From "Two Facets of the Universe." Part the second.

Performed by Pawel Markowicz and myself at the Klavier Aktuell concert at Konservatorium Wien, April 26, 2010.

Copyright © 2010 Clio Montrey.

Dark Matter | COMPOSITION

From the upcoming opera "Timelines."
Composer: Clio Montrey
Librettist: Brigitte Pekarek
Soprano: Anne Wieben
Harp: Miriam Adefris
Cello: Liina Leijala
Art and Set Design: Halina Montrey

Music Copyright © 2013 Clio Montrey. All rights reserved.
Text Copyright © 2013 Brigitte Pekarek. All rights reserved.

Amanda's Tragic Aria | COMPOSITION

3C - Aurora Electronics

3B - Aurora Electronics

3A - Aurora Electronics

1B - Aurora Electronics

1A - Aurora Electronics

A theme from the upcoming children's animated film "Spacehasen."
Available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/at/album/spacehasen-feat.-liina-leijala/id920286599?l=en

Composition and piano: Clio Montrey
Cello: Liina Leijala
Director & Producer: Reinhard Peschorn
spacehasen.com

Copyright © 2014 Clio Montrey


Trailer for Cello and Piano | FILM COMPOSITION

Premiere of "Monodrama of the Mechanical Doll," 7 February 2014.

Composition Copyright © 2012-2014 Clio Montrey.
Liina Leijala, Cello
Brigitte Pekarek, Actress

I. Meet the Mechanical Doll | COMPOSITION

Premiere of "Monodrama of the Mechanical Doll," 7 February 2014.

Composition Copyright © 2012-2014 Clio Montrey.
Liina Leijala, Cello
Brigitte Pekarek, Actress


II. El Flamenco Es Buenísimo Para El Espíritu | COMPOSITION



Premiere of "Monodrama of the Mechanical Doll," 7 February 2014.

Composition Copyright © 2012-2014 Clio Montrey.
Liina Leijala, Cello
Brigitte Pekarek, Actress


III. March of the Mechanical Doll | COMPOSITION

IV. Ambient | COMPOSITION

VI. The Emotional Directive | COMPOSITION

VII. Subsumed | COMPOSITION

Composition by Clio Montrey
A toy piano dreams of being a real piano.
All electronics performance, recording, sampling and editing by myself, as well as the live toy piano performance. Premiered March 9, 2009.
Copyright © 2009 Clio Montrey

Spielzeug | COMPOSITION

Composition by Clio Montrey
Poems by Klara Du Plessis
Anne Wieben, Soprano
Giuseppe Montesano, Conductor
Musicians: Magdalena (flute), Stefanie Gansch (oboe), Anna Eppel (clarinet), Lindsey Huff (piano), Alessandro Malizia (violin), Anna Morgoulets (viola), Elisaveta Sharakhovskaya (cello), Maximiliano Igor (bass).
This is the fifth song from a cycle of five based on Klara’s poetry. The cycle (of poems as well as of songs) is in arch form. A mannequin/woman narrator tells her story, the expectations placed upon her, her fears, her hopes, her roles.
Composition Copyright © 2011 Clio Montrey

Mannequin Songs i coquette

<p>Composition by Clio Montrey
Poems by Klara Du Plessis
Anne Wieben, Soprano
Giuseppe Montesano, Conductor
Instrumentalists: Magdalena Bogner (flute), Stefanie Gansch (oboe), Anna Eppel (clarinet), Lindsey Huff (piano).
This is the fourth song from a cycle of five based on Klara’s poetry. The cycle (of poems as well as of songs) is in arch form. A mannequin/woman narrator tells her story, the expectations placed upon her, her fears, her hopes, her roles.
Composition Copyright © 2011 Clio Montrey

Mannequin Songs ii (IV) | COMPOSITION

The first from "Two Songs on Poems by Schiller. Written for the composer-in-residence position for the McGill Chamber Singers, premiered February 2008. Soprano soloists: Claire de Sevigne, Barbara Heath. Conductor: Robert Ingari. Pianist: Lynette Wahlstrom.
Composition Copyright © 2008 Clio Montrey

Des Mädchens Klage | COMPOSITION

Sylvester Perschler, Clarinet
Clio Montrey, toy piano
Composition and cover art by Clio

Play of the Partials | COMPOSITION

SLEEP is a science-fiction chamber opera by Anthony R. Green (music) and Clio Em (libretto) that tells the story of two women – an Organic (human woman) and a Mech(her technological copy) - who look exactly alike. They are stuck in a testing centre dormitory and regard each other during a sleepless night. Each woman sings about how she will defeat the other – the triumph of one will mean the death of her twin|opponent. Sometimes their vocal lines join; sometimes they diverge. Their perspectives mirror each other but have subtle, significant differences. 

This workshop version was put on by Chants libres as part of their Works in progress concerts on March 16 and 17, 2019 at Gesù at Quartier des spectacles, Montréal.

Image by Hali Rey.

Anthony Green/Clio Em - SLEEP - Chants libres workshop version

This is a live recording of an improvisation I did in August 2011, upon which I based the piece "Cantero", which I completed and premiered in 2012. I improvised what you hear on this recording after having read a very atmospheric short story by Victor Baez. It is one of the only times in my life that the music I improvised reflected the atmosphere I imagined utterly and completely.

Photo taken by me on the Mexican Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, where some repairs were being made, summer 2012.

Copyright © 2011-2012 Clio Montrey.

Cantero | IMPROVISATION

An excerpt from my composition "Three Musical Haiku" on three haiku by Matsuo Basho.
"Sea" is one of the soundfiles triggered during the performance of the piece.

Description of Three Musical Haiku:
Three different musical haiku, based on Matsuo Basho's poems, speak through female voice, water, and paper. Electronic echoes and communications continue the tale. The first poem tells of an old pond and of a frog jumping into the sound of water. The second speaks of the sea, and the third paints a picture of life and of cherry blossoms. Together, the poems form a narrative that can be interpreted in many ways. In one interpretation, the three haiku can be considered a representation of the resilience of the human spirit in the face of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. We see the face of life and the face of the elements, coexisting despite harshness.

Composition and recording Copyright © 2013 Clio Montrey

"Sea," from Three Musical Haiku | COMPOSITION

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