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Works

Watch Sophie Shao, cello and John Blacklow, piano play when the moon was covered, movement 2 of The Layers.

NEW ALBUM RELEASE MAY 2023
The Layers
Sophie Shao cello
John Blacklow piano
Marnie Breckenridge soprano
Michael Brofman piano
Dave Eggar cello
Thomas Bagwell piano

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Two Stoppard Songs is featured on the critically acclaimed first album from the Brooklyn Art Song Society. Click here to order.
Listen to an excerpt from one of Herschel's pieces for large orchestra, American Steel, commissioned by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
American Steel - The Alabama Symphony, Chris Confessore cond.
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An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope, an album benefiting amfAR, features three songs composed and/or with lyrics by Herschel. Click here to order.
Listen to one movement from Herschel's String Quartet No.1, "Cumbia & Trio"
as played by the Lark Quartet
Cumbia & Trio (from String Quartet No.1) - The Lark Quartet
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Listen to orchestral and piano/vocal selections from the forthcoming opera
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Music and Libretto by Herschel Garfein
Based on the play by Tom Stoppard
WATCH "The Game of Questions" from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Featuring Keith Phares and Andrew Garland in a workshop production directed by Mark Morris.
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