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Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents a concert of music for solo recorder performed by David Barnett. Works include Lizard (1998) by Welsh composer Alan Huddinot, Voice of the Crocodile for bass recorder by Australian composer Benjamin Thorn, Alrune (Mandrake) (1979) by Swiss composer, Roland Moser, The Bird and The Donkey (2002) by Pete Rose and diverse other works from other countries and times. Most of the works explore the extended possibilities of the recorder and include some degree of improvisation.

David Barnett was a very bad boy while a student in the New York City school system. His punishment was to play the recorder for the principal once a week. While this did not necessarily solve his behavior problems, he did find that he enjoyed the recorder and has been playing music on it and clarinet ever since. As a recorder soloist, he has presented the full range of the instrument's literature from medieval to modern. In a past life, he was the music director for the notorious San Francisco arts group, the Noh Oratorio Society. From 2006-07 he was a visiting artist at Cal Arts. He now lives in Sebastopol and teaches privately in the San Francisco Bay Area. David and recorder player/composer Tom Bickley perform as Three Trapped Tigers.