May | 2015 | Justin Friello

VIDEO: Graphic Scores #6-14

May 18, 2015

This video is taken from the May 12, 2015 performance of Graphic Scores #6-14. The performance took place at my alma mater, Schenectady High School during the 10th annual Composers’ Forum. The Forum was started by me and my friend Lecco Morris at the end of our junior year of high school—2006—because we’re both composers of […]

Mother’s Day

May 10, 2015

I wrote a song for my mother eleven years ago called “Lay Me Down”. It remains one of my favorite songs lyrically, and I continue to perform it in concert. And despite having written it when I was 14, I think there’s a surprising amount of self-awareness and genuine filial sentiment without any of the […]