- for mezzo soprano, string octet & piano

feat. Gloria Palermo

endless thanks to all the performers! ~ Joanna Duncan, Carson Marshall, Giancarlo Latta, Teddy Schenkman, Austin Simmons, Francesca McNeeley, Matthew Gustafson, August Ramos, Yurie Farnsworth

Text:

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when we meet
take my hands in yours
and fold my fingers into bone.
I know you,
and now my jaw grows long,
and my bones soft
like clay

do as you will
and I will carry the wreath
you place upon my head
into the woods
invisible, my skin changed
to hide, coarse
and brown,
the color of the trees.

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Clare Glackin is a composer of instrumental and vocal concert works whose music has been performed by the Culver City Symphony, USC Symphony, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, and others. She seeks to craft music that is engaging, unique, and fulfilling for both performers and audiences. 

Also an oboist, Clare has played in various premieres of student compositions, including performances at USC, Brevard Music Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. She has been a member of the USC Concert Orchestra (receiving the USC Concert Orchestra Award in 2015), and Rice Campanile. 

Clare is currently based in Houston, TX, where she is studying for her MM at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. She graduated with a BM from USC’s Thornton School of Music, where she was named a Discovery Scholar and Outstanding Graduate of the composition program. Clare’s primary teachers have been Stephen Hartke, Frank Ticheli, Pierre Jalbert and Richard Lavenda.

Austin Theriot is a composer from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He studied Music Composition at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University from 2014-2015 and graduated from Concordia University, Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 2018. 

Wesbite: https://www.austinmtheriot.com/ 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyyEciY9Jw2mqY0ETlEINiw
Contact: austinmtheriot(at)gmail.com

John Albert Harris is a composer, producer, and creator of cinematic graphic novels. He is based in New York City.

Refer to my YouTube page for my recent works as they contain videos. 

Turkish-American composer and violinist Ali Can Puskulcu has been recently awarded a Charles Ives Scholarship Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fromm Foundation Commission from Harvard University and a Copland House Residency Award. His debut album “Gibberish Shreds” was released by New Focus Recordings, and he also performed the “Gibberish Shreds Vol. 1,” from his album, at the MATA Festival in New York City. Ali’s chamber music piece “Wired” was premiered by wild-Up ensemble at Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight series in Walt Disney Hall. He has also received the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his ensemble piece “Broken,” and as a chosen composer, he performed his solo violin piece “Point G” at Lincoln Center in New York City. Additional performances took place at Gaudeamus Muzikweek (Netherlands), Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France), Rutgers University, and the University of Southern California.
        	In 2007, Ali entered the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Dusseldorf, Germany under the instruction of Professor Ida Bieler.  In 2010 he was invited to the renowned Schwetzingen Festspiele as a guest artist to perform music by contemporary Turkish composers.  In July 2012, Ali graduated from the violin class of distinguished pedagogue, Rosa Fain.  He holds both a Bachelor and Master of Arts Diploma from the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule. In March 2013 Ali made his Carnegie Hall debut as the Second Prize Winner of the American Protégé Strings and Piano Competition. He was the winner of the Ereprijs Commission at YCM 2017 and wrote a new piece for Orkest de Ereprijs, which was premiered in March 2018.
        	Ali completed his Master of Music in music composition at the University of Southern California under the guidance of Andrew Norman and Donald Crockett. He is currently a PhD candidate in composition at Brandeis University.

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