Recording of a concert. A Requiem for choir and instrumental ensemble.

Luxetaerna - Requiem i vår tid (2012)

Mama
How come you let them do
What they do
All the wronging I was taught I shouldn‘t do
Can it be that they forgot
To be nice to be fair and share what they’ve got

Mama, tell them they are wrong
Oh Mamma, tell them they are wrong

Someone
Seized the treasures of the bloom
Stroke us bad, us be slaves, where water run through 
Can ti be that they forget
That powerful abusing weaker ones is bad

Mama, tell them they are wrong
Oh Mama, tell them they are wrong

'Cause they’re wrong to think that what they do won’t matter
And they’re wrong to think it’s over when they’re over
Hope they're over soon

Mamma, how should I remain full of hope
I came within to live in peace
Where blood runs so cold
It is bigger then we are
Petty ways to remain safe are dying out


'Cause they're wrong to think that what they do won't matter
Wrong to think it’s over when they’re over
Well I hope they’re over soon


Mama

Adult sing:
All for you money
May those money is our doom

Children sing: 
All for your money
May that money is your doom

Money

REBELLION

Last breath of it’s kind
Slips out of this world
One by one
This change is here
Some see it some wants to remain blind

And the youth counts
One by one
And the youth cries
What have you done

This change is gonna come
Indistinct and dim until it’s done

But the world‘s spinning round
And in a new day there’s still sun
Shining on your crimes
Indistinct and dim until it’s done

And the youth counts
One by one
And the youth cries 
What have you done
For an empty cause
Blood of our nature’s drying out

One to kill his time of life
So much suffering, so many die
One by one 
This change is here
Some sees it some wants to remain blind
and some will hopefully hear
How the youth cries

How the youth counts
How the youth counts one by one
How the youth sees that
for an empty cause blood of our nature's drying out

Rebellion

Feed 

My body is heavy today
And there’s no reason to drag it somewhere

Too much feed
I’m idle today
No surprise, no empathy would flow down my spine

Here you have me trapped 
And there’s no reason to hustle
My muscle wouldn’t fight back
Here you have me trapped
And there’s no reason to hustle
One day I wake up to see

That paradise undercover unfold
When they be not feeding me
When they be not feeding me


Feed

LUSH

Let this
Divine
Moment 
last

So present
Hush myself hