Lois' New Music Box article,"Escaping the Nutcracker Suite: Composing for the 21st Century's Piccolo Player" is available to read here. This includes guidelines for the composers' use of the piccolo in solo, chamber and orchestral writing. Composition students at of University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Leeds (England) and Berkeley are using for the article as a resource in their composition classes.

Lois worked with each living composer on her solo piccolo CD as well as receiving private coachings from Vincent Persichetti while a student in college. For CD testimonials see the testimonials page. For detailed information on "Take Wing" go to DISCOGRAPHY page.

From eighteen years worth of experience with the new music ensemble Orchestra 2001, Lois has worked closely with many 20th and 21st Century composers such as Tan Dun, Gunther Schuller, George Rochberg and Andrea Clearfield.

Information on Lois' recent commission: David Finko's Piccolo Concerto

Updated on 7/20/08