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Vaughan String Quartet premiering Ka Spoojmai Shwa Poh Hala Ke by Seare Farhat at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Evolution: Quartet in Summer 2022.

Ka Spoojmai Shwa Poh Hala Ke (like the halo around the moon...)

This piece is constructed in 3 movements in attacca form.
I. Lac calme, réverbération des vagues ondulantes, et lumière... /
잔잔한 호수, 일렁이는 물결의 잔향, 그리고 빛...
II. Une ombre, apparaît peu à peu... /
서서히 드리워지는 그림자...
III. Le festin des éclats lumineux /
빛 파편들의 향연

Premiered in Seoul art center
by Timf ensemble

09.22.2022

Son de Lumiére- refletèe dans le lac

Premiered in Geneva
by HEM ensemble
03.06.2022

Rouge, La Couleur Provocante

La vision de l'extase II

Recorded by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, February 2023
Conducted by Juliano Dutra Aniceto

Frika (Excerpt)

Riven BMI COMPOSER AWARD WINNER 2023 Natasha Frank ft, Suuvi

Read by the Juilliard Orchestra on April 24, 2023. 
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

As if sharing a joke with nothingness (2023) for orchestra

Arboreal - Maxwell Lu

longing is an aviary (2023) for orchestra
 
This work draws its title from Ross Gay’s poem “Because,” which depicts longing with an evocative catalogue of images which are quivering, luminous, and full of motion. I explore this same trembling effect in a series of tightly controlled, virtuosic dances for orchestra which spiral outwards from a single pitch. This music is driven by a kaleidoscopic sense of color, a process of refracting and unwinding, and a momentum which eventually builds into a frenzied, shimmering aviary of birds. longing is an aviary was written for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, conducted by Tim Weiss in Spring 2023.

Performed April 2023 by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and conductor Tim Weiss, Symphony Center, Chicago, IL. Mixed and mastered by Marc Alletag.

Special thanks to Jonathan McCormick and Anna Thompson

Image: 'Aviary' by Annie Davidson

longing is an aviary (2023) for orchestra

Paul Novak