From our forthcoming album MONDEGREEN
Out March 24th 2014
Available from http://peelerrecords.bandcamp.com/

Quinta - Violin, Piano
Rebecca Waterworth - Cello
Caroline Weeks - Flute
Alice Eldridge - Cello

Spell

Written for the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 2014 
at MASS MoCA, conducted by Brad Lubman and played by Bang on a Can Fellows

Ascension

Ken Thomson, clarinet
Emileigh Vandiver, cello
Stuart Fisher, electric guitar
Jeff Kolega, percussion
Jani Parsons, piano/synthesizer
Tristan Kasten-Krause, double bass

Cirrus (live, Bang On A Can Summer Festival @ Mass MoCA, 2014)

Knotted Silk

A demo in one take. 

voice - Charlotte Mundy
guitar - Jordan Dodson

composed by Charlotte Mundy.

These Fragile Snowflakes is a piece for SATB choir and piano. It is based on the poem "Poetry on Lake Simcoe" by Desi Di Nardo, and was commissioned and premiered by Jubilate Singers of Toronto ON in May 2014. It was the winner of the 2015 U of T Choral Composition Competition.

This recording is sung by the MacMillan Singers on December 6, 2015 in MacMillan Theatre, Toronto ON.

Lara Dodds-Eden, piano. Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor.

These Fragile Snowflakes (MacMillan Singers)

Soundstreams
text by Duncan McFarlane
Zorana Sadiq, soprano
Wesley Shen, piano
Daniel Morphy, percussion

The mathematician and philosopher Hypatia (4th-5th century AD) was one of Alexandria's most respected citizens and teachers. She was murdered during a city-wide political feud. The sensational myth that she was flayed by oystershells comes from a misreading of Socrates Scholasticus; nonetheless, her grisly end – kidnapped, flayed, mutilated, and then burned – stands symbolically alongside the burning of the great library at Alexandria.

she sells seashells by the seashore: 
shells sharp as shards of pots, broken 
roofs of broken homes, and floors, and rooms 
where books from ancient ships once rose; 
oystershells smoothed, shaped, sharpened through
the seas that whisper flesh from bone 
like linen slipping from the skin 
or smoke that slides up from the fires

ashes, ashes: sifting softly 
through the seasalt, to the seafloor; 
so she clothes herself with silence: 
bones of coral, eyes of pearl; 
nothing faded, all arranged into 
something new and strange.

(text by Duncan McFarlane)

Flay (for soprano, piano, and percussion)

Euphrosine's aria from Star-Shaped Biscuit, a semi-improvised opera conceived by David Toop.

Euphrosine's Aria from Star-Shaped Biscuit, a semi-improvised opera conceived by David Toop.

Composed for and performed by Quartet New Generation - recorder collective 
Susanne Fröhlich, Andrea Guttmann, Heide Schwarz und Petra Wurz (recorders)

Airlines for recorders/four perfromers

Composer-in-residence @ the Canadian Opera Company (2022-)
Composer-in-residence @ Glyndebourne (2019-22)

Photo: Daniel Alexander Denino

Flay (for soprano, piano, and percussion)

Cecilia Livingston

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