A new piece for Fl, Cl, Perc, Vln, Vlc, Db.

Adam Scime - Broken Images (performed by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne)

The Thin Edge Collective performs my piece for Violin, Baritone Sax, Piano, and Percussion.  The piece pays homage to the late composer Fausto Romitelli.  I have taken select quotes from the composer's output and created an original work as a tribute to the influence Romitelli continues to have on my own work.

homage a Fausto Romitelli (performed by the Thin Edge Collective)

Featuring violinist Véonique Mathieu and text by Canadian poet Oana Avasilichioaei. This piece was generously commissioned by Daniel Cooper and premiered by New Music Concerts.

From What Hand To Speak - For Soprano and Violin

Performed by Ensemble contemporain du Montréal and written for the 2016 ECM+ Generations Project

Liminal Pathways - for Chamber Ensemble

Recorded and performed by Véronique Mathieu and Stephanie Chua for the True North CD and released on the Centrediscs label.

05 Gradual Erasures  II. Palimpsest

04 Gradual Erasures  I. Traces

An excerpt from my piece Surfacing for Orchestra commissioned by the Esprit orchestra and premiered in Toronto in 2017

Surfacing For Orchestra - Excerpt

An excerpt from Rise for Stereophonic Orchestra commissioned by the Esprit Orchestra and premiered in Toronto in 2014

Rise for Stereophonic Orchestra - Excerpt

Written for Continuum Contemporary Music and soloist Wallace Halladay. This piece is the result of the Canadian Music Centre Toronto Emerging Composer Award. Premiered by Continuum on November 2nd, 2018 in Toronto.

Program Note

phase-amplique is a piece inspired by my recent interest with how different types of ontological or existential anxiety may affect performative activities. There exists an existential angst or an ontological anxiety inherent in art that is not simply anxiety driven, but a state of being aware of an ontological displacement, of incompleteness, of being on the edge, of never being at rest, complete, or securely in the centre. In this piece I have attempted to create a series of musical states that mirror this emotional state of restlessness - of continuous wanting of something added - while resisting to release that which is already there. This piece represents the outcome of the 2015 Canadian Music Centre Toronto Emerging Composer Award. I would like to extend my gratitude to the Koerner Foundation for funding the project, The Canadian Music Centre, Wallace Halladay, and Continuum Contemporary Music for presenting the piece. - Adam Scime.

phase-amplique for solo saxophone, chamber ensemble, and electronics

New Music Concerts performs my new piece for Soprano and Ensemble with Carla Huhtanen as soloist (1st movement excerpt, text by James Joyce)

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