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

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

Sophia Kunxu Dou studies at Juilliard Pre-College with Dr. Daniel Felsenfeld. She is the youngest winner of the 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards for her quartet “Dance of Unconscious Particles”. She is also a member of New York Youth Symphony Composition Program and has received honors from Luna Composition Lab (2022). Her works have been recognized and performed by Grammy-winning conductor David Alan Miller with the Little Orchestra Society, members of the Grammy-winning New York Youth Symphony, and members of The Juilliard School. 
          Sophia is a composer who aspires to write music that shares her emotions and moves others, the same way that she was moved by music. With colorful and folksong-driven melodies, her music brings the audience on an emotional journey. Creating a soundworld both beautiful and bizarre, and full of action. She is often inspired by visual art and poetry, and blends together music of different genres and cultures.
           Aside from composition, she is also a pianist, violinist, vocalist and writer. Her poem “Hope” won the 2022 Burnham-On-Sea Book Festival for the 11-15 category. 

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

Sofia Ouyang