a fairy tale for female voice and ensemble 
text: traditional, adapted by Peter Fahey
Irish National Opera feat. Daire Halpin and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, cond. Fergus Sheil, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, December 17, 2020

Through & Through: Capriccio [radio broadcast]

Lamento for voice and electronics by Franck Bedrossian
Texts by Prophet Jeremiah

Niki Lada - Soprano
Alessandro Fiordelmondo - Live Electronics (CSC Padua)

Rondò - CFYP
Divertimento Ensemble, Fabbrica del Vapore (Sala Donatoni) – Milano (MI), Italy 14 June 2022

Lamento for voice and electronics - Franck Bedrossian -- Niki Lada

Performed at OutHEAR New Music Festival in Larissa, Greece, by Klangforum Wien and PPCM Graz

Clarinet: Elena Arbonies Jaregui
Alto Sax: Grald Preinfalk
Flute: Gregory Chalier
Accordion: Krassimir Sterev

Lichtbrechungen (Clarinet, Alto Sax, Flute, Accordion) 2022 Klangforum Wien & PPCM Graz

This piece is an experiment I co-created with medieval art historian Denva Gallant. The text is a small fragment taken from a story about St. Macarius who was an Egyptian monk and hermit.

Demo Recording
Denva Gallant, narrator
Maya Bennardo and Tyler J. Borden, strings
Christopher Stark, electronics/vocoder

From The Life Of Macarius

Quicksand (Spaces Flex Shimmer Edit)

solo piano and electronics (four-channel, tape)
Commissioned by Piano Spheres Concert Series
Premiere performance by pianist Vicki Ray, February 23rd, 2016, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), Los Angeles, USA.

Recording Engineer: Adam Borecki

Pale Fire (2015)

Los Órganos (2017)
for prepared trompet and organ

Collaborative music by Vladimir Guicheff Bogacz (tr.) and Jan Esra Kuhl (org.)

Live recording of the performance during the 13. Internationales Festival für Zeitgenössische Orgelmusik, September the 16th, 2017 in Sankt Peter Kunst Station, Cologne, Germany

Los Órganos

Video: https://youtu.be/hFBmetralio

Performed by Orchestra 2001 with Jayce Ogren (conductor) and Rinde Eckert (narrator)

I. The subtleness of the sea
II. Whale-Lines
III. Old age
IV. The color white

Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" (1851) was famously described by D.H. Lawrence as "the greatest book of the sea ever written". It tells the story of an obsessive sea captain who decides to take revenge on Moby Dick - the whale that bit off his leg. In this composition for narrator and ensemble I offer musical responses to Melville's alluring prose.

Four Fragments from Moby Dick (2017)

Sini Virtanen, violin
McCormick Percussion Group
Robert McCormick, conductor

live recording from the world premiere
April 8, 2018 10am (rescheduled from April 7, 2018 7:30pm due to a sudden campus-wide power outage and subsequent evacuation)
2018 USF New-Music Festival
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
USA






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ICE CONCERTO (2018) for violin solo and percussion ensemble

Dedicated to the musicianship of the violin artista Sini Virtanen (Helsinki, FI) — commissioner of the work, funded by Madetoja Foundation — as well as Robert McCormick and his McCormick Percussion Group (USF Tampa, FL). They all gave an absolutely spectacular world premiere at the enticingly tour-de-force USF New-Music Festival 2018 in Tampa, followed by a concentrated and highly musical world premiere recording of my musical little daydream, later on the very same day (!), at the city's prestigious Spring Theatre studio.

© 2018 Jarkko Hartikainen

ICE CONCERTO (2018) for violin solo and percussion ensemble

Kymi Sinfonietta, cond. Olari Elts
World premiere, 19 February 2020, Kotka
Second performance, 20 February 2020, Kuusankoskitalo
Documentary archive recording

Commissioned by Kymi Sinfonietta to be premiered attacca before Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major "Eroica" (the beginning of which is included in this recording).

Overture in E-flat "Eroica" (2020) for orchestra and soundtrack

I.- Quand le psittirostre zinzinule (ca. 9′) 
II.- Novembre (in memoriam Jean-Claude Risset & Corinna L.) (ca. 6′)

Premiere: 30 Nov. 2019, Festival Rainy Days, Luxembourg, Anna-Maria Hoelscher: Acc.; Florian Hoelscher: Piano

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Peter Fahey Composer