Live concert recording by DaCapo Chamber Choir http://dacapochamberchoir.ca/
Conductor: Leonard Enns
Purchase score: http://silentdawn.ca/composition/black-riders/

Black riders came from the sea. 
There was clang and clang of spear and shield, 
And clash and clash of hoof and heel, 
Wild shouts and the wave of hair 
In the rush upon the wind: 
Thus the ride of sin.

Stephen Crane

Black Riders

Composer: Iman Habibi
Poetry: Houshang Vessal, Iman Habibi
Performed by: Simone Osborne, Andrea Grant

Commissioned in 2009 by soprano Simone Osborne for her New York debut recital with the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Silent Awakening includes four songs for soprano and piano:

1. Lily and Monarch
2. The Bloom of Youth
3. Still
4. The Awakening

This is a live recording of Lily and Monarch done by CBC Radio 2 from a performance in Ottawa, at the BC Scene Festival.

Lily and Monarch from Silent Awakening

Originally written for The Emily Carr String Quartet as part of my composer residency at Salt Spring Island’s ArtSpring, Beloved of the Sky pays tribute to one of Canada’s most iconic painters, Emily Carr. Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky is the title of an enchanting painting by Carr that I first encountered at the Vancouver Art Gallery many years before I started writing this piece. It shows an unusually tall isolated tree, reaching up to a bright spot in the center of the sky.

Beloved of the Sky

Habibi - Beloved of the Sky - String Quartet - Movements I. and II.

Iranian-Canadian Composer and Pianist - Pianist and Co-Founder of Piano Pinnacle - Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Michigan

Iman Habibi

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