The Hare sleeps with open eyes
While clicking his jaws
This makes his ears quiver
And constantly he awakens

In the spring the Hare is silvery
The Hare varies frequently.

The Hare eats clovers
Dwarf-willows, other flowers
And the bark of the daphne
Which makes his nose tickle badly

In the summer the Hare is russet
The Hare is often varied.

The Hare goes for a saunter
Hopping along in the salads
He follows the hay carts
Gleaning the blades, but from afar

In the fall the Hare is ginger
Again he has changed his color!

The Hare has fled the hunter
In the burrow of some groundhog
Choosing that of the fox 
Would have been a grave blunder

In winter the Hare is white
The Hare varies all the time.

Le Lièvre Variable

Graviton is my third piece for orchestra. Have a blast! ;)

Performed by NorrlandsOperan's Symphonic Orchestra. 
Conductor: Petter Sundkvist 
Recording engineer: Johannes Oscarsson 

Graviton

"The Dolphins" is a contribution to the AIDS Quilt Songbook.  The text, by Richard Harteis, is sung by the incomparable Susan Narucki accompanied by J.J. Pena at the Norfolk Festival.

The Dolphins (1995)

Live recording from the premiere. April 24, 2016, University of Maryland. 
Spektral Quartet (Austin Wulliman, Clara Lyon, Doyle Armbrust, Russell Rolen) + Claire Chase (flutes)

The Real Book of Fake Tunes (2015), mvt 1

Composed as part of the L.A. based Lyris Quartet's 2015 "Intimate Letters" commission/recording project. I imagined that if a letter is meant to be read, then music is meant to be heard. In this is 10-11 minute piece for string quartet, all the twists and turns that instigate change are begun by the second violin and viola...the first violin and cello have no option but to oblige and follow suit.

K. Rohde - Inside Voice For String Quartet (2015)

String Quartet No. 1

A ten minute piece for 'Pierrot' ensemble written in 2000 on commission from the Da Capo Chamber Players. This is the live premiere.

PEAL

Le dernier chant du dernier oiseau

Piano Fractal no. 4 - "Labyrinth" (2019) (Dedicated to Hagai Yodan)
by Amos Elkana (b. 1967) 

* World Premiere Recording *

| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

Amos Elkana: Fractal no. 4 - "Labyrinth" | Hagai Yodan, piano

Described by LA Weekly as “an original composer with something important to say”, French composer Philippe Bodin is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of a 2010 Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A Doctor of Musical Arts from Yale University School of Music where he studied with Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, Ezra Laderman, and Nicholas Maw, Philippe Bodin has taught composition in the Yale University Department of Music, at Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music, and at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.
 
His compositions have received awards and accolades in several international competitions: VocalEspoo (Winner, Helsinki, Finland, 2018), International Alkema Composition Contest (Finalist, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2014), Shipley Arts Festival (Recital Music Award, UK, 2011), American Composers Orchestra Underwood Readings (Finalist, NYC, USA, 2007), Barlow (Honorable Mention, UT, USA, 2006), Lutosławski (Second Prize, Warsaw, Poland, 2005), Asia Pacific Festival (Winner, Wellington, New Zealand, 2006), Brave New Works (Winner, MI, USA, 2006), Homage to Mozart (Grand Prize, Moscow, Russia, 2006), Utah Arts Festival (Winner, UT, USA, 2006), Angelo-Comneno (Top Prize, Rome, Italy, 2006), and Music of Changes (Winner, Los Angeles, USA, 2001).

Philippe Bodin has received commissions from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Chœur de Radio-France, and Ensemble TM+ (France), Orkest de Volharding and Electra (Netherlands), Trio Kungsbacka (Sweden) and, in the US: Eroica trio, Mannes trio, trio Mojave, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Empyrean, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Lost Dog, pianist Genevieve Lee and the Barlow Endowment, American Composers Forum, Jerome Foundation, The Argosy Foundation, and the Utah Arts Festival, among others.

Invited in the artist colonies of MacDowell, Banff, Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Philippe Bodin also received grants from the Copland Foundation, the American Music Center, ASCAP, and Meet the Composer.

Previous to his activities as a composer, Philippe Bodin studied mathematics, physics, architecture, piano, organ, and voice. Philippe Bodin currently resides in Paris, France, working as a freelance composer and a teacher in vocal performance in the conservatory of Kremlin-Bicêtre.

Le Lièvre Variable

Philippe Bodin

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