Performance by Malla Vivolin at Galleria Himmelblau with Tampere Flute Fest on April 15, 2023.  Commissioned by Malla Vivolin with funding from the Madetoja Säätiö.

Fibres of Floating Fog for solo C flute
Incantation for solo piccolo
Embers for solo alto flute
The Loon's Wail for solo bass flute

Four Dispositions for Solo Flute

La Rivière et la Forêt

Piece-A-Day at Tanglewood

The Loon's Wail

Embers

Incantation

Fibres of Floating Fog

This piece was initially inspired by blue glacier ice.  It involves contrapuntal ideas, transformations of melodic gestures and textural painting.  The recording is by Sound Icon- in this case the instrumentation is flute, oboe, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, percussion, piano, violins 1 and 2, viola, cello and contrabass.  

Blue Ice

Reading by Sound Icon.  This piece explores different kinds of timbres and gestures, along with quirky melodic lines, in various kinds of textures.  

Chroma - Fantasy

My orchestration of Ravel's Forlane from Tombeau de Couperin, read by the BU symphony orchestra.  

Forlane

From my senior composition recital.  Performed by Karen Luttik (B flat clarinet).  

Canyons

From my senior recital: Aija Reke (violin)

Musings (2016 performance)

Mixed sextet, written for the Composers Studio 2017 at RCM
Performed by:
Alex Roberts, Clarinet in B flat
Juan Antonio Garcia Illanas, Tenor Saxophone
Rory Cartmell, Trombone
Marie Schreer, Violin
Jenny Ames, Viola
Colin Alexander, Cello

Night Train To I Don't Know

Performed by Ulysses Ensemble, conducted by Jonathan Berman, at Snape Maltings for the Britten-Pears Composition and Performance course 2017.

Mirror Rim

Performed by the RCM wind ensemble, led by Simon Channing, on 15.2.2018

Kuje

Performed by Jaymee Coonjobeeharry (flute), Jonathan Radford (alto saxophone), and Eleanor Kornas (piano)

Mirage

composed in 2011, performed by me in 2012

Farewell

A short chamber opera about time-travelling scientists.  Recorded live at the RCM's Britten Theatre on 13 May 2018.
Music: Laura Poe
Words: Raphael Ruiz
Director: Bill Bankes-Jones
Conductor: Natalie Murray Beale
Designer: Sarah Booth

Horatia: Rosalind Dobson
Anjelica: Laura Hocking
Conrad: Dominic Bevan
Priest: Peter Edge
Chorus: Alice Ruxandra Bell, Samuel James Dewese, Milly Forrest, Peter Edge, Peter Martin, Poppy Shotts, Rosanna Cooper, Samuel Jenkins & Edward Jowle
To see the staged performance, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1PsOaS3KBo

The Fermi Paradox

I wrote this piece while studying at the RCM, and it was premiered there on November 1, 2018.  This recording is from Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, on August 18, 2019.

Flute: Johanna Gruskin
Clarinet: Matthew Griffiths
Bassoon 1: Rachael Lee
Bassoon 2: Jordan Brokken
Trumpet 1: Tetsuya Lawson
Trumpet 2: Omri Barak
Trombone: Michael Cox
Bass Trombone: Cameron Owen

2019-08-18 1000AM CD1

Contradanse

Piece no. 2 from the Piece-a-day project at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Violin: Xiaofan Liu
Cello: Sonia Mantell

2019-08-17 0230PM CD1

Figment II: Scherzo

Piece no. 3 from the Piece-a-day project at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Flute: Johanna Gruskin
Clarinet: Matthew Griffiths

Figment III: Waltz

Piece no. 1 from the Piece-a-day project at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Violin: Chi Li
Viola: Samuel Pedersen

Figment I: Ghostly Chorales (extract)

A more experimentative track of mine, using an idea of descending thirds and minor seconds.  Transformations was composed by me in a 2-week period and played by the Jack quartet (http://www.jackquartet.com).  Enjoy!  

Transformations for String Quartet (played by the Jack Quartet)

Here's an early electronic piece of mine (back from 2014)– was finally able to bounce the files since I recently got ProTools!  This piece was pretty important in helping me figure out how a lot of electronic music processes work.

Metamorphosis

This piece is the result of working with zFestival over this summer!  It was live-streamed as part of zFestival's final gala over August 1 and 2.  

The electronics consist largely of dog sounds (mostly barking, whining, and growling) generously provided by my dog Esteri.  I've cross-synthesized these sounds with various instrumental passages within the piece to effectively bridge the gap between these two sound worlds.  Another aspect I explore is a continuity of how recognizable the various dog and instrumental noises are as such.  

Sarah Richards, voice
Kaitlin Pet, oboe
Shoshana Klein, English horn
Stephen Ai, toy piano

The Puppy

The title comes from the smoothness and quick evolution of most of the sounds heard.  I've used a granular synthesis plugin to create most of these sounds, which I've then assembled to try and create a sense of flow and evolution within the material.  Written for ZFestival Unacademy.

A Silver Flash

Finnish-American composer, PhD student at King’s College London. RCM and BU CFA graduate.  
2021 Ivors Composer Award nominee, Rostrum 2021 participant, 2020 Sinfonia Lahti Nursery Garden Initiative, LSO Panufnik Scheme participant 2018-2019, 2019 Tanglewood Music Center Composition Fellow.  Managed by Blom Music Management.  Published by Fennica Gehrman.

Lara Poe

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