Taking Chances

Live performance from the July 6 Performer's Showcase II Concert from the 2016 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. Many thanks to the fabulous Kathie Hsieh, Todd Bills, and Crystal Wing In Chu for being wonderful collaborators and performers!

Crumb: An Idyll for the Misbegotten

Estelí Gomez, soprano
Linda Jenkins and Rebecca Larkin, flutes
Chelsea Oden, clarinet
Samuel Kalcheim, viola
Li Tao, conductor

Aasen-Hull Hall, Eugene, OR
7 May 2017

Enfold, for soprano, 2 flutes, clarinet, and viola (2017) [text by Kate Chopin]

Premiere performance on July 5, 2018 in Aasen-Hull Hall at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.  Performed by Rachel Whelan, flute; Benjamin Montgomery, alto saxophone; Ramsey Sadaka, cello; Robin McLaughlin, piano; Luke Smith, conductor.

Opuntia, Op. 56 (Live at OBFCS 2018 - July 5, 2018)

Written for and performed by Wing In Crystal Chu

My #Flickering Nightlight

My Quiet One is a short drama for soprano, tenor, clarinet, and string quartet that explores the healing virtue of sorrow. Through the voice of the tenor, it invites the listener to separate an experience of grief from any shame, guilt, or regret that may accompany it, and to create intimacy by sharing that experience of grief with others. I hope that any listener caught in the midst of sorrow will receive the revelation of worth expressed by the soprano, and say with her, “My eyes overflow with jewels. I will lavish them on the shoulder of someone I love.

Text (by the composer):
T: 	Still so quiet…
	Why not weep?
	When we were children,
	A bruise was reason enough
	To cry and cry, 
And ask to be held.

S:	How quickly I learned to lament my wounds
	With secret tears, and quiet cries.
	Now, sorrow crushes my heart,
	And I cannot weep.

T:	My quiet one,
	Are you ashamed?
	Shame is not as fixed as you believe.
	When sorrows flow,
	They sweep away every trace of shame.
	
	My quiet one,
	Let sorrows flow.
	Let sorrows sweep away every trace of shame.

S:	My eyes overflow with jewels;
	I will lavish them on the shoulder of someone I love.

T, S:	My loving one,
	My beautiful one,
	Will you weep with me?

Performed by:
Caroline Jamsa (soprano)
Jens Ibsen (tenor)
Colleen White (clarinet)
Audrey Lund (violin 1)
Michael Fleming (violin 2)
Celka Ojakangas (viola)
Ramsey Sadaka (violoncello)

My Quiet One

Adam Fishburn, Viola

Performed and recorded live on Saturday, May 4th 2019 in the Recital hall of the James & Nancy Gaertner Performing Arts Center at Sam Houston State University.

I. Breit. Viertel
II. Sehr frisch und straff. (Viertel)
III. Sehr langsam
IV. Rasendes Zeitmaß. Wild. Tonschönheit ist Nebensache
V. Langsam, mit viel Ausdruck

Senior Recital

Hindemith - Viola Sonata, Op. 25 No. 1

Raven Stokes, flute
Darlene Mueller, clarinet
Jessica Rose Dodge, soprano saxophone
Jacob Raffee, trombone
Clare Brennan, tuba
Sophia Lo, percussion
Crystal Chu-Sharp, percussion
Daniel DeTogni, Casiotone (Casio CT-403)
Gabrielle Dietrich, violin 1
Joelle Arcuino, violin 2
Samuel Lord Kalcheim, viola
Alexandre Pabst, bass
Luke Smith, conductor

Aasen-Hull Hall, University of Oregon
November 17, 2019

Bellvines Suite No 1

Luke Smith

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