Name: On Shapes and Figures, for string quartet and bass clarinet by JessicaMays
Duration: 19 min 52 s
Description: Premiered by the Loon Lake Ensemble, Summer 2016

1st vln walks offstage, away from sight, continuing to play.

Violin 2 is the last to exit offstage. The piece ends with the cellist playing alone onstage.

Premiered by the Loon Lake Ensemble, Summer 2016

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On Shapes and Figures, for string quartet and bass clarinet

Episode 76 of ADJ•ective New Music's podcast, Lexical Tones. Robert McClure interviews composer, pianist, and singer-songwriter Jessica Mays.
https://jessmaysmusic.com/

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76 - Jessica Mays

https://jessmaysmusic.com/

Jessica Mays is a composer, pianist and songwriter based in New York City and her hometown of Denver, Colorado. Her music pulls inspiration from the worlds of jazz, pop, contemporary classical and avant-garde, evoking a blended sound that is both visceral and distantly familiar. 

Mays’s music has been performed both locally and abroad, by a wide variety of soloists, ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Playground Ensemble, Ensemble Paramirabo, Ensemble Lunatik, Blackbox Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, The Labo de musique contemporaine de Montréal and many others. She has been featured by a variety of festivals as composer and performer including the Chelsea Music Festival, Loon Lake Live, and the Cluster Music Festival. She has also written arrangements for both large and small forces on a variety of projects with the Colorado Symphony. Her music has received praise from such major publications as the Boston Globe and the Boston Musical Intelligencer.

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