012 merging orchestra with both live and pre-recorded electronics. In St. Petersburg, Russia, a quite different double orchestra of Russian folk instruments and Strings called TEREMA performed a fascinating new arrangement with the same ...
FusionFest Fanfare 2022
FusionFest is an annual Orlando bash lasting two days on Thanksgiving Weekend. I was commissioned to produce the" Opening Spectacle" for both days. Scored for Brass Band (British), Chorus and African Drums, my goal was simply to create exciting music fitting for our city - something ...
Funky Tubes
To pay respect to James Brown, I cataloged the riffs in his 1972 "Funky Drummer" to create "Funky Tubes for Tuba Trio," commissioned by the FMTNA, premiering at their convention in 2018.I met Bob after hearing about his search into lost metallurgic processes that produced ...
Children On the Playground recording session in the Czech Republ...
The PARMA classical label team recorded "Children On The Playground" with Milan Paľa, violin and the Brno Contemporary Orchestra, conducted by Pavel Šnajdr in Brno, CZ on August 16th, 2022Milán Pala is Europe's up-and-coming violinist - known for his unbounded energy and passion.The Brno Contemporary ...
TongLen
This music, created with sampled orchestra and live musicians Beatriz Ramirez and Benoit Glazer, is formally structured to follow the experience of tonglen, a Tibetan Buddhist word translating to 'give and receive.' Tonglen is a series of mindful steps to build loving-kindness, empathy, and compassion ...
America’s Wonders The Florida Orchestra (Tampa)
America's Wonders A 3D and Musical Adventure Exploring America's National Parks and Exciting Cities is a unique cinematic and musical celebration, giving audiences the opportunity to see striking 3D images while an orchestra takes them on a journey through America.During the first half of the ...
America’s Wonders The Orlando Philharmonic
America's Wonders A 3D and Musical Adventure Exploring America's National Parks and Exciting Cities is a unique cinematic and musical celebration, giving audiences the opportunity to see striking 3D images while an orchestra takes them on a journey through America.During the first half of the ...
Deep Listening Orlando 2022
In 2022, the first year of my three-year tenure at Timucua Arts, I led three monthly Deep Listening classes: 8/21, 10/16, and 12/18. Deep Listening is a composer’s sound practice devised by the legendary composer and thought leader, Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). It is open to ...
• 2021 •
The Synclavier Project
I have taken on the care and feeding of a used New England Digital Synclavier 3200. Stored for decades in a warehouse, I don't know if the large, complex machine works. The Synclavier has a rich history. Though this following video is a little-bit short ...
FusionFest FANFARE 2021
Placed across 20 acres of downtown Orlando 29 brass, 7 train horns, 4 conch shells and a solo Hawai'ian vocal, this "Opening Spectacle" was a declaration of musical joy and cultural harmony, filling the air between Orlando City Hall and the Dr. Phillips Center. This ...
WESH Channel2 Orlando IMMERSE 2021
TRANSCRIPt ORLANDO, Fla. — This weekend downtown Orlando will be bursting with excitement for the first time since before the pandemic. “We are very excited to see these events return. I mean last year there was practically zero events," said Kelly Allen, with the Downtown ...
Distance Music @ IMMERSE 2021
Wouldn't it be fun to walk down 460 feet of Orlando's Orange Avenue, listening to a beautiful modern chord echoing through the air between its buildings - that changes its rhythm and note order as you move? To be surrounded by it, in infinite variations ...
Joyful Play for Four Hands
Joyful Play is the four-hands piano adaptation of the opening movement of "Children On the Playground" for Solo Violin and Strings' performed by my dear friend and supporter, Rose Grace and Barry Snyder.Just like the concerto, this movement portrays an eight-year-old alpha kid leading a ...
Why would anyone be interested in hearing Distance Music?
Wouldn't it be fun to step into a vast musical environment, full of sounds from across the distance, echoing through the streets and woods - that change their rhythms and order as you walk? To be surrounded by a melody that is created by where ...
