Pieces containing at least three performers.

Chamber Works

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for Brass Septet
Recording of the german premiere in June 2013

Zug by Enno Poppe

Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a

The Seasons Op. 37a: IX. September - The Hunt

Written in the fall of 2013, this piece was inspired by the Taylor Wessing Photographic prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.  It is being performed on December 13 at the National Portrait Gallery, by Marie Schreer (violin), Elliott Corner (viola), and Sam Woodford (bass clarinet).
The specific portrait in question can be found here: http://www.jaimetravezan.com/Fishermen
This piece was constructed in two interlocking layers- it alternates between a prolation canon and a freely constructed scenario.  

An Eclectic Scene with Flying Fish

Piano & Orchestra No. 4

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Bottin to the Classics - Bach Air BWV 1068

Isaac Albéniz: Suite Española No. 1, Op. 47: No. 5, Asturias “Leyenda” (Arr. for Piano and Orchestra)

Albéniz: Suite Española No. 1, Op. 47: No. 5, Asturias “Leyenda” (Arr. by Gulan)

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Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 and is also called the Haffner Symphony. It was commissioned by the Haffners, a prominent Salzburg family, for the occasion of Sigmund Haffner's ennoblement. 

The Haffner Symphony should not be confused with the eight-movement Haffner Serenade, another piece Mozart wrote on commission from the same family in 1776.

IV. Presto

The last movement, labeled "Presto", maintains just as much fire as the first movement. According to Steinberg, and Ledbetter, this "Presto" movement not only bears a similar atmosphere to the overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, but also provides a reminiscence of Osmin's comic aria "O wie will ich triumphieren" from Die Entführung aus dem Serail. 

This opera was first performed just two weeks before the composition of this finale. Hence, it may explain why there exist such similarities. When providing his father, Leopold, with performance instructions for the "Presto", his advice was that this movement should be played "as fast as possible".

Although the "Presto" begins at a quiet, brisk pace, the listener is immediately arrested by three beats of silence, followed by the full orchestra performing at a clear forte level in bar 9. Such musical surprises appear throughout this movement. 

Like the first movement, this movement is in the key of D major, and the form of the "Presto" movement is clearly in sonata-rondo form. Permeated with silences, rapid dynamic shifts, and a bright grace-note passage near the closing of the movement, one may expect the unexpected.

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Orchestral samples included in this recording from the Vienna Symphonic Library.

Mozart - Symphonies, Sonatas, Serenades, Concertos & Overtures

Symphony No.35 in D-Major, K. 385: ‘Haffner’ IV. Presto

Audius

Ruinations is a portrait of the horrific reality we as a human race have created through the pollution, mechanization & destruction of our planet.

This piece was written for Dr. Wayne Dorothy and the Hardin-Simmons University Concert Band.

Ruinations (2016) - for wind ensemble

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

Composed in 2011/2012 by me.  
Performed by Emily Potter, Joe Mathias, Emilie Campanelli and Steve Allen.

A Walk in the Woods

Jarrett Hoffman, Clarinet
Nicholas Hatt, Violin
Jordan Galvarino, Cello
Magnus Villanueva, Piano 

Transits” is inspired by experiences I've had traveling on planes, trains and buses while half-asleep. The wild sounds of these vehicles are created by independent elements, hard to distinguish from each other, overlapping in repeatedly different ways. Musicians are positioned on all sides of the audience, playing material that is partly un-synchronized.

Transits

unfinished, instrumental (for now) original tune.  Everything written and recorded by me in an outdated version of garage band and an m-audio interface, chambered telecaster made in my shop, bass is a schecter stiletto, drums are a midi loop.  copyright 2018

David Hanlon's Album

rebuild (instrumental)

Recorded with my smartphone, looped with rolandcube 40xl amp
Guitar_loop#4

Ziuuum

Prix de Composition 2012, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Dirigé par Tito Ceccherini et interpreté par l'OLC et Matteo Cesari au Karlax.

Kaala, pour grand ensemble et electronique - Karlax (2012)

Commissioned by Klangforum Wien, award for Impuls International Composition Competition 2011.
Premiered at impuls . International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music 2013, Graz / Austria, by Klangforum Wien and Enno Poppe, conductor.

Eon, for ensemble (2012)

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)

GOD 16
Bernhard Lang
Monadologie XII 
(Klangforum Wien/Johannes Kalitzke)
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GOD 16 - Bernhard Lang - Monadologie XII (Klangforum Wien/Kalitzke), excerpts

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (1651)
A man is a bubble, (said the Greek proverb), which Lucian represents with advantages and its proper circumstances, to this purpose; saying, that all the world is a storm, and men rise up in their several generations, like bubbles descending a Jove pluvio, from God and the dew of heaven, from a tear and drop of rain, from nature and Providence; and some of these instantly sink into the deluge of their first parent, and are hidden in a sheet of water, having had no other business in the world, but to be born, that they might be able to die: others float up and down two or three turns, and suddenly disappear and give their place to others: and they that live longest upon the face of the waters are in perpetual motion,restless and uneasy, and being crushed with a great drop of a cloud, sink into flatness and a froth; the change not being great, it being hardly possible it should be more a nothing that it was before.
-Jeremy Taylor

I reread Jeremy Taylor’s exquisite sentence, the opening of The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, throughout my compositional process but, in composing my work, I was not, beyond a general stormy affect in the middle section, musically illustrating Taylor’s imagery. Rather, Taylor’s rhetoric –veering between violent and delicate imagery, and structure, its pauses unable to halt a powerful trajectory, inspired me to compose this work as a type of memento mori. Giving abstract music expressive titles is rare for me, and in any case is a tricky process. But in the wake of recent losses, both personal and national, I was moved even moved by Taylor’s text –a potent emblem of the fragility and precariousness of life.

On a purely technical level, the work is a summation of my work for strings over the last decade, especially my three string quartets composed for the Arditti and JACK Quartets. More than any overdetermining system, my work is governed by the physicality of the instruments and is marked by the gradual introduction of different playing techniques: glassy harmonics, skittish string-crossings, snap pizzicato, or even brutal sawing, often resolving once more to an uneasy calm. I embrace aspects of high modernism - albeit critically, and attempt is create something viscerally expressive, dramatically structured, using pulsing rhythmic energy to veers between extremes of fragility and violence. 

While my work has used scrapping sounds for almost ten years, after watching a recent documentary on Gerhard Richter’s process, I was struck by the aural similarities created by his process which entails dragging a scrapper across the canvas over freshly-applied paint. Scrapping that yields texture and color is important in my work. The subtitle is a nod to Richter, a constant source of inspiration. 

That said, the initial juxtapositions that inspired this work are more personal. I was asked to compose a work to accompany Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings shortly after my grandfather’s passing. Its impossible for me think of either Strauss or my grandfather without thinking of Munich in the spring of 1945, the time when Strauss was finishing (and a bit too ambiguously dedicating) Metamorphosen.  Only a few miles a way, American soldiers liberated Dachau and my grandfather was among the soldiers that aided the victims and then escorted them south through Strauss’ Garmisch, to Salzburg and on to the Hungarian border. It is dedicated to him, and to my grandmother, who passed away shortly before I finished this work, in memoriam.

Review here: http://tinyurl.com/n5ua5g7 and (as performance of the year) here: http://tinyurl.com/l7ayod8

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (2012)

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.

Transformations for String Quartet (played by the Jack Quartet)

Lara Poe