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)

Pro Coro Canada, cond. Michael Zaugg
Caleb Nelson, soloist
score available through the Pro Coro Canada Choral Series at www.leadingnote.com

This is a lullaby for anyone who cannot sleep. I’ve been interested in sleep and dreams, insomnia and nightmares, for a long time. My text is deliberately ambiguous – is this a parent singing to a child? a lover soothing a lover? It doesn’t matter, really: the point is the comforting. The middle section of the piece is stranger, more alien, subject to the odd logic of half-sleep and dreams. I’ve always loved the idea that at night you may sleep next to someone (you may even be holding hands or entwined) yet your minds take off in completely different directions. You’re together and yet – not. 

The accompaniment in the choir draws on my secret love of doo-wop, and a cappella groups like Rajaton.

when I was a child
 I was afraid of the dark,
 but now, Love, I see
that night is a time for peace.

  here, side by side, 
we sleep,  
each with an arm around
 each 
other  

drifting (drifting, drifting) far 
but never
 untethered,
 always  
together.  

when I was a child 
I was afraid of the dark,
 but now, Love, I see
 that night is a time for peace.

Kiss Goodnight, for a cappella men's choir

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

Kiss Goodnight, for a cappella men's choir

Cecilia Livingston

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