• 2020 •
DRIVING TO WORK, I STOP SUDDENLY TO LET AN ALLIGATOR CROSS THE R...
For Soprano and Piano Performed by Anna Eschbach, soprano and Kristine Griffin, piano at the Timucua Arts Foundation during the Covid-19 pandemic. While most of our audience was onine, ten lucky people were given the opporunity to attend personally. This was a Central Florida Composers ...
La Mamma Morta with Soula Parassidis
Soula Parassidis is a Greek-Canadian Dramatic Soprano I met through Full Sail's top resident producer, Darren Schneider. After being introduced to the school, Soula and her husband, operatic tenor Norman Reinhardt asked Darren if he could help them produce a song meant for a film ...
Distance Music at Atlantic Center for the Arts: CANCELLED-COVID
A warm sea breeze wafts through the Florida forest surrounding Atlantic Center for the Arts. The audience waits in the Amphitheater, one of fourteen beautiful structures nestled in the trees, anxious to explore eleven acres of Distance Music. A drum set and musicians stand nearby ...
• 2019 •
America’s Wonders The Utah Symphony
is a unique cinematic and musical celebration, giving audiences the opportunity to see striking 3D images while an orchestra takes them on a journey through America. This, our second set of performances received rave reviews from the press and audience. During the first half of the ...
America’s Wonders Premieres with The Cincinnati Pops
is a unique cinematic and musical celebration, giving audiences the opportunity to see striking 3D images while an orchestra takes them on a journey through America. This production was our premiere and the CEO of Princeton Entertainment flew the team in to witness our work ...
• 2018 •
Fanfare Orlando: Recording Sessions & Rollins Concert Choir
In 2018, Fanfare Orlando saw three performances and a recording session. Originally scored for three trumpets, four horns, 3 trombones, and tuba a new arrangement added a full SATB choir. Both were recorded by, conducted by John Sinclair. In two minutes, "Fanfare Orlando" presents two ...
• 2017 •
Woodwind Quintet No. 2
No instrument groups have as much personality than do the woodwinds. This quintet was written for the Alterity Chamber Orchestra's principal winds from late May through July 15th 2017 via a call for scores by CF2 . It premiered on October 15th, 2017 at the ...
Fanfare Orlando
Fanfare Orlando is a jubilant 2 minute fanfare for full brass choir, commissioned in 2017 by Maestro Eric Jacobsen of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra for their Silver Jubilee 25th Anniversary. It expresses pride in Orlando, the City Beautiful. Scored for three trumpets, four horns, 3 ...
• 2016 •
Composer Keith Lay ties together Wagner and Ravel at Orlando Phi...
Original Post Posted By Jessica Bryce Young on Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:55 am The final show of the Orlando Philharmonic’s 2015-2016 Classics series is a barn-burner, from Wagner’s swooping Overture to Tannhäuser to Ravel’s plucky, sinuous Alborada del gracioso to the eponym composition, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition ...
At final classics concert, Philharmonic celebrates
Review: At final classics concert, Philharmonic celebrates Matthew J. PalmContact Reporter The Artistic Type The mood was festive at Saturday's Orlando Philharmonic concert: "Tonight is a celebration," proclaimed music director Eric Jacobsen. The final Classics Series concert of the season featured a world-premiere from acclaimed composer ...
Venus and Vulcan in America
This symphonic commission came from the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra with the following specifications: it would be placed in first half between Richard Wagner’s Overture to Tannhaüser and Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso It would begin where Wagner's piece left off and take us to the ...
Orlando Philharmonic Presents New Work by Keith Lay
Contact: Caitlin Pequignot Interim Communications Manager Ph: 407-451-1449 cmpequignot@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orlando Philharmonic Presents New Work by Keith Lay (Orlando, FL – January 21, 2016) – The Orlando Philharmonic will perform a commissioned work, “Venus and Vulcan in America,” by acclaimed Orlando composer and ...
Following Directions for Videoconference and two or more attende...
