What a strange and marvelous piece! A stunning performance from both Liz and Stacey here - I would imagine it's really difficult to sustain the requisite intensity and focus through the duration. I just love how it's disjointed yet always maintains a long line.  Bravo!

Jacquelyn Deshchidn, soprano

Peabody Institute 2021

She Chose Ghosts - Amanda Schoofs

Written for, and premiered by @annaelder at @SICPP (Summer Institute for Contemporary Music Practice) 2021

On three poems by E. E. Cummings

- I -
ringed
with monstrous
a doomed world's huge how
thunders are
(s lowl y
but certainly)crum
bl i ng
each more silent than each
remind
ers of this or of that
once(who knows)maybe
fearless him or beautiful
possibly her
and even lov ing
est youme


- II -
Cri
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et
in
-visible every whereish;faint.ly shrill most
(keen)
bell Of,shy a
spirit :twisting cry!ex
transparent
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or
arywish;quick- liest universal whis
per(Wis
p
)hearable
Like un
thing
oar in a such tre men
dous Sea
who
our
s e l v e s be ing,Call "
t
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"SometimeS


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Three pieces for solo soprano

"birds, the binding of" was written for Quince Ensemble as part of their 2021-22 residency at the University of Chicago. It sets a text by poet Ira Goga entitled "birds, the binding of."

Performed by Quince Ensemble
Engineered by Chris Willis

birds, the binding of (2022) for high vocal quartet

Tristram Williams, trumpet & Peter Neville, percussion
ELISION concert, 24 september 2014, Clothworker's Hall, University of Leeds

Ehwaz (Journeying), 2010 for trumpet & percussion

This is the premiere of my setting of Rilke's "An die Musik" for mezzo Julia Bentley in Chicago. Premiered at Roosevelt University by Julia and Kuang-Hao Huang, pianist.

An Die Musik- David Dies

Stacey Barelos, piano
Liz Pearse, voice
Helmut Lachenmann - "Got Lost" (2007/2008)

“Three only seemingly incompatible texts, stripped of their pathos-laden, poetic and profane diction, are sent from the same sound source – a soprano voice singing ‘in whatever way’ – into a intervallically ever-changing field of sound, reverberation and movement. Calling out, playfully, ‘warbling’ and lamenting arioso: they interrupt and pervade one another, thus marking out a space that ultimately remains foreign to them, and in which – as in all my compositions – music reflects upon itself with ‘expression’-less joviality, thus showing its awareness of the transcendent, god-less message of ‘ridicolas’ that unifies these three texts.” 
(Helmut Lachenmann, 2010)


Performed live at Kaneko on July 8, 2016 as part of Omaha Under the Radar.

Photo of performance by Aleks Karjaka of Karjaka Studios.

Got Lost - Helmut Lachenmann

A live recording of Bond Music performed by Roomful of Teeth and the Boston Children's Chorus a the Eastern ACDA Plenary Concert February, 2016. Sander's Theatre, Harvard University.

Trevor L. Weston's Album

bond music

the same ensemble:
Sasha Elina, voice
Kirill Shirokov, piano

anikushin’s sculpture studio, Spina!Fest, Saint Petersburg (RU)
June 23, 2017

Dante Boon — the heart’s size (2011)

Foley Room Recorded Live In Brussels

Minnesota-based soprano Liz Pearse has an affinity for music of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as a long-standing love of the music of earlier periods, from medieval to Mozart. Check out her website for more information and more recent recordings!

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