Travis Orbin
Sophia Uddin - Biography
Description: Music by Gabriel Riccio
In 2014, Duo Verico (Sam Lorber and Becki Simon) commissioned me to write an 8 minute piece for flute and alto saxophone to be performed at the Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium in January 2015. They just finished editing a video of a new recording of the piece, which can be viewed above. The piece was an interesting challenge for me, as I’m a very chordal musical thinker – writing for 2 monophonic instruments was a bit outside my wheelhouse, even moreso with a deadline, but it was fun to take on.
In other news, I moved to Baltimore, which is the reason for the long silence.
I recently appeared on the podcast You Should Check It Out , which is co-hosted by Greg Loman , a fantastic guitarist who played on quite a bit of future TGC material. He worked with Roger Waters at Walter Reed hospital with the group The Resilient and collaborated with his son Harry Waters on The Halcyon , a short film on Dust. I had a great time talking to Greg and his friends Nick Kline and Jay Rossman. This is the first time I’ve gotten to publicly talk about my own music outside of form interviews, and
Travis Orbin
Sophia Uddin - Biography