Conductor: Peter Kadeli

Flute: Lilah Senibaldi, Pedro Mujica
Oboe: Olivia Leake, Rachel Burkhalter
Clarinet: Li-Jie Yu, Haley Harrison
Bassoon: Chanelle Junio, Jacob Lomboy
Horn: Terrence Perrier, Jake Buckner, Evelyn Hupka, Anna Dorey
Trumpet: Evan Eldridge, Alex Keiser, Caleb Abshire
Trombone: Scott Rasher, Matt Fowler
Bass Trombone: Justin Carrothers
Tuba: Gage Sippel
Timpani: Kaleb Hascall
Percussion: Drew Neal, Thomas Frost, Jaxson Rives
Harp: Evelyn Theinert
Violin I: Delia Li, Daniel DiMarino, Jisu Youn, Constance Wu, Achille Vocat, Marienn Sanchez, Grace McKenzie, Angela Kapikian
Violin II: Ava Leschyshyn, Anna Cain, Dmitri Volkov, Elizabeth Scarlett, Cameron Zorlu, Naomi Kertonugroho
Viola: Hyrum Kohler, Jacob Davis, Kai Slesarev-Ngami, Alanna Mossell, Rowan Lemaster, Addison Hightower
Cello: Adrian Golay, Joy Chih-Yi Chu, Connor Swain, Hannah Greenstein, Somyong Shin
Double Bass: Javier Hernandez, Jonathon Piccolo, Mingzi Han

Audio Engineer: Garrett Treanor

Recorded on November 12, 2022 at Auer Hall
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, IN

Feeling New Strength (2021) for orchestra

NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble; Miggi Angangco, conductor; Justin Carrothers, bass trombone; Aiden Keiser, tuba; Conner Viets, timpano; Drew Neal, percussion

Sahar Khodayari, known to many as Blue Girl (after the color of her favorite soccer team), disguised herself as a man in a failed attempt to enter Iran’s Azadi (Freedom) Stadium and cheer on her favorite players. In Iran, women are prohibited from attending soccer games; she was detained after authorities noticed her disguise. On September 2, 2019, after she found out that she could spend six months in prison for her alleged crime, Sahar Khodayari set herself on fire outside a Tehran courthouse. She would rather die than submit to a regime that denies women freedom and equality.

These lines of Hâfez, Iran’s most revered poet, sound to me like something Blue Girl may have been thinking before she committed her fatal act:

I have in mind, if possible,
To do something that can end sorrow.
بر سر آنم که گر ز دست برآید
دست به کاری زنم که غصه سرآید

Hâfez, Ghazal 228

Blue (2019, rev. 2022) for SATB chorus, bass trombone, tuba, timpano, & percussion

Steve Heitzeg - Wounded Fields

The premiere performance of Dayton Hare's "Estuary" for orchestra. Performed Dec. 7, 2023, by the Yale Philharmonia, Stefano Boccacci conducting, Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT.

Program Note: The Colorado River is the lifeblood of the American Southwest. Starting from its source in the Rockies, throughout an otherwise arid region the river irrigates vast hectares of agricultural land and provides millions of people with drinking water. As one of those millions during my childhood, thoughts of where the water came from or where it went rarely crossed my mind. But today, as climate change places an ever greater strain on the river system, I often think about its imperiled future. A combination of drought, poor planning, and bad policy nearly emptied the river's reservoirs last year, but for decades before it had been drying up downstream, dammed and diverted for human consumption. At the Colorado's mouth, where in centuries past the river formed an estuary with the Gulf of California, the desert has overtaken the riverbed and water rarely reaches the ocean. Now, like so much of the natural world in the anthropocene, the estuary exists only in the traces left behind in the memory of the earth. My piece follows the river's course, from the stillness of snow-capped peaks to the stillness of the dry desert riverbed, in my own small contribution to this memory.

Estuary

Hard to Argue (2014), concertino for horn choir
Performers: Adam Unsworth with QSO Horns. 

Hard to Argue (2014), concertino for five horns

Viano Quartet, Kian Ravaei, Little Things, 07/25/2023, 30.5 mins.

KIAN RAVAEI The Little Things, I. I'll Tell You How The Sun Rose

for orchestra, chorus and electronics.

performed by bbc symphony orchestra & chorus, bbc singers and elim chan. 

19 july 2024, royal albert hall (for the first night of the bbc proms).

video: https://youtu.be/hELmcWBs9R0?si=n3lHGCFsb0TJKRY9

Hallelujah Sim.

Preciso.
Delicado y lleno de fuerza. 
Cuidadoso y deternimado. 
Sus martillos aciertan.

El corazón repica y su latido toma la forma correcta, 

El encanto está hecho.

La música se apodera.

*

"Orfebrería del latido" imagina al músico como orfebre.
Su acción sobre el instrumento es el martillar que se propaga en el viento
hasta impactar los corazones y redefinir el ritmo de su latido.
En las manos del músico está el poder de reanimar si en la música está el hechizo correcto.

Orfebrería del latido

yNOTlily b2b LIVE @ GIRL MATH april 26 2025

Inspired by Gustav Holst's The Planets (1918) for Orchestra. This piece explores Titan, a moon of Saturn and one of my favorite moons. The atmosphere on Titan is thicker than any moon -- thicker than our Earth's atmosphere by 50%. On the edges of the piece, you'll hear some really dense chords--that's the thick atmosphere. Also, because of this fact, if you strapped wings to your arms and flapped around in the soupy air on Titan, you could fly. Listen for the fluttering flutes above in the piece for this musical depiction.

And while you're flying, you might notice lakes below. Titan is also a special body in the solar system because it's the only other one besides Earth to have liquid on its surface. The liquid isn't water, it's actually a mix of methane and ethane. In the music, you'll hear a slow, melancholic melody played by the clarinets and then the horns. This is a musical illustration of a space-boat drifting across the lakes of Titan.

You'll also hear the thick atmosphere come back in the middle of the piece decorated by a new, adventurous melody in the low brass and later trumpets. This is supposed to represent space explorers plunging into the unknown. I hope you enjoy the piece!

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Special acknowledgement to David Herring for writing about another awesome world in our solar system, Eris, and inspiring me to write this piece.

Another special thank you to Matthew Sedatole for conducting and UT faculty Yevgeniy Sharlat and Donald Grantham for your extremely valuable composition teachings in this project.

And thank you to all the performers in the UT Wind Ensemble (dir. Jerry Junkin) for sharing your talent on this recording!

Titan, the Bold  - UT Wind Ensemble

Premiered and commissioned by the Dallas Chamber Symphony, Maestro Richard McKay conducting on March 23rd, 2019 at Moody Performance Hall. Premiered with chamber orchestra and displayed text.

A full perusal score is available in The Library at kimberlyosberg.com

Blue (2019, rev. 2022) for SATB chorus, bass trombone, tuba, timpano, & percussion

Kian Ravaei

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