Tim Woos has been composing with the Vermont MIDI Project since he was in seventh grade in 2005. This winter he was featured on From the Top, taped at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and broadcast on National Public Radio in mid May. You can listen to the entire show in the From the Top archives. The same program also featured the Vermont Youth Orchestra.

Tim tells us that Christopher O'Reilly told him how much he enjoyed the composition performed in the program for bassoon quartet and wondered if he had anything for piano. Tim presented O'Reilly with his score Here and Now, written for Opus 17 and performed in December 2008. O'Reilly performed Here and Now for the "break" in the live taping in Portland, Maine in March 25th. Here's a video of that performance taken by Joanne Robinson at the dress rehearsal. Her complete blog of the event can be found online.

O'Reilly has performed Tim's piece several times now in his solo piano show in various locations around the country.