“For Music” is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble, weaving together the poetry of Lord Byron to explore a narrative centered on the presence and absence of music.

Composer and voice: Iulia Sinescu
Virtual Instruments & Mastering: www.smorfe.ro

For Music

This is an extremely obscure work for piano by the Australian composer Mary Bowden, about whom I have been able to find almost no information.  There's a performance of the original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxpeRcZUYeM.  It's a very Graingerish sort of work, which gave me the idea to arrange it for concert band.  This is a synthesized version at the moment, but I'm hoping to arrange a real recording.

Joyous Morn (Mary Bowden arr. for concert band by Daniel Alt)

Santa BUŠS : 'Mēness upes gaismas tuksnešu pusvārdos' 
for 4 musicians - for saxophone (alto), kokle (concert and bass), percussion (books, typewriter, pencils, cymbals, paper, etc.) and Moon Modular 5U Synthesizer
(2025) 
Trio Tresensus (Aigars Raumanis, Līga Griķe, Uģis Upenieks) and Reinis Rabenau
(live recording : 07.05.2025. : Riga Latvian Society House, Latvia)

This piece is inspired by the poetry of Veronika Strēlerte, drawing its title from a fusion of her six poetry  collections - Simple Words, Raindrop, Moon River, Deserts of Light, Years of Grace, and In Half-Words. Each collection carries its own imagery and tone, yet together they form an emotional and thematic continuum. The music mirrors this by unfolding in six episodes, each reflecting the essence of one collection, while gradually flowing into one another - like layers of meaning revealed over time. 
The musical language is shaped by the poetic qualities I find most striking in Strēlerte: intense imagery, delicate intimacy, and a lyrical abstraction that balances clarity with mystery. Instrumental parts - including books and writing tools as sound sources - reflect on writing itself as both action and necessity in her life.
The modular synthesizer part plays a central role. Its unpredictable, luminous, and often otherworldly voice captures something of the moonlight, wind, and half-said thoughts that ripple through Strēlerte’s work. At the heart of the piece are also the three unique musicians of Trio Tresensus - their contrasting personalities, voices, and instruments come together like a finely woven fabric of nuance and detail. 
Composed in Gotland, where Strēlerte herself once landed as a refugee, the work also echoes her journey and presence in this place - both fragile and powerful.

Santa BUŠS : 'Mēness upes gaismas tuksnešu pusvārdos'

“Valse Lente” (Slow Waltz) by Mélanie Bonis — performed by the Mada & Hugh Piano Duo

A wistful and tender waltz from the French Romantic composer Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937), known for her lyrical voice and refined harmonic colors. Valse Lente unfolds with delicate grace, revealing Bonis’s poetic sensibility and subtle sense of melancholy.

Performed by the Mada & Hugh Piano Duo, this interpretation captures the piece’s gentle sway and emotional intimacy, highlighting Bonis’s artistry as one of the underrepresented female composers of her time.

🎙️ Recorded and produced by A Musical Life Media

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Valse Lente

Alma Mahler-Werfel - Die stille Stadt

“A New Year Begins” is a modern choral-symphonic journey written and produced by Abigail Markley with assistance from my Great Friend Miami.
Recorded with orchestral richness and emotion, this collection celebrates courage, compassion, and the shared rebirth of humanity at the turning of the year.
From the whisper of a lone tenor to the power of a thousand voices, every movement glows with hope and unity — a musical sunrise over every country and beyond.

A New Year Begins (movement 2“a new year-a new heart”)

A New Year Begins (movement 4 “the turning”

A New Year Begins (movement 3 “the promise”)

A New Year Begins (movement 1 “a new dawn is upon us”)

A New Year Begins (movement 5 “the celebration of renewal”)

Abigail Markley is a true indie force — a folk, alt-pop, dance, jazz, and storytelling powerhouse whose music moves effortlessly between tenderness and fire. Her sound is beginning to ripple across Europe and North America, especially within the queer dance scene, where she brings beats, boldness, and heart to every space she touches.

A dedicated community advocate, Abigail volunteers her time mentoring other Trans and Nonbinary artists, offering writing clinics, creative guidance, and free studio sessions. Her song “Every Candle Has a Name” has become a cherished part of Transgender Day of Remembrance events across the English-speaking world.

Abigail writes from the raw edge of lived experience — weaving identity, resilience, justice, memory, and queer joy into a voice that feels both intimate and cinematic.

Based in Ohio, she founded 🌈 Inclusive Rainbow Studios, her heart-centered creative home. With a catalog of over 200 original works, her artistry continues to grow, evolve, and shine.

She invites listeners to connect with her on socials, join her at live events, and experience the journey as it unfolds.

Written by:Mimi Cohn 
(a frequent collaborator of Abi’s)

www.orgavoce.com

https://www.udk-berlin.de/startseite/news/erhoere-uns-suesse-freiheit/ 

https://helenispirian.wixsite.com/musik

santa.buss@gmail.com

Santa BUŠS is a Latvian composer especially interested in detailed pre-compositional process and working with extra-musical ideas (found in other art forms, physiology, history, mythology, nature, architecture, medicine, sports, philosophy, etc.). 

Though her main focus and form of expression has been linked with instrumental music, lately she has discovered a deep interest in the voice and its possibilities, as well as being keen to expand her approach towards sound, composition and exploring different forms of collaboration. 
This also includes exploring territories between conventional and unconventional notation and performance techniques, as well as experimenting between the boundaries of music, theatre and opera, often focusing on the physical manipulation of instruments and the presence of musicians as a source of drama. 

She has studied both composition and musicology at the Latvian Academy of Music and Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. 

Her works have been performed throughout Europe, in North America and Asia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgBltNTuhvU

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