Wow, what a beautiful Gapplegate review for the orchestral music of Dream Vapors. My heartfelt thanks going out to Grego Edwards!

Dear Grego Applegate Edwards,
My sources of inspiration are so directly rooted in emotions and my processing and translating life experiences, that it is always my hope that the music can, in turn, resonate with listeners in personal ways. Thank you so much for your thoughtful listening, for your openness, and for this wonderful understanding of my music.
Most appreciatively, Rain Worthington

I’m so excited to announce two career milestones coming in early 2016.

The release of my debut solo orchestral CD, DREAM VAPORS, February 12, 2016 on Navona Records and the March 1, 2016 premiere performance of Tracing a Dream – for orchestra, at the Missouri State University Composition Festival in Springfield, MO.

Thanks to the Musicians for the Wonderful Performances in 2015!

Where would composers be without the skilled mastery of musicians?

From Iceland to Italy,
California to Virginia to New Hampshire…
Thanks to these wonderfully gifted musicians for their exquisite performances of my music in 2015
I am so grateful for their skill and artistry!

Eva Ingolf, violin, PARMA Music Festival, Circuit Bridges, Vox Novus Festival; Miolina: Mioi Takeda & Lynn Bechtold, violins, Spectrum & Minding Your Business cable show; Ricochet Duo: Rose Chancler, piano & Jane Boxall, marimba, “Woodswoman Project,” Proctor’s Theater; Jane Boxall, solo marimba, “ControCanto: Gli Incontri con le Compositrici 2015”; 2Flutes: Pamela Sklar & Laura Falzon “Two Rivers” & “Woven”; Benedict Goodfriend, violin, Thursday Morning Music Club; Hayk Arsenyan, piano, Composer’s Voice; Janet Jacobson & Seina Shirakura, violins, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronsky, Conductor.

Wow, what a privilege to be in the company of these three fantastic musicians – Violinists, Vít Mužík & Eva Ingolf, and Cellist, Carmine Miranda at the PARMA Music Festival.

Eva Ingolf Premieres Resonances at the PARMA Festival

Eva Ingolf performing violin solos, An Evening Indigo and Resonances at the PARMA Music Festival
PARMA MUSIC FESTIVAL:  August 14-16
A weekend of music + a picturesque NE fishing town @PARMAmusicfest – A very cool event!
with fantastic musicians Eva Ingolf & Carmine Miranda & Vít Mužík & John Page & the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra & more! Kingsley Flood, Chris Klaxton Music, Ivonne K Paredes, Miss Fairchild

Kingsley Flood with the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra and violinist Eva Ingolf presented by the 2015 PARMA Music Festival
Sunday, August 16, 2015
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Purchase tickets for the main stage Sunday, August 16th concert at the Portsmouth Music Hall

See you @PARMAmusicfest
Preview the PARMA Festival Playlist

Terrific orchestral recordings sessions with PARMA Recordings in Olomouc, Czech Republic. What a dynamite Production & Engineering session team! Now on to the 1st phase of audio edits.

A slow version of Night Stream performed beautifully and sensitively by violinists, Janet Jacobson & Seina Shirakura at the 2015 Festival of Women Composers Hartford.

On Curious Reflection will be performed on Wednesday, May 13, 7:00 p.m. GE Theatre at Proctors as part of Ricochet Duo’s The Woodswoman Project: a tribute to Anne LaBastille

The multimedia program includes stunning images by acclaimed Adirondack photographers Mark Bowie, Shaun Heffernan and Carl Heilman II alongside Adirondack-inspired music by Hilary Tann, Doug Opel, Bill Pfaff and Rain Worthington.

Followed by a post-concert reception to enjoy light refreshments with the President Stephen C. Ainlay, Mrs. Judith Gardner Ainlay and the musicians.

Purchase Tickets GE Theatre at Proctors 432 State Street Schenectady, NY 12305

Just wanted to share… a video poem for An Evening Indigo

An intriguing confluence of Eva Ingolf’s beautiful playing, Gunnbjorg Oladottir’s deep poetry and video imagery by Rakel Steinarsdottir for my solo violin piece An Evening Indigo.

