For 12 musicians & tape 
Conductor: Christopher Austin
Esbjerg Ensemble

Flow

Sailors' Hymn - Mare Liberum Wawa - is composed for Taipei Chamber Singers' 36 mix voices choir, a choir characterised with bright and clear middle and higher range, and highly resilient messa di voce singing ability. Together with objects, It gives enormous possibilities to create a delicate and rich soundscape - the sea, the waves, the life in and around the sea, and the relationship between the sea and the sailors. 
The text is taken from Mare Liberum (The Freedom of the Seas) written by the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius and was first published in 1609. The piece is a tone-painting in Latin, with highlighted Tao people’s children’s hymn in indigenous language to contrast the massive sea world and the local maritime culture on the tiny outlying Orchid Island of Taiwan. Objects is part of the performative elements of the piece. Objects creates sounds from the sea, waves, shores from afar, wind and many more.

Photo: 蔣皓任

Sailor’s Hymn - Mare Liberum Wawa

For Soprano, Alto saxophones & electronic
Hylaves is commissioned by Kasper Hemmer Pihl & Claus Olesen 

Hylaves (excerpts)

Lena Nietfeld - Jugalbandi (2012) (excerpt) for Balinese trompong, alto flute, and sinfonietta ensemble

Tim Feeney, trompong
Shaun Barlow, alto flute
Eastman Composers' Sinfonietta
Daniel Bassin, conductor 

score and program note: https://lenanietfeld.wordpress.com/works/jugalbandi/

Jugalbandi (excerpt)

Waarom niet performed by Nederlands Studenten Orkest / Ivan Meylemans in De Doelen - Rotterdam, 18-02-2013

Live concert, De Doelen, Rotterdam, 18feb2013

Waarom niet?

Waarom niet? (2013)

2017 New work for Accordion and String Quartet - live recording.
Andreas Borregaard & Sonar Quartett

photo by: Klang Festival

Dissolved Voices for Accordion and String Quartet

Chen Yu-Fang, violin
Premiered at TICF 2017.
Recorded at Ball State University on 11-20-2017.

In Murmuring Flies in a Translucent Box (2017), the composer explores dialogues between light and darkness hidden in a variety of textures. Rapid interchanges of harmonic and ordinary pitches as well as bowing positions creates shimmering murmurs that resemble the title figuratively.

Murmuring Flies In A Translucent Box for solo Violin

The Ritournelle was originally a French dance in quick triple meter, but the word was also used describing a musical form, where the fast dance-music was superseded with contrasting music. This easily recognisable form later got known under the name rondo, which we find used by for instance Mozart, in the last movement of his piano sonata in A, the ”rondo alla turca”, and Brahms, ”rondo alla zingarese” in the piano quartet in g-minor. But while Brahms and Mozart points towards the music of Turks and gypsies, the Albatro Vermicolato is the Italian name for the Waved Albatross, also known as the Galapagos Albatross. This bird has a highly developed mating dance, where perplexing gestures and sounds are repeated in ways which for us humans resembles a careful choreographed ritual. This ritual bird-dance, is surrounded by fast music in triple meter – a ritournelle

Ritournelle, Rondo alla L'albatro vermicolato

Double concerto for Sheng, Accordion and Sinfonietta (2012-13) 


Conductor: Jean Thorel
Sheng: Dong Ying (China)
Accordion: Frode Andersen (Denmark/ Norway)
Århus Sinfonietta 

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Double concerto for Sheng, Accordion and Sinfonietta (2012-13) 

Conductor: Jean Thorel
Sheng: Dong Ying (China)
Accordion: Frode Andersen (Denmark/ Norway)
Århus Sinfonietta 

Shadows mvt.2

Double concerto for Sheng, Accrodion and Sinfonietta (2012 -13) 

Conductor: Jean Thorel 
Sheng: Dong Ying (China)
Accordion: Frode Andersen (Denmark/ Norway) 
Århus Sinfonietta 


Shadows mvt. 3 & 4

Between east and west
Between and beyond the acoustic and the electronic sound
Sensual communicative music in colorful and evocative timbre

Classical educated composer

Sailor’s Hymn - Mare Liberum Wawa

Li-Ying Wu

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