Cadenza Productions
Connecting artists & orchestras
Playing your music with an orchestra can be extraordinary.
Whether it’s a string quartet, a chamber ensemble, or a full symphony orchestra, orchestral instruments can bring an entirely new dimension to music you already know. They can add scale and intimacy, uncover colors and emotions that have always been there, and transform familiar songs into something completely new.
But creating a great orchestral performance takes more than simply adding an orchestra.
It starts with understanding the music—what makes it distinctive, what should remain untouched, and where an orchestra can support, amplify, or completely reimagine it. From there, the artistic vision has to become arrangements, musicians, rehearsals, technology, sound, and ultimately a performance.
Cadenza Productions brings those worlds together. I work at the intersection of artists and orchestras, combining a deep connection to the music with an understanding of how orchestral performance actually works—from the first creative conversation to the moment everyone walks onstage.
At heart, it’s about finding what an orchestra can uniquely bring to your music.
Know the music. Find the vision. Bring it to life.
More Than an Arrangement
Performing with an orchestra can be exhilarating. But creating an orchestral show that feels authentic to you and your music requires much more than writing some string parts and putting musicians onstage.
It begins with a creative vision. What should your music become? What should the orchestra bring to it? Where should it support the band, where should it take the lead, and where might it transform the music entirely? What should remain exactly as it is?
Then that vision has to become something real. Arrangers need to be chosen and guided. Scores and parts need to be written. The right orchestra and conductor need to be assembled. Rehearsals have to be planned around the very different ways bands and orchestras prepare. Tracks, click, monitoring and amplification have to work together. And if the show travels, the musical and production model needs to travel with it.
These are two very different musical worlds. Artists, bands and touring productions have their own language, rhythms and ways of working. So do orchestras, conductors, arrangers and classical musicians.
Bringing them together requires understanding both.
And it takes time. A great orchestral performance may last an hour or two. Creating one can take months.
Know the Music
Every project starts with the music.
I only take on a project if I am deeply familiar with and connected to your work. It’s important to me that I show up as a fan first, so that I can truly honor your music with passion and enthusiasm - its influences, its language, its emotional world, and the things that should never be lost in translation. I will work to make this succeed because I already care deeply about the music.
Understand Both Worlds
Artists and orchestras come from very different musical worlds.
Bands, touring crews and contemporary music production have one way of creating and performing. Orchestras, conductors and arrangers have another. Each has its own language, expectations, workflows and culture.
I work in the space between them - helping artists and orchestras understand one another, work together, and ultimately sound like they belong together.
What It Takes
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What I Do
I bring all of it together.
I serve as the orchestral producer for the project—working alongside the artist, management and music team from the earliest creative conversations through the final performance.
My role isn't to replace the arranger, conductor, orchestra, production team or audio engineers. It's to make sure all of them are working toward the same artistic vision.
I help define what we're making, assemble the right musical and production team to make it, and oversee the orchestral workstream as the project moves from idea to arrangement, rehearsal and performance.
Depending on the project, that can mean developing the orchestral concept, selecting and managing arrangers, building budgets and timelines, assembling orchestras, identifying conductors, coordinating recordings and tracks, planning rehearsals, working with audio and production teams, overseeing performances, and creating a model that can travel from one stage to the next.
One person connecting the music, the artist, the orchestra and the production.
Previous Symposia
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Lux Aeterna
A STUDY OF REQUIEMS [March 2026]
A deep dive into the meaning and purpose of the Requiem Mass, tracing its origins in the 15th century through to modern expressions. Together, we looked into the liturgical text and musical interpretations, as well as explored how cultures around the world approach the passing from living to dead.
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Echoes of the Self
BEETHOVEN’S STRING QUARTETS [December 2025]
This music is as much a musical triumph as it is a glimpse into the soul. They mirror a soul in evolution: from youthful elegance to heroic confrontation, and, ultimately to private meditation and transcendence. -
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The Hero, The Journey, and the Call
STRAUSS’S TONE POEMS [September 2025]
Richard Strauss’s music embodies the hero’s journey, through struggle, triumph, and transformation. His compositions bring to life this journey’s archetypes, trials, and revelations. Together, we explored Strauss’s musical storytelling, uncovering how this music challenges and expands our understanding of heroism, identity, and the human experience.
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Regime & Revolution
SHOSTAKOVICH & STALIN [March 2025]
Composing under the umbrella of a brutal regime, this music expresses the deepest of tragedy and suffering, and the peaks of triumph. We examined this music in the context of human emotion in the face of totalitarianism, war and struggle, and Russian history, arriving at a better understanding of how this history and these historic experiences shape our own lives today.
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I Shall Die So As To Live
MAHLER’S SECOND SYMPHONY [August 2024]
Our first Cadenza Conversation was an unforgettable exploration into the musical, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions of this grand symphony. We dissected the symphony’s profound themes: from the hero's journey, life and death, religious expressions like The Last Judgment and Resurrection, to the relevance of religious liberty in modern life.
Want to Be A Part Of These?
We're on the lookout for passionate music aficionados and scholars to be part of our exclusive events. If you're eager to join our community and potentially participate in a future Cadenza Conversation, reach out to us! Let your enthusiasm for music lead the way.