The Badger Game is a set of seven songs for guitar, voice, clarinet, viola, piano, and theorbo (a sort of giant 17th-century lute). The general theme is friends, past and present. It's a living-room-feel album, with all the intimate details of the instruments's sounds on full display.

Get the physical CD.
Get it on iTunes.

Also available on emusic, rhapsody, napster, and various such lovely outlets.

E. Henry David has published my vocal piece (SSA) Mistranslations. It's available online (and in stores) from Theodore Presser.

...over at NYC Performing Arts Spaces.

Spent ten days in Serbia as a visiting composer for South Oxford Six's Summer in Sombor workshop. American and Serbian composers, together with the Quintet Quartet woodwind quintet, working hard and playing hard. It ended with two concerts, one in Sombor and one in Novi Sad, premiering my Map #1 for woodwind quintet. I fell in love with Serbia, where the people are warm and welcoming, the countryside is beautiful, and the rakija flows freely!

I'm happy to have received the Con Edison Flushing Town Hall Composer's Residency. For the next three months I'll be doing my writing in the beautiful and historic Flushing Town Hall, either in the warm, spacious theater or the gallery next to the garden. In either the Fall or Spring, they will host a workshop or concert of my music.

The Mapmaker's Daughter is the third album from the M Shanghai String Band. Snap it up at Amazon or iTunes.

Scotchsnap, music publisher in Scotland, has taken on a bunch of my bagpipe tunes.

Portland, Maine showed me a fine time during my long weekend there -- lengthy radio interview on WMPG, "music of matt schickele" composer presentation at the University of Southern Maine, and a wonderful M Shanghai show at One Longfellow Square. Thanks, Portland!

Air for Saw and Cello was performed by Philippa Thomson and Rose Bellini at MASS MoCA: Bang on a Can: Summer Music Institute. You can check it out on YouTube.

Matt Schickele's Air for Saw And Cello will be premiered at the 2008 NYC Musical Saw Festival. Philippa Thompson, saw; Rose Bellini, cello. The festival starts at 2pm with a concert of saw music, and then continues into the evening with saw-related activities and workshops.
Trinity Church Astoria, 31-18 37th Street
R train to Steinway Street,  or N/W train to Broadway.
$10 at the door