"What better way to celebrate the first day of autumn than with the release of an upbeat, autumn-themed album?  Autumn Bells looks forward rather than back, making us miss the summer a little less.  The timing – both physical and emotional – could not be better." - Richard Allen, A Closer Listen

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The Spaces In Between

Huldra

Gidge - Huldra

feat. Hilary Abigana, flute; C. Neil Parsons, trombone / theatrical design;  Greg Jukes, percussion; David Russell, cello; Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano; Rose Hegele, dance. 

April 10, 2025; Boston Conservatory ("Symbiosis")

This piece is not necessarily “about” fireflies, but it can be if you want. The title aims to evoke the gentle qualities of nighttime, stillness, luminescence, and certain rhythmic qualities. It is really a piece about the simple beauty of repetition, the colors of the different instrumental tones, and resonance. It’s about taking one’s time. 

Originally written for two violins and premiered by Sharan Leventhal and Clara Mazo as simply fireflies, this arrangement created specifically for Symbiosis brings together all the performers of the concert. The work has also been arranged for solo piano.

https://www.ryansuleiman.com/fireflies-gather
https://www.ryansuleiman.com/symbiosis

fireflies gather (2025)

Journey of Season is a song cycle for vocal quartet, clarinet and piano on the poetry of May Sarton. Performed by Amici Tonic Vocal Ensemble:
Cynthia Perotti, soprano
Beth Pittman, mezzo, soprano
Matt Pittman, tenor
Kevin Perotti, bass
Gail Zugger, clarinet
Philip Everingham, piano

8) My Image Is A Garden

Soprano, Felicia Chen
electronics, Bahar Royaee

Kitchen, is the result of a close collaboration with vocalist Felicia Chen.

Based on a well-known lullaby from northwest Iran, the composer deconstructs and reconstructs the folktune, moving through exploration of phonemes derived from the text, resonance space, vowel filters, and speed of airflow. Royaee supplements the lullaby with recorded sounds from a kitchen, which is an important place of family gathering in Iran. The composer envisions her mother sitting in her kitchen in Iran, thinking of her daughter. 
The text is derived from a poetry by Yadollah Royaee, who has a collection of poetries, all depicting various tombstones, for different people. The selected poetry was written for his best friends and the most famous female contemporary poet in Iran, Fourth Farrokhzad. Yadollah royaee is in exile.

“With every step of yours, I become divorced from the soil. One sip of the loam, and plowing is reminiscent of the horizon.

	با هر قدم تو از خاک دور میشوم،
یک جرعه خاک،
و شخم،
دلتنگ افق میشد.

Kitchen| for soprano, fixed media and live electronics

Performed by Clarinetist Wes Warnhoff and The University of Missouri Percussion Ensemble, Megan Arns conductor
Night Wanderings scored for clarinet solo and percussion ensemble is a musical fantasy about traveling through space.  The piece tells the story of a solo space traveler who maneuvers through the wonders and perils of deep space. The traveler has many amazing experiences ranging from floating past beautiful planets and their moons to maneuvering through a dangerous field of meteors. There is a gradual tempo accelerando though out the work that ends with the space ship entering Warp 5 and beyond. Night Wanderings is written for the virtuoso clarinetist, Kliment Krylovskiy and the UCF Percussion Ensemble. The structure of the piece is in three sections with a duration of ten minutes.  My aesthetic goal for this work is to compose a piece, which explores all aspects of clarinet playing from highly expressive and lyrical to extremely virtuosic. The first section is slow and dream like using the percussion ensemble to create a mysterious and atmospheric background for the clarinet. The instruments work together in a homogeneous manner to produce colorful and intricate colleges of sound. The second section is in a more playful mood where dialogue between the clarinet and percussion instruments occurs. From the beginning, the piece gradually gets faster and faster finally leading to a more aggressive and virtuosic third section that includes a cadenza for the clarinet and also one for the percussion ensemble. This builds to an exciting and virtuosic conclusion.

Night Wanderings for Clarinet and Percussion Quartet

Andrew List

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