This is a Deep Listening® piece that served as my capstone sonic meditation for my Deep Listening (DL) Certificate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in January 2016. As is the nature of all DL works they provide a vehicle to our sound practice: the process of ...
• 2015 •
The American Prize: Special Achievement in the Art of the Concer...
The American Prize in Composition—Orchestra (professional division)JUDGES CITATION: "Special Achievement in the Art of the Concerto"KEITH LAY for "Children on the Playground"as performed by Sir Tamas Kocsis, violinThe Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Strings, conducted by Christopher WilkinsThis is a concerto for violin and string orchestra dating ...
When Leaders Stop Listening
https://youtu.be/1q6lYFD3fnYIn the spirit of Charles Ives, Carl Stallings, and Frank Zappa, I wanted my audience to enjoy poking fun at the chain-of-command societal structure: to let the music inspire humor towards the feelings of powerlessness we often find ourselves in at work, in every level ...
Composer Keith Lay debuts a new work for brass and mimes at Timu...
Composer Keith Lay debuts a new work for brass and mimes at Timucua this weekend Posted By Thaddeus McCollum on Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:00 am Keith Lay is proving to be our area’s most inventive composer. Last year, he put on one of ...
Central Florida Composers Forum concert review (“When Leaders St...
From The Examiner Those in Orlando’s niche market for local art music know it’s no secret that Timucua White House is the place to be. The Glazer family has celebrated music by opening their doors to the community for 15 years, and last night a very full ...
SoundNotion TV Interview
This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by composer and train horn aficionado Keith Lay. We discuss his massive (metaphorically and literally) new work Distance Music at Lake Eola in Orlando Florida for spacialized train horns and brass ensembles. Support Keith's crazy-awesome project on ...
Joyful Play
Four hands Piano https://youtu.be/4kaXVWperko?Joyful Play is an adaptation of the lively first movement of Children On the Playground for Solo Violin and Strings for two pianists sharing the same piano (called four hands). The music portrays an eight-year-old alpha kid leading a mini-mob of friends On the ...
Deep Listening® Certification Classes
Deep Listening is a composer’s sound practice devised by the legendary composer and thought leader, Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). It is open to everyone and devised to serve and expand our well-being, especially for those drawn to music and sound. In 2015, I had decided to become ...
• 2014 •
Runaway Hearts (Film Soundtrack)
Runaway Hearts is a film about two kids on the run from a very scary present who come across two adults who can't quite escape their past. They're four people in need of a miracle, and sometimes the miracles in life are the very people ...
Two-Edged Sword
https://youtu.be/JY97e-l3oGk?t=5Two Edged Sword is a 6 minute 20 second single movement piece for Brass Quintet and Trap Set composed between July 31st and September 10th, 2014 for the Sovereign Brass ensemble. It was premiered on November 9th by the Sovereign Brass at the Trinity Preparatory ...
Distance Music @ Lake Eola (2014)
Keith Lay continues his ongoing experiments in psychoacoustics with his latest composition, Distance Music at Lake Eola for Walking Audience, Train Horns and Brass Choirs.... Those who witnessed Lay’s 2012 performance, inSPIRE, will be familiar with his penchant for adding time and space to the usual ...
A flotilla of radio-controlled train klaxons mounted on swan boa...
Keith Lay conducts an experiment in sound with 'Distance Music at Lake Eola for Walking Audience, Train Horns and Brass Choirs' Noon Saturday, Oct. 25 | Lake Eola, 195 N. Rosalind Ave. | free Local composer and educator Keith Lay continues his ongoing experiments in psychoacoustics ...
Keith Lay wants to play music on swan-boat-mounted radio-control...
Keith Lay wants to play music on swan-boat-mounted radio-controlled train klaxons and we think that's awesome Posted By Jessica Bryce Young We'll be writing more about this as the actual event approaches, but just wanted to point you to another awesome Orlando project currently in the ...
