'Fruit Songs' was originally written for the soprano Sarah Dacey and acoustic guitar. It has undergone other arrangements for chamber group (soprano, clarinet, violin, 'cello, piano and percussion) and for soprano and piano.

This version is sung by Jenny Duck-Chong with Janet Agostino on guitar, as part of the group Halcyon, a brilliant Australian ensemble who champion new music and have also given the Australian premieres of my works 'luna-cy' and 'ojo'. www.halcyon.org.au

They set five different poems about fruit! 
I - Mango 
II - Plum 
III - Blackberry 
IV - Cherry 
V - Apple

'Kerry Andrew’s ‘fruit songs’…were playful, punning and admirably concise—not unlike a musical equivalent of the visual puns of the poetry of e.e. cummings.' Sydney Morning Herald, 2003

'Kerry Andrew’s ‘fruit songs’ …treat the voice as a circus acrobat treats a trapeze.' North Shore Times, Sydney, 2006

apple from fruit songs

Kerry Andrew is a composer, performer and author based in London. 
She specialises in vocal music and opera, choral music, folk, jazz, and community music. Choral and experimental work has been heard on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, 6Music and Classic FM and on national news channels. She won a British Composer Award in 2010 and two more for her chamber operas 'Woodwose' and 'Dart's Love' in 2014. She won her 4th for 'who we are' for the National Youth Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall. She was 2010-12's Handel House Composer in Residence. In 2017, she made her Proms debut with BBC Ten Pieces.

Her debut novel, Swansong, is out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/swansong/kerry-andrew/9781911214229 and her second novel, SKIN, is published in February 2021.

Kerry performs as alt-folk artist You Are Wolf http://soundcloud.com/you-are-wolf; music can be heard and ordered here: https://youarewolf.bandcamp.com/

She performs with the award-winning vocal trio https://soundcloud.com/juicevocalensembleuk

She also performs with the jazz/classical/rock collective https://soundcloud.com/dollyman.

‘Stunning‘ Classic FM

‘Brilliant, Berio-like vocal effects…‘ The Times

www.kerryandrew.net

Halcyon is an Australian new music ensemble specialising in contemporary works for voice and instruments, directed by singer Jenny Duck-Chong

apple from fruit songs

Kerry Andrew Composer