An edit of a piece I wrote for and with students @TheGSAL - a great collab during the craziness of last year. 
Students were asked to answer the question 'what's on your mind?'  This is what they said.  Full piece and process here:
https://youtu.be/MKXKwNnZYk8

'Let's Talk'

This is part of an 8 part vocal piece written for a collaboration with Crossover Intergenerational Dance Company for a site specific event at Bridge of Sighs in Oxford, then performed at Old Fire Station Theatre and Oxford Caste with Oxford Youth Choirs and Japanese Contemporary Dance Network

Commission: Suspension Pt 1, Sospiri Choir

Part of a piece written for and performed by the Marian Consort, joined by some young singers from Oxford Youth Choirs. The pieces uses text from the Latin Requiem Mass and a quotation from 'Broken Vessels' by American author Andre Dubus.

Commission: In Paradisum, Marian Consort, Pt 2 (edit)

An extract from a piece commissioned by Voice - an a cappella vocal trio.  The text is from Hildegard's play 'Ordo Virtutem'.
This is part of the trio's latest release 'Patterns of Love' 
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/voice92 
http://voicetrio.co.uk

How Sweetly You Burn (Edit)sung by Voice

I just stumbled upon this - written for Crossover Intergenerational Dance Company back in the day - part of a 20 minute dance piece.   

Triptych

The second of 6 songs for 'The Rain is Coming' Song Cycle for baritone, Roderick Williams and pianist, Susie Allan.  Words: Rommi Smith, Music: Emily Levy.  Written in  response to Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin presenting a female perspective on the original cycle.
Performed at Stratford upon Avon Music Festival 2017

What Kind Of Moon Is This? - Roderick Williams (Baritone), Susie Allan (Piano), Words (Rommi Smith)

This was written for Project Instrumental and performed at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham as part of Frontiers Festival 2016.  It is based upon the incidental sounds of tapes and records; their speeding up, slowing down and glitches.
It's also inspired by the ruts, dead ends and circularity of late night thinking!

3. Stuck Record

From "Lost and Found", new solo album (emilylevy.co.uk)

Produced by Mark Creswell and Sam Hobbs

Solo: Passing Clouds

From 'Lost and Found'.  All the undiscovered and forgotten places.

4. Still Point

The sixth and final song in 'The Rain is Coming' a song cycle for Baritone and Piano + ebows, performed by Roderick Williams and Susie Allan, created by composer Emily Levy and writer Rommi Smith.   

The cycle is a response to Schubert and Müller's 'Die schöne Mullerin' written from a female perspective.  It expends and retells the story of the Maid of the Mill who in Schubert's original cycle speaks only 2 lines.  Beginning where the original left off, with the Maid discovering the Miller dead in the water, through the six songs she tells her own dreams and desires for escape and, whilst describing the impact upon her of the death of the Miller, she plans journeys of her own.

6. Rain Come Down

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working with @OYCchoirs who performed my piece 'Unending Sky' to text by John Masefield - all about the rush of awe inspiring insignificance looking up at the universe - lots of fun with these great young singers! Here are excerpts from the piece - which plays around with directional singing, vocal percussion, phasing and vibraphone/vocal textures.

Emily Levy

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