Recordings

Winter & Construction: Music of Scott Brickman

2012 Ravello Records, April 24 release date

"Sonatas 2 & 3" for solo piano
"Snowball" and "Winter & Construction" for Strung Out Trio

Irrational Exuberance: Collaboration V

2011 Beauport Classical

"Trio", by John Carollo; written for the Strung Out Trio

Brian Hulse: Pseudosynthesis

2009 Albany Records TROY1094

< listen > "pinch"

Reviews:

“...May performs the music with incredible precision and his dynamics bring to life the moods and feelings of boldness, resoluteness, echoing, playfulness, dancing, sensuousness, confidence, and reflectivity." (Brad Conroy, GuitarInternational.com)

“...Pinch mutates with a quicksilver grace from one mood and/or state to another.... Performances are beautiful... extraordinary performers - something American culture should celebrate....” (Robert Carl, Fanfare)

“The album starts with a jolt, the discordant chords in Pinch seizing the attention like an abrupt poke in the ribs. The pianist Nathanael May infuses an impetuous personality into this piece composed especially for him” (Sarah Canice Funke, suite101.com)

Fables, Forms & Fears: The chamber music of Paul Richards

2007 Meyer Media Records MM07008

< listen > "falling on lobsters in the dark"

Reviews:

“Without exception, all involved in this project give outstanding performances, the superb quality of the playing easily matching the high musical content…. if you want to listen to first-class, modern-day chamber music played exceptionally well, then seek no further.” (Steve Marsh, Classical Guitar)

“At no time do you feel that the piano overwhelms the other two instruments, as it quite easily could. Of course it helps to have sympathetic interpreters as Richards does here.” (Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill)