Middle Ground, an album recorded by violinist Kate Stenberg, features this work in three movements. Please check out this beautiful performance and read the liner notes by the engaging music journalist Vanessa Ague.

The digital album can be ordered through Other Minds Records here: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/middle-ground

Credits:

releases March 12, 2021

Kate Stenberg - Violin

Produced by Robert Honstein
Recorded and edited by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY
Mixed by Devin Greenwood at the Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Video by Four/Ten media (Kevin Eikenberg and Evan Chapman)
Design by Laura Grey with Molly Haig
Liner Notes by Vanessa Ague

Middle Ground was commissioned by Kat Kroll, Barbara Sapienza, and Nancy Karp + Dancers and premiered February 10, 2016 by Kate Stenberg at the ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

Gratitude and thanks to Kate Stenberg, Ryan Streber, Devin Greenwood, Laura Grey, Evan Chapman, Kevin Eikenberg, Other Minds, Andrew Weathers, Vanessa Ague, Nancy Karp, Kat Kroll, Barbara Sapienza, Nick Noyes, and Thekla Hammond.

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Third Angle New Music presents “Everything Means Nothing To Me”

Album available here: https://www.thirdangle.org/albums/everything-means-nothing-to-me

Featuring my arrangements of “Biggest Lie”, “Waltz #1”, and “Southern Belle”. 

The recorded works of Third Angle New Music in their 2018 concert “A Fond Farewell,” reimagining the music of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith as a suite of classical art-songs. Presents the music of six nationally lauded composers: Christopher Cerrone, LJ White, Robert Honstein, Scott Wollschleger, Ted Hearne, and Jacob Cooper. The second album on the Third Angle Records imprint.

Hub New Music and Robert Honstein: Soul House

Album out TODAY on New Amsterdam Records.
 
I'm incredibly excited to announce the release of Soul House, recorded by the wonderful Hub New Music. Out yesterday through New Amsterdam Records’ Windmill Series, this album features all nine movements of Soul House, with liner notes by Steve Smith.

This piece is near and dear to me and I couldn't have more fearlessly committed interpreters than Hub. I hope you will give it a listen!

More info on the release: https://www.newamrecords.com/albums/soul-house

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New Music Video of the movement “Backyard”!

the arts fuse review of the album

Honstein’s score, which was commissioned by HNM, features a mix of graceful, idiomatic, and virtuosic writing for the ensemble, which plays it here with tremendous control.

- Jonathan Blumhofer, artsfuse

Soul House | Hub New Music & Robert Honstein

Memory, nostalgia, longtime associations, and enduring relationships: these are the raw materials from which Soul House, the recording by the vital Boston ensemble Hub New Music, was constructed. Out via New Amsterdam’s Windmill Series on June 29 and available on all digital platforms on August 7, the recording comprises a single work by New York composer Robert Honstein, who formed a close bond with Hub during a period when he lived and worked in Boston.

- New Amsterdam Press Release

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This coincides with the release of my music video with Hub New Music of “Secret Place”!

Evan Chapman’s Caustics

Released April 10th, this album features Everything Now Right Now for drum set and pre-recorded electronics. This solo project by percussionist Evan Chapman also includes works by Ted Babcock, Alicia Walter, Ian Chang, Anna Meadors, Alexis C. Lamb, and Molly Joyce. Take a listen!! It is available on Bandcamp and other major platforms.

Score and electronics are available for purchase HERE.

Everything Now Right Now

First off, the video of Everything Now Right Now, performed by the amazing Evan Chapman, was published by Vic Firth this past Friday.

Second, this work will be included on his solo album “Caustics”, due to be released on April 10th, 2020! The album also includes works by Ian Chang of Son Lux, Molly Joyce, Alexis C. Lamb, Anna Meadors, Alicia Walter, and Ted Babcock. Stay tuned for more album release updates.

ABOUT THE PIECE:

Everything Now Right Now is a piece for drum set and track featuring high-energy, driving rhythms and a free-wheeling, synth-soaked track. Moving in lock-step with the drums, the track becomes a kind of super-drum, highlighting every sound in the kit as if the kit itself triggers the track’s bombastic frenzy. After a careening opening section, full of jump-cuts and jagged rhythms the track abruptly shifts to an ominous drone while the drummer adds a layer of improvised cymbal sounds. As we are lulled into an ambient haze of cymbals and shifting synth-pads, the music suddenly turns back to material reminiscent of the opening. The quick change leads to few brief missteps, but the drummer soon locks in with a series of increasingly disjunct grooves, driving the music to a bombastic finish.

Released September 27th, ASH features Sleeping Giant collaborator Ashley Bathgate performing works for solo cello, including Orison for cello and electronics.

The full press release is available on New Amsterdam Records and you can click on the album cover below for the album bandcamp page.