Taking a little break from making music, I designed a logo cap for our neighborhood, the Upper West Side, where I’ve lived now for thirty years. I’ve always wanted to carry the…
New Collaboration with Chinyakare Ensemble & San Francisco Symphony
Newly released — a collaboration between the Chinyakare Ensemble and the San Francisco Symphony, featuring arrangements by Ljova in collaboration with Chinyakare’s lead musician Russell Landers
New Video: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? (song by Ljova)
Close friends know that I have a Tom Lehrer side that rarely leaves the house…
Instatunes continued
Back in October I posted a few tunes I composed while busking in our neighborhood,…
Vocalise featuring Amal El-Shrafi (video premiere)
video premiere: “Vocalise” for soprano and fadolín, commissioned by the Refugee Orchestra Project, featuring Amal El-Shrafi
Flor de Mayo – waltz for PBS Documentary “Hemingway”
Hemingway, A Film By Ken Burns And Lynn Novick. Original Music From The PBS Documentary…
Natalia Lafourcade – Alfonsina y El Mar (featuring fadolíns by Ljova)
Grateful to have contributed some fadolín and arranging to this incredibly beautiful performance of the…
Let it Snow
Testing out Fred Gayford’s brand new fadolín (barely two weeks old) in some real-world conditions…
Alma Llanera – arr Ljova for LA Phil / Gustavo Dudamel
Grateful to have contributed a new arrangement of the Venezuelan joropo “Alma Llanera” for this…
Blue Mini
Hear yee .. 47 seconds of a nice fiddle tune — showed up this afternoon…