On July 18, 2021, I had the great honor of attending three premiere performances of my latest string quartet, “Wabi-Sabi“! What makes this piece so fun is that every single performance is going to be different from the last — that’s the nature of wabi-sabi… 🙂 So, below, enjoy two videos of two premiere performances — two interpretations from two very talented groups of students from the Chambe...

“Wabi-sabi acknowledges that just as it is important to know when to make choices, it is also important to know when not to make choices: to let things be.” (Leonard Koren in “Wabi- Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers”.) The aesthetic and metaphysical ideals that Japanese wabi-sabi encapsulates include simplicity, naturalness, and an acceptance of reality. The full musical w...