AS AT FIRST (2011) by Adam Sherkin: I. Speed Trace 
Adam Sherkin, piano

Sample Track from AS AT FIRST, released on the Centrediscs label in November 2012. Copyright © by Canadian Music Centre, 2012.

Producer: David Jaeger 
Digital Editing and Mastering: David Jaeger 
Recording Engineer: Dennis Patterson 
Program notes: Adam Sherkin 
Cover Painting: Gail Williams 
Cover Painting Photographs: Nick Kozak 
Cover Design: Emma Jenkin 
Graphic Design: Mark Hand 
Translation : Véronique Robert 

Canadian Music Centre: Elisabeth Bihl, Executive Director 
Centrediscs: Allegra Young, Producer 
Recording Dates and Locations: Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto : November 24, 2011 and January 23, March 13, April 25 & June 17, 2012.

All works on this album are written and performed by Adam Sherkin. 

CMC CD18212 2012 Centrediscs /Centredisques

All rights reserved by the Canadian Music Centre. Made in Canada.

The full album is available for download at: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/as-at-first/id578752373

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AS AT FIRST (2011) by Adam Sherkin: I. Speed Trace; performed by Adam Sherkin

F.J. Haydn:  Sonata In B-flat major, Hob.XVI :41, 1st mvmt

Originally entitled: 
Sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche, fait a Paris, et se joüe bien sentiment et à la discrétion

The Tombeau performed here is representative of Johann Jakob Froberger's most expressive, deeply wrought aesthetic.  Haunting - at times hopeless - lyrical lines weave amidst a starkly alien backdrop of death and despair.  This Tombeau was written after Froberger witnessed the death of his closest friend, Monsieur Blancrocher.  Froberger's postscript to the piece, (originally in Latin), reads as follows: 

"Note bene. One day Monsieur Blancheroche, an excellent lutenist in Paris and best friend of Herr Froberger, took a stroll with the latter in the royal garden after a dinner held by Madame de St. Thomas. On his return home he climbed the stairs to take care of a couple of things and fell down so severely that he had to be carried to bed by his wife, his son, and several others. Herr Froberger recognized the danger of the situation and sent for a physician. When several surgeons had arrived they let the blood from his damaged foot. Also present was Monsieur de Termes, to whom Monsieur Blancheroche entrusted his boy. Shortly thereafter he took his last breath and departed from this life."

From a live recording: Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto on November 24th, 2011. Recording engineers: David Jaeger and Dennis Patterson

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Tombeau fait à Paris sur la mort de M. Blancrocher (FbWV 632) by J.J. Froberger; Adam Sherkin, piano

"JFK"  
Opera by David T. Little (composer)and  Royce Vavrek (librettist)
"Prologue - Spin, Measure, Cut" 

Fort Worth Opera Chorus
Fort Worth Symphony
Texas Boys Choir
Talise Trevinge As Clara Harris
Steven Osgood, Conductor 

From the orchestral workshop, September 18, 2015, Fort Worth Opera


Fort Worth Opera, Lead Commissioner
Opéra de Montréal, Co-Commissioner
American Lyric Theater, Developmental Co-Commissioner

Copyright © 2015 by Hendon Music, Inc.
a Boosey & Hawkes company.
International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

Posted with permission by Boosey & Hawkes and Fort Worth Opera.

For more information, see: http://www.fwopera.org/opera/jfk/

JFK -  Prologue - Spin, Measure, Cut

Premiered by Karl Larson at the Rose Recital Hall, Philadelphia, March 2016.

www.karllarsonpiano.com

blinding blizzards, blurring, broken

Christina Volpini, composer.

Premiered 27 May 2017 at Array Space, Toronto ON. Part of the Array Young Composers Workshop 2017.

Stephen Sitarski, violin
Colleen Cook, clarinet
David Schotzko, percussion
Stephen Clark, piano
Rick Sacks, conductor

garden of forking paths (2017)

MORE THAN EARTHLY MEAT AND DRINK, Op. 26 (2018) by Adam Sherkin
Poetry by David James Brock (*2017)

Three songs for soprano & piano | Adanya Dunn, soprano; Adam Sherkin, piano

1) The Soprano is Offered a New Liver for her Voice [00:00] 
2) The Composer is Offered Height for his Ability to Compose [03:24]
3) The Dancer is Offered Perfect Health for Everything Else [05:45]

Recorded live at the premiere performance, The Glenn Gould Studio, Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto on April 5th, 2018.

Engineered and re-mixed by Pouya Hamidi [www.pouyahamidi.com]

Copyright © 2018 by Adam Sherkin

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*  Words used by permission of David James Brock. Published in Ten-Headed Alien. (Wolsak and Wynn Ltd)

More Than Earthly Meat And Drink, Op. 26 by Adam Sherkin; Adanya Dunn, soprano & Adam Sherkin, piano

"If I Had One More Day" by Polina Nazaykinskaya and Konstantin Soukhovetski. Poem by Gerald Appelstein.
Performed by Michael Corvino, baritone and Konstantin Soukhovetski, piano

If I had one more day

I’d spend it driving to your fav’rite place

Catching you every time you fell 

Showing care, always wishing well


If I had one more hour

I’d make sure to ask `bout your secret dreams

Hoping you might ease your mind

Thinking that I could have helped in time

Finding a way to share in the things you love

Wondering if you know all this from above

Silly to feel time will never waste away

Now it has stopped, wish you had planned to stay

If I had one more minute

I’d try so hard to hug your face

If I had one more minute

I’d try so hard to hug your face and say farewell


Breaking away from those who would steal

Listening well that you knew it was real


One more, one more… 


If I had one more second 

I’d stop to take a picture of your smile

Watching you light up the room

Clenching this last beat until the gloom


Finding a way to endure without your love

Wond`ring if you know this up above

Finding a way to endure without your love

With you high above

With you high above

"If I Had One More Day" based on the poem by Gerald Appelstein

Musical Toronto podcast interview with tenor Bud Roach about performances of "Giuseppe" by Luigi Rossi in Hamilton and Toronto on March 16 & 17, 2013

Interview with Bud Roach of Capella Intima, March 13, 2013

Pianist/Composer Adam Sherkin is a dynamic and versatile musician who commands a multi-dimensional approach to performance and composition. Adam has appeared in performance at the Four Seasons Centre, the St. Lawrence Centre, the Glenn Gould Studio, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Covent Garden and the Royal Albert Hall. Adam's works been premiered throughout Canada, the United States and Britain including Toronto, Ottawa, Washington, Philadelphia, Manchester and London (UK). Venues have included the Luminato Festival, the Spotlight Festival (Waterloo), the King’s Lynn Festival (Norfolk), The Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), The Warehouse and the National Portrait Gallery in London. 

An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, Adam is set to release his debut recording on Centrediscs, As at First, in November of 2012. 


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