9-10 minutes. String orchestra (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, Vcl, DB). Performed by USC Thornton School of Music musicians, conducted by the composer.

Beautiful places and spaces are inherently mysterious. The music in the piece is meant to depict not a specific landscape, but the experience of exploring a new place. Questions turn to discoveries as the soloists ruminate on what is before them. After a while the music embraces the search, scaling a mountain of notes before returning to meditation.

Loneliness In A Beautiful Place (for string orchestra)

Ionut Mirel Udrea (Member Of APRA/AMCOS) is a music composer, piano player and music producer based in Sydney - Australia. 
Ionut Mirel Udrea composes emotive piano-based instrumental music.

Patrick O’Malley is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and media music. He is inspired by mysterious dichotomies in nature and art, writing music that often embraces abstract worlds and emotions rather than concrete images. Through balancing challenging techniques and traditional expression, O’Malley’s goal is to ignite the listener’s imagination and memory in enduring ways. His works have been performed across the United States and also in Europe.

Most recently, O’Malley has been recognized or performed by organizations including the Albany, Minnesota, Ft. Wayne, and Milwaukee Symphonies, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s National Composer Intensive, The ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and The Aaron Copland House Residency. He was named Composer of the Year by the Sioux City Symphony in 2018, and made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony in 2021. O’Malley also serves as the arranger and a conductor for the video game concert series Journey LIVE with composer Austin Wintory. O’Malley completed his masters and doctoral degrees in music at the University of Southern California where he studied with Andrew Norman and Sean Friar. He divides his time between living in Los Angeles California, and Lake Charlevoix, Michigan.

Loneliness In A Beautiful Place (for string orchestra)

Patrick O'Malley, composer