Recent Projects

Musical Play, working title To Be A Gloucesterman, based on life of Edward Day Cohota (1845-1935, direct ancestor); first performance at Gloucester Stage Theatre, Oct. 7, 2023.

https://www.nps.gov/foun/learn/historyculture/edward-day-cohota.htm

BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, New York, NY (2022-2024) Creation of original songs, scenes and musicals in collaboration with other writers.

LaMaMa Umbria (Italy) 2023 International Playwright Retreat, accepted for Aug, 2023

Recent Compositions

The Song of the Emperor (2022), for male voice and piano: cycle of five songs with texts from

Emperor of China: Portrait of K’ang-Hsi, by Jonathan D. Spence, premiered in Utrecht,The Netherlands, Nov. 2022

Song #5: The Iron Tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oiyDQDfMI

Entire Cycle:

https://studio.youtube.com/video/VFK2A7-SaH8/edit

Suite for handbells, harp and cello, commissioned by The Perkins Ringers

Part I: Carrollton Street Rag (2022), premiere in New Orleans, May, 2023

The First Strawberry, Cherokee legend, performed June, 2021, Central Park, NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAcj8AaNYY

Recent Performances

Rhodes Less Traveled Solo cabaret show created and performed by David Rhodes,

Premiered 2021 in New York, 2022-23 New Orleans and Boston. Pianist, arranger.

https://www.facebook.com/david.rhodes.75/videos/613073759979157

Performances and recordings in Portugal, Spain and Eastern Europe (2010-15)

CD of Ravel’s G Major Piano Concerto and Concerto for the Left Hand.

https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B004G1YQNQ?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1623491795&sr=8-1

Creative Works