Name: Sweat: "My Heart Starves" by Juliet Palmer
Duration: 1 min 54 s
Description: Studio version of My Heart Starves, from Sweat, Urbanvessel's new opera with music by Juliet Palmer and libretto by Anna Chatterton. Singers: Subhiksha Rangarajan, Felicity Williams and Bó Bardós.

influenced by Morton Feldman, this composition for solo bass clarinet and digital accompaniment incorporates field recordings of birds, a forest walk as well as digital recording of bass clarinet, flute and piano.

Bird Song

Studio version of My Heart Starves, from Sweat, Urbanvessel's new opera with music by Juliet Palmer and libretto by Anna Chatterton. Singers: Subhiksha Rangarajan, Felicity Williams and Bó Bardós.

Sweat: "My Heart Starves"

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New Zealand-Canadian composer Juliet Palmer is known as a “post-modernist with a conscience” (The Listener) whose work “crosses so many genres as to be in a category of its own” (Toronto Star). Juliet is the artistic director of Urbanvessel, a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration. Recent works: Stitch (Dora nominations Outstanding New Opera and Outstanding Production), Slip (Best Experimental Short, Toronto International Short Film Festival), and Voice-Box (Harbourfront World Stage premiere and Fresh Ground commission). Voice-Box was acclaimed as “a performance piece that smashes the boundaries between disciplines and leaves them sprawled out on the mat, down for the count” (Musicworks Magazine). Upcoming: Sweat, a cappella opera, with writer Anna Chatterton and director Tim Albery (Soundstreams); and the Toronto premiere of the chamber opera Shelter with writer Julie Salverson and director Keith Turnbull (Tapestry Opera) in June 2014.

Based in Toronto since 1998, Juliet's work has been featured around the world with performances at: New York’s Lincoln Center, London's Southbank Centre, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bath International Festival, Voix Nouvelles France, Italy’s Angelica Festival, Evenings of New Music Bratislava, Musica Ficta Festival Lithuania, NYYD Festival Estonia, The Istanbul Festival, Soundculture Japan, the Adelaide Festival, the New Zealand International Arts Festival and Canada's Sound Symposium. Juliet was the 2011/12 Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards composer-in-residence at the New Zealand School of Music and the 2012 composer-in-residence of Orchestra Wellington. Juliet holds a PhD in composition from Princeton University and an M.Mus in performance, composition and time-based art from Auckland University.

Sweat: "My Heart Starves"

Juliet Palmer

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