Stunning, beautiful piece, Ryan!  Loved it!

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by François Lopez- Ferrer
Recorded live in Huddersfield on November 19th, 2022
Publishing: Maison ONA

Le lieu et la formule (2019 - rev. 2022) for large ensemble

Extinguish Thou My Eyes (2022)
for chamber winds
transcription by David Thornton and David Biedenbender

Michigan State University Symphony Band
David Thornton, conductor
April 25, 2023  |  Wharton Center for the Performing Arts, East Lansing, MI

"Extinguish Thou My Eyes" was originally a choral setting of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Lösch mir die Augen aus," written for and premiered by Dale Voelker and the Washington Kantorei. This transcription for chamber winds was created by David Thornton and David Biedenbender.
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"Extinguish Thou My Eyes" by Rainer Maria Rilke

Extinguish Thou my eyes: I still can see Thee,
deprive my ears of sound: I still can hear Thee,
and without feet I still can come to Thee,
and without voice I still can call to Thee.

Sever my arms from me, I still will hold Thee
with all my heart as with a single hand,
arrest my heart, my brain will keep on beating,
and Should Thy fire at last my brain consume,
the flowing of my blood will carry Thee.

(Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming)

Extinguish Thou My Eyes

Brian Ferneyhough: In Nomine a 3 for piccolo, oboe and clarinet (2001)

IEMA Ensemble 2017/18

Niamh Dell (oboe)
Moritz Schneidewendt (clarinet)
Katrin Szamatulski (piccolo)

live recording, 15.09.2018
Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst
Frankfurt am Main

Brian Ferneyhough (*1943): In Nomine a 3 for piccolo, oboe and clarinet (2001) (live)

Song Sparrow, Oxtongue Lake

mechanical heart
 perf. at CalArts, 2023 by the WFS Class String Orchestra 2023

thanks to : Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick

mechanical heart

night music : downpour

Performed by Sophie Rowell, Louise King, and Elizabeth Woolnough at the Stradbroke Chamber Music Festival 2023.

Once to Find

ensemble Intercontemporain 
leitung: Matthias Pinscher
UA 21.03.17, Paris, Cité de la musique
Edition Peters/Leipzig

riss 1 für ensemble

When I look around myself for an idea, when I feel as though I have nothing to work with, when I feel as though I am nothing, when I've been made to feel that I am nothing, I look to the strong women that surround me for inspiration. Women's stories are tales of strength, perseverance, fire, and drive. And as the tides of history churn, gaining momentum, it's no longer dangerous to declare that now it's our turn--the women's turn.

The text for this piece is: "Hush now, baby. Don't say a word. Now it's time for the women's turn."

Don't say a word (2017) // Eighth Blackbird & Annika Socolofsky

No. 50 (The Garden) Complete

for two pianos (440/428.5), two percussionists, and electronics

ensemble sans visage

The conceit of dividing time (2018)

Music by Ryan Chase has been described as “the stuff of memory” (The Herald-Times) and “whirlwind… deftly explored contrasts of mood, from bombastic to introverted.” (The New York Times)  His pieces have been performed and recorded by such artists and ensembles as Alarm Will Sound, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Chelsea Symphony, Collage New Music, Contemporaneous, Flux Quartet, Mivos Quartet, the Society for New Music, and the Texas State University Wind Symphony.

Accolades for his work include an Emmy® nomination, a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fromm Commission, and multiple awards from ASCAP and BMI.  He holds degrees from the Mannes College of Music and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, studying with Keith Fitch, Claude Baker, David Dzubay, Don Freund, and Gabriela Ortiz.  He presently serves as associate professor of music at Colgate University.

The conceit of dividing time (2018)

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