How nice a review mention for my music from Daniel Coombs on his Audiophile Audition review of ELEMENTS RISING CD. So sweetly appreciated. Thanks, Daniel!

ELEMENTS RISING

Now released! Rain Worthington’s Night Stream and Rhythm Modes
on Navona’s ELEMENTS RISING CD

Navona Records’ latest offering of chamber music ELEMENTS RISING highlights contemporary composers who re-imagine the building blocks of music, such as melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, and timbre, in innovative ways, applying them to a number of duo and ensemble settings.

Night Stream has had a wonderful history of performances with a World Premiere at the 2014 PARMA Music Festival, a CT Premiere at the Festival of Women Composers in Hartford, and a NY Premiere by Miolina (Mioi Takeda and Lynn Bechtold).

While Rhythm Modes was given its premiere by the Sirius String Quartet in NYC, with a subsequent NYC concert performance.

MIOLINA: Lynn Bechtold and Mioi Takeda present the exquisite interplay of two violins in concert! March 8, Spectrum, NYC, and the NY Premiere of “NIght Stream”

http://eepurl.com/bfBo6b

Includes recordings of my violin duet, Night Stream, and Rhythm Modes for string quartet!

PARMA's crack Art Department strikes again! ELEMENTS RISING feat. @rainworthington, Brings, Diehl, Block, & Ramette pic.twitter.com/Gd28QgRXmF

— PARMA Recordings (@parmarecordings) January 30, 2015

Thanks to some awesome musicians for their beautiful performances of my music in 2014.

Coming up December 18th… Afternoon Reflections in the evening
Please join me at the next Musical Amoeba concert – December 18th, “American Voice“at 8:30pm, Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, NYC

Musical Amoeba Founder, Composer, and Clarinetist, William Wheeler, will be performing my piece for solo Bass Clarinet, Afternoon Reflections.

Although this work has had a varied and interesting history – an award in Great Britain with a premiere performance in London by Marc B. Naylor; a nice write up in The Clarinet Journal by Robert Riseling, and a home studio recording by Italian virtuoso clarinetist, Guido Arbonelli.

This will be the US Premiere, and the first time for me hearing it performed live!
Hope you’ll come enjoy the sound of bass clarinet in concert!

(Thanks Musical Amoeba, for this nice feature profile.)

This is certainly a thrill.

Violinist, Eva Ingolf will perform two of my pieces for solo violin at the Festival Internacional de Música Contemporânea in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Friday, November 21at 7:00pm
UTC-02 Centro Cultural Justiça Federal Avenida Rio Branco, 241 – Centro, 20040-009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Here’s a “re-play preview” of Eva’s earlier performance of “An Evening Indigo.”

Thanks for listening!

Violinist, Eva Ingolf will be performing my miniature, Frost Vapors -composed for her on the theme of her homeland Iceland, “Land of Mystery and Trolls.” Come hear some cool performances and support a terrific, innovative organization, Vox Novus. Here’s an audio preview.
Beginning with ONE concert event and fundraiser for Vox Novus

Saturday, November 1, 2014 3:00pm-4:30pm
Basha Studio 34
45 East 34th Street Suite 3
New York, NY 10016
Tickets: $10 at the door
For any questions please contact Artistic Director Kenji Haba at:
[email protected]

October 22nd, 1pm, 2Flutes presents the flute duo version premiere of Duets for a Duo in Flashes of Inspiration and Joy a program of varied music from the Renaissance to Contemporary with music by NYWC members Joelle Wallach, Rain Worthington, and Pamela Sklar at St Paul’s Church Historic Site

I’m very excited that the recording of my piece, Within a Dance–a tone poem of love, for small orchestra, is part of this terrific enhanced-content compilation disc (with scores included) LUMINESCENCE, Navona Records, NV5969 (2014)

http://www.parmarecordings.blogspot.com/2014/09/september-releases-on-navona-and.html

LUMINESCENCE brings to light six works for small and large orchestra, showcasing the inspired directions and composers of contemporary orchestral music.

Rain Worthington’s Within a Dance–a tone poem of love reflects on a first invitation to dance and the continuation of the dance of love with a tenderness of touch and a lingering embrace. Her music communicates its emotions and speaks to the senses.