• 2012 •
inSPIRE for 22 brass, Carillon, Bell & Distance
https://youtu.be/NJ9aXLzaiuMOn October 20, 2012, musicians placed on rooftops, steeples, and lake boats in downtown Orlando, Florida performed "inSPIRE for 22 Brass, Carillons, C Bell and Distance," the first experiment in "distance music." The Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs department supported the project as a ...
The Creative City Project
The Creative City Project Ambitious arts project promises a new performance in downtown Orlando every day for month of October By Scott Horn If you're downtown at noon on Oct. 20, you might think for a moment you're hallucinating when you hear the music. Bells ...
Equilateral for Clarinet Quartet
https://youtu.be/Pi2hq05eYMoEquilateral for Four Clarinets, commissioned by Kevin Strang for the Sunshine Clarinet Quartet, is my first attempt to create music that flows on a seamless compression and relaxation of time that I call "Flowing Meter." The quartet premiered it at ClarinetFest 2012 in Asissi, Italy ...
Orlando Philharmonic, Full Sail University mix music and technol...
Orlando Philharmonic, Full Sail University mix music and technologyBy Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel arts writerhttp://bit.ly/IWOYq3For its annual fundraising gala, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra partnered with Full Sail University to create a concert showcasing not only the Phil's musicians but the technological know-how of Full ...
Four Dimensions
four dimensions for orchestra, ewi and laptop Four Dimensions with the Orlando Philharmonic under the baton of Dirk Meyer, Brian Smithers on the Akai EWI. Computer art by Nathan Selikoff Four Dimensions is a seven-minute "concert of the future" merging orchestra with music synthesis. An ...
• 2010 •
How to Compose Distance Music
How to compose Distance Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNAX3K4iyM Massively MultiplayerEvery Distance Music work uses technology and the physics of sound to create a large, outdoor environment that builds a unique musical result at every different square yard of the ground's surface. Two classes of players, multiple machines called "sounders" ...
Children On The Playground
Children On The Playground is a 17 minute, three-movement Concerto for Violin and Strings that strives to engage the audiences' imaginations through story and uncluttered composition, originally composed in 1999 and 2000 for Alex Dean's premiere performance in 2002 with the Air Force String Orchestra ...
• 2009 •
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• 2007 •
Vision of the Earth for Chorus, Orchestra, Organ and Soli
https://youtu.be/jW28af7LgtA The story behind "Vision of the Earth" Just moved to Florida in 1990, my first exploration of Winter Park, Florida took me to a dark corner of used bookstore near the corner of Park and Fairbanks. In the poetry section, I ran across a ...
Vision of the Earth Radio Promotion WPRK
October 2007 WPRK radio promotion for "Vision of the Earth" premiere by the Winter Park Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra. Becky Morgan, producer and on-air talent ...
Keith Lay Bach Festival Premiere
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2007 Keith Lay Bach Festival Premiere Keith Lay has been called "a composer to watch for" by the New York Times. He is an Orlando composer receiving a premiere of a recent work for large chorus and orchestra at the Bach Festival (Download the 2007 Concert Season Brochure) ...
The Arts Connection interview with Keith Lay, talking about Visi...
Central Florida's NPR Affiliate is WFME-FM. Becky Morgan featured interesting articles spanning the art world of greater Central Florida. She kindly interviewed me about the premiere of "Vision of the Earth". This aired several dates in October 2007. (we miss you Becky!) ...
Fifteen Minutes of Dissonant Harmony
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF DISSONANT HARMONY By Pat Greene and Lindy T. Shepherd I SEE a new Earth An Earth that is alive– glowing with the care of man, Man grown wise and free. The influence of different civilizations flows evenly around; Races and nations ...
• 2006 •
Gramophone Magazine, June 2006 issue
Liquid sounds of a master soloist By Ken Smith Published: June 2006 issue, Gramophone Magazine Any fear and trepidation that might normally surround an hour's-worth of recent clarinet concertos by lesser known composers should be put aside. First, this collection offers the artistry of Richard ...
