Waste variations (variations on a theme from 2008), performed by ABSTRAI ensemble in the dress rehearsal for the premiere in Rio de Janeiro, May 15, 2018.

Performers: Andrea Ernest Dias, flute, piccolo, alto flute; Mariana Salles, violin; Pedro Bittencourt, tenor sax; Fabio Adour, electric guitar.

Waste variations, for fl, vn, sax, e-gtr (2018) [ABSTRAI ensemble - dress rehearsal]

Music by Liliya Ugay, text by Sokunthary Svay

Performed by Norfolk Festival Chamber Choir and ensemble; conductor - Simon Carrington, soloist - Bradley Sharpe (countertenor) and Ilya Poletaev (harpsichord), Norfolk Summer Festival 2018, Norfolk, CT

Point of Entry
(written by Sokunthary Svay specially for this piece )

You are awake again

pushing out my insides.

Is it your foot, your hand? 


Now you cry

outside my body 

inside this bedroom

angry and helpless cries    

from your exit. 


I can’t dream

when your cries cut 

through the air. 


Drink this food

my body makes for you

at times in pain, 

yet again and again 

in my love for you.

My desire

keeps you alive. 


Oh, how you have entered my life

dear child. 




What next? 


What now? 


I’m hungry. 


Hold me.


I feel you. 


Don’t leave me. 


Help me. 


Mama. 


I’m waiting for you. 


I’m here.

Ugay - Point Of Entry

Piano Fantasy No. 1

Liliya Ugay (1990)

Sweet Suite for flauto d'amore and piano

I. Perpetual Joy
II. Soliloquy

Premiere: May 26, 2019, Greenwich House, New York City

Ginevra Petrucci, flauto d'amore
Jessica Xylina Osborne, piano

Liliya Ugay / Sweet Suite

Gleb Kanasevich (1989)

don't wake them up for flauto d'amore and electronics

Premiere: May 26, 2019, Greenwich House, New York City

Ginevra Petrucci, flauto d'amore
Gleb Kanasevich, electronics

Gleb Kanasevich / don't wake them up

Tomeka Reid - cello
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Jason Roebke - bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums

Old New

Tomeka Reid Quartet "Old New" from "Old New" (Cuneiform Records)

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

James Young

Brittle King

for solo flauto d'amore

Ginevra Petrucci, flauto d'amore

Premiered at Greenwich House, Manhattan, NY on February 8, 2020

www.flautodamore.com

James Young / Brittle King

Clint Needham

Action:Inaction

for flauto d'amore, violin, viola, cello and bass

Ginevra Petrucci, flauto d'amore
Suliman Tekalli, violin
Meagan Turner, viola
Clare Monfredo, cello
Keenan Zach, bass

Premiered at Greenwich House, Manhattan, NY on February 8, 2020

www.flautodamore.com

Clint Needham / Action:Inaction

Premiered on March 4th, 2020 at Wortham Theater Center, Houston by Camille Jasensky; soprano, Masha Popova; flute, Pablo Munoz Salido; viola, Hope Cowan; harp, Chelsea de Souza; piano 


Program note:

	“The Moon Above Keeps Watch Tonight” was commissioned by the Dacamera Young Artist Program. Librettist Amanda Hollander and I have been collaborating to write an opera based on Gwangsoon Ryu, a war heroine of Korea, for several years. She made a trip out to Korea to do more research on the subject matter earlier last year and she wrote this portion of the text during that time. As we were working together very closely, she would show me the text as soon as she had something, and the moment I saw the lullaby text, I immediately fell in love with it—somehow,  the melody came right into my head at first sight. I have not had a proper chance to really realize the work until this commission came to me, and I am so grateful I could finally showcase this beautiful text.



Text:

Written by Amanda Hollander

The moon above keeps watch tonight.
Sleep safely in her patient light.
Dark stars gaze down to watch the snow
Your room warm in the candle’s glow
 
Don’t fear the sun
When dawn is far
Don’t hide your face
From cloud and star
 
Dream of pinecones
Dream of rain
Dream of wind-tossed
Grass and leaves

The mountain bends her snowy head
To guard you as you sleep in bed
The moss and rose await their birth
While hush of winter stills the earth

Dream of springtime
Dream of trees
Dream of blossoms
Shaken free
 
The moon keeps watch for you tonight.
She whispers stories with her light.
The sun will fall and dreams will fly.
The moon will open up the sky.

The moon above keeps watch tonight (2020)

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