An amazing composition and performance(s) that highlights the versatility of the cello.  But more importantly, your music has depth and soul.

Taken from the album 'Woodwind Multiples' due for release via Modern Love on July 7th. 2023.

8B4 (1985/2022) is played by Manuel Zurria and is for four bass flutes. It is a revision of 8x4, which was written in 1985 for the DownTown Ensemble and was only performed once, due to its unusual instrumentation: alto flute, English horn (originally bass oboe), clarinet, and voice.

Woodwind Multiples

Mary Jane Leach - 8B4

Tom Morrison Messages In The Ground

ALLEGORY for bassoon, live electronics & lights

Diapason: Nev Wendell (trumpet), Nick Ginsburg (French horn), Mattie Barbier (trombone), Mason Moy (tuba).


live recording at Automata Arts Dec. 17, 2023

Sarah Davachi- Long Gradus (brass version)

FOR_VOICE_VERSION_II_2023 for alto voice and live electronics

Premiered by Gallicantus on February 29th, 2024 in Princeton, NJ. Photo by Bolton Howes.


TEXT

Ad mortem sic vita fluit, velut ad mare flumen.
Vivere nam res est dulcis, amara mori. 

— John Owen (1564–1622)


Translation: 

So life flows to death, as a river to the sea.
For to live is a sweet thing, to die is bitter

PROGRAM NOTE

The text of this piece, a latin epigram by the Welsh poet John Owen, touches on the inherent melancholy bound up in the human experience. My setting is an attempt to evoke certain facets of this melancholy, such as the unsettling feeling of time slipping away.

Sic vita fluit (2024) for five voices [ATTBB]

perforat[interfer]e explores acoustic phenomena as music material generator. 

Recorded by Cadeaux Quartet at the Ryan Opera Theatre, Northwestern University.

Soprano: Philip Kleutgens
Alto: Yun Qu Tan
Tenor: Brian Kachur
Baritone: Natalia Warthen

perforat[interfer]e (saxophone quartet)

New York Premiere of Transparent Balance, performed by Walter Aparicio on November 16, 2023 in the David Rubenstein Atrium of Lincoln Center.

Transparent Balance (2021)

Performed by Erin Lesser on May 2nd, 2024, at Northwestern University.

Karaksa (2024), for alto flute and electronics

Intern al bianco by Beat Furrer
US Premiere
Either/Or concert at the Library of Congress on February 18th, 2017
Vasko Dukovski clarinet, Jennifer Choi and Pala Garcia violins, Erin Wight viola, John Popham cello

www.eitherormusic.org

Stabat Mater for Violoncello and Six Prerecorded Violoncellos (2019)

Carlos Bandera

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