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Chosen Vale 2013 is now accepting applications. This years faculty is incredible and it should be a wonderful couple of weeks. Apply for the Seminar HERE! Here are some Great Photos from Chosen Vale 2012.

I am so thrilled to share my first solo record, Simple Songs. I am also so happy that it is on New Focus Recordings! I am a big fan of the label and my labelmates.

Tracks have already had some spins on New Sounds on WNYC and the I Care If You Listen Fall Mixtape.

I am a proud to be a new resident of Chicago, IL! To celebrate, all of my new friends and I played Inuksuit in Millennium Park in a downpour! It was quite a day. None of us will forget that for a long time! Here are reviews and pics from
The Chicago Sun Times, I Care If You Listen, The Chicago Tribune, and Flickr.

Chosen Vale 2012 was AMAZING!!! Between the incredible participants and peerless faculty, this year was beyond inspiring. Here are some Great Photos

For the summer solstice this year, vibraphonists all over the world came together to perform many performances of Erik Satie’s Vexations. Want to watch a complete performance from Aman, Jordan, Australia, Mexico City, or New York? The performances all live here: A Worldwide Day of Vexations

Todd and I were thrilled to release our CD “Travel Diary” on Bridge Records in early November.  Recently it was named a Q2 Music Album of the Week!  Buy your own copy here.

I was fortunate to join Tristan Perich on a performance of his own Impermament for tubular bells at La Sala in Brooklyn.  Check out what the Village Voice had to say about the show!

After a year of incredible performances of Inuksuit, team JLA was recognized among the year’s 10 best musical events in New York City three times over!  See what the New Yorker and Time Out New York had to say about Inuksuit at the Armory, and read what NY Magazine said about Inuksuit in Morningside Park.

Todd and I have a new CD of early percussion music that just came out. It is called “Restless, Endless, Tactless – Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music”. I am so proud of this project! It is a great collection of little known music that helped define our repertoire. It also features the Baylor Percussion Group and Matt McClung with great help and direction by John Kennedy. It is on New World Records. Buy it here.

Check out the Meehan/ Perkins Vic Firth Artist Page HERE.