Sonic Meditation: Practicing Happiness
Sonic Meditation: Practicing Happiness For any number of participants who can speak and be heard by each other. Listening Meditation As often or not often as you like, Listen internally and externally and say words and/or vocalize what you hear, feel, think, imagine, or see. At ...
The Clarinet Review: “Reflections” by Richard Stoltzman...
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by George Manahan (Perlongo, Lay, Iannaccone, and Stiller) and by Jerzy Swoboda (Goodwin). Daniel James Perlongo: Sunburst (1995); Keith Lay: Earth Caoine (1995); Gordon Goodwin: Paraph (1996); Anthony Iannaccone: Concertante for Clarinet and Orchestra (1995); Andrew Stiller: ...
• 2005 •
Discs: Reflections
Discs by Jeff Miers The trouble with being the Great American Clarinet Virtuoso is also the advantage of it: The repertoire for your instrument isn't exactly scant but nor is it overly abundant, either. A clarinetist needs his contemporaries in the composer's tribe. Brahms, Mozart ...
Meeting Pauline Oliveros
I met Pauline Oliveros , legendary composer and creator of Deep Listening, in June 2005 at Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) in New Smyrna, Florida. She was a master mentor for their Residency #114. At that time I (as a Full Sail representative) was ...
Review: “Reflections”
Had this sort of collection been released a few years ago, it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun: It would have been full of 12-tone angst. But times have changed (for the better!) and these five free-spirited American composers have found intriguing ways to ...
• 2004 •
New York Times: Adventure With Some Winners
By Anthony Tommasini, Nov.8, 2004It says something about how few opportunities there are for composers to have new works performed by orchestras that the Riverside Symphony, an adventurous ensemble that typically presents just three programs per season, got such a strong response to its International ...
Children On The Playground
Children On The Playground is a 17 minute, three-movement Concerto for Violin and Strings that strives to engage the audiences' imaginations through story and uncluttered composition, originally composed in 1999 and 2000 for Alex Dean's premiere performance in 2002 with the Air Force String Orchestra ...
Flying Tiger (Film Soundtrack)
Flying Tiger was an ambitious project of Keith Alan Morris, who had just joined the faculty of Full Sail around 2004. He asked me to compose the music to this project, and Mike Orlowski to handle audio postproduction - we both agreed because it would ...
Full Sail Instructor Keith Lay To Have Work Performed At Lincoln...
Keith Lay, Course Director for Music History at Full Sail Real World Education, has had his classical composition "On the Playground" selected by New York's Riverside Symphony for an upcoming concert. The three-movement concerto will be performed on Friday, November 5th at the esteemed Lincoln ...
• 2003 •
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• 2002 •
Children On The Playground
Children On The Playground is a 17 minute, three-movement Concerto for Violin and Strings that strives to engage the audiences' imaginations through story and uncluttered composition, originally composed in 1999 and 2000 for Alex Dean's premiere performance in 2002 with the Air Force String Orchestra ...
The Story of “Children On The Playground”
composition 1999-2000Early in 1999, I received a surprise call from Alex Dean, an old college buddy violinist, and he was looking for something interesting to do while his organization, the United States Air Force String Orchestra, was performing concerts in Melbourne, Florida. Both my wife ...
• 1996 •
the Story of Earth Caoine (Earth Cry)
Thanks to Richard Stoltzman and William Thomas McKinley, the recording of "Earth Caoine" put me on the map as a serious composer in the US. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Stoltzman's artistry and Tom's openness to emerging composers. I received a call in 1993 ...
Earth Caoine (Earth Cry)
Earth Caoine (Cry) is a wail of loss for the planet, written for Richard Stoltzman in 1995-6 and recorded in Warsaw, Poland for MMC Recordings in 1996. ...Keith Lay’s unapologetically emotional Earth Caoine (1995), an extended cathartic wail of a piece essentially grieving for the ...
• 1995 •
Broyhill Chamber Ensemble MMC2041
This page is a holding place for grammy Career Info I recorded, mixed, edited and co-mastered all nine tracks ...
• 1990 •
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• 1987 •
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• 1983 •
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• 1975 •
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