Recorded live at Center for New Music on April 19, 2018

Jamie Lee, soprano
Monica Chew, pianist and composer

The Crazy Woman (text by Gwendolyn Brooks)
The Beauty in the Forest (text by Gwendolyn Brooks)
Noblesse Oblige (text by Celeste Turner Wright)
there is a girl inside (text by Lucille Clifton)

Monica Chew, An ordinary woman

Monica Chew, Bachiana for String Trio

For 2 violas, bassoon, and piano.

MIDI generated by Noteflight.

Monica Chew, Birdy Goes A - Ridin'

Recorded live 31 August 2018 in the Oakland on the worst piano in the Bay Area

Monica Chew, piano

J. S. Bach, Goldberg Variations

Recorded live 31 August 2018 in the Oakland

Monica Chew, piano

Aaron Andrew Hunt, Prelude and Fugue in E minor, WTCIII

Delayed Send

Audrey Q. Snyder (http://audreyqsnyder.com/), cello
Monica Chew, composer

I wrote Zoom Gloom as part of #GLFCAMGigThruCovid, an artist relief fund started by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music to provide support for performers who lost work due to the pandemic. Just as I am learning to appreciate the tiny joys in life, I am learning to appreciate the minor annoyances as well. Since March I’ve spent about countless hours in Zoom calls and concerts, and doing tech support for the same. I created the audio track from found and solicited voice samples to capture the sense of confusion and comedy that often accompanies these calls, and also the sense of gratitude that I feel for a communication medium that, despite its imperfections, lets us connect in the only safe way we can. In keeping with the theme of communicating from afar, I also wrote the cello part to allow multiple players to play from the same score, at slightly different times.


You can see all of the works commissioned by #GLFCAMGigThruCovid here: https://www.glfcam.com/covid-series-calendar

Monica Chew, Zoom Gloom

Found percussion, mostly from my kitchen.

Chess Match

Current obsessions: Bach, Bartok, Janacek

Monica Chew

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