The Quintet of the Americas will perform my Three Miniatures for Wind Quintet, which was inspired by the poetry of Juan Ramon Jiménez on:
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Princeton Public Library
Admission FREE
See the Princeton Library magazine article here.
Pre-concert talk [...]
My Weaving Olden Dances: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra will be given its North Carolina Premiere performance by the Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Conductor, on Saturday, April 9 – 8 PM at P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University, 625 7th Avenue NE in Hickory, North [...]
Pianist and staunch new music advocate Teresa McCollough will include the finale from my Vernacular Dances on her “Music for Hammers and Sticks II” concert at Santa Clara University’s Center of Performing Arts in Santa Clara, California on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 8PM.
Teresa recorded the entire work for [...]
I composed Weaving Olden Dances in 2007 as a finale piece for a small concert tour I did in Latvia with my own ensemble. Originally scored for clarinet, string quartet, piano 4-hands and bodhrán, I later orchestrated the piece as part of a multi-movement Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. At the [...]
The Colorado State University Percussion Ensemble, directed by Eric Hollenbeck, accepted an invitation to perform at the 2010 Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Indianapolis, IN. A performance at PASIC is the highest award a collegiate percussion ensemble can achieve; CSU is slotted for the new music literature session which [...]
Following on the success of her Juan Rulfo project, pianist Ana Cervantes has put together another multi-composer themed commissioning project entitled Song of the Monarch: Women in Mexico. Nearly 20 composers from around the world were commissioned to respond to the theme, which conflates the varied historical roles played by women in Mexican [...]
Following on the success of her Juan Rulfo project, pianist Ana Cervantes has put together another multi-composer themed commissioning project entitled Song of the Monarch: Women in Mexico. Nearly 20 composers from around the world were commissioned to respond to the theme, which conflates the varied historical roles played by women [...]
I had to check out from making any posts here for a while, but for good reason. With about 4 weeks lead time, about 6 weeks ago I left Latvia to begin a new teaching position at Full Sail University, a school focussed primarily on digital media arts just outside Orlando, Florida. I’m [...]
In case anyone experiences a similar unhappy morning coffee surprise:
I just upgraded my WordPress to version 3.0. I used Automatic Upgrade, and, as one should, I deactivated all plugins before enacting the upgrade. The upgrade was successful, and then I started reactivating the plugins. After activating WP Super Cache, I found myself with a [...]
San Francisco Choral Artists are marking their 25th anniversary season with three concerts, featuring 25 works by 25 composers, directed by Magen Solomon. The program includes my Rekviem, a setting in Russian of a short but beautiful and moving text by Anna Akhmatova.
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Most pieces can be auditioned on their post pages. But you can sample some audio here.

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Charles Griffin recently returned to the U.S. after spending 5 years living and working in Latvia. His compositions and arrangements have been performed at festivals and concert halls throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Recent projects include commissions from pianist Ana Cervantes and the Colorado State University Percussion Ensemble.
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