Viola da Gamba

Incantation for tenor viola da gamba and electronics

Viola da gamba: Steuart Pincombe
Performed LIVE in Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin Conservatory 2010.

NOTE: I apologise for the incessant camera clicking...the reporter there was a bit too enthusiastic the entire time but this movement has less of it... 

Sonata V In E Minor For Viola Da Gamba, Mvt. 1

5 short movements. Texts (one by me the other a poem by Emily Dickinson)explore being present in a moment even if that moment is a difficult one. 

Silbersee Vocal Ensemble (Amsterdam) and LOD Muziek Theater (Ghent) Premiered in December 2014.

Watch a video of this performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_w_uYmFwZ4

'Look Up' for 4 voices, viola da gamba and electronics

Title Music for the ten-part radio fiction "Pedro Paramo" on Radio France! Starting June 2012

Francoise Daudin-Clavaud, Flute
Arnaud Dumond, Guitar
Florent Jodelet, Percussion
Sebastien Surel, Violin
Philippe Foulon, Viola da Gamba

Bolero - for Flute, Guitar, Perc.,Violin and Viola da Gamba

COUNTERPOINT on the original harp solo Just Passing By 

viola da gamba recording  = www.ernststolz.com
harp recording = ANNE = www.harpandsoul.com
mix = THIJS =  www.teejay.nl

viola da gamba/harp

Rehearsal for the premiere in March, 2013 at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam. Ere Lievonen, Fokker (31-tone) organ; Mikko Perkola, viola da gamba.

The introductory fanfare uses a 9-note scale (3+4+3+4+3+4+3+4+3=31 steps) in the so called Orwell temperament. The toccata is in extended meantone, making much use of septimal and neutral intervals, 1/5-tones, as well as commas that 31EDO tempers out, such as 176/175.

The viola da gamba is tuned as follows: The 7 strings are tuned to the standard A1-D-G-c-e-a-d1 (with meantone fourths). The seven frets are placed so that the pitches on the A strings are as follows: (A) Bb B C C# Cx D# E (= 3-2-3-2-2-3-3 steps of 31), enabling 21 pitches out of 31.

Fanfare en toccata voor Fokker-orgel & viola da gamba

Samantha was born in Berkshire (UK) in 1984 and now lives in Surrey. She has worked with numerous ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Silbersee Vocal Ensemble and the Riot Ensemble. Her music has been performed at festivals in the UK and abroad ranging from the Gaudeamus Festival 2016 (Netherlands), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015, the Aldeburgh Music Britten Weekend 2014 and the Oxford Lieder Festival 2014. In 2013, she was awarded an RPS Composition Prize and was commissioned to write a new work for the Philharmonia Orchestra as part of the Music of Today series. Her solo flute work, Kinesphere, is available on NMC. Samantha is a Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'Look Up' for 4 voices, viola da gamba and electronics

Samantha Fernando