- Pianist Laura Leon has created a video featuring her recording of Schickele’s Household Moose (Sketches from the Summer of 1956). The video includes clips of the composer speaking about the sources of inspiration for the piece, written when he was 21, and animated versions of the illustrations his brother, David Schickele, contributed to the original score. Check it out at lauraleon.com.
- A recording by clarinetist David Shifrin and the Miró Quartet of Peter Schickele’s 2015 clarinet quintet, Spring Forward, has been released by Delos. The CD, which also contains clarinet quintet music by Richard Danielpour and Aaron Jay Kernis played by David Shifrin with the Dover Quartet and the Jasper String Quartet, received favorable reviews. It is available from many fine retailers and also right here at schickele.com. A live performance of the piece by Shifrin and the Miró Quartet was featured on American Public Media’s Performance Today.
- With the help of over a dozen orchestras around the world, pianist Jeffrey Biegel spearheaded the commission of the Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra, the largest P.D.Q. Bach work discovered this century. Biegel has performed the work with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the New Philharmonia Orchestra of Newton, Massachusetts, the Austin Symphony, the Traverse Symphony Orchestra, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, Philharmonia Northwest, the South Florida Symphony Orchestra, the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra,and Jyväskylä Sinfonia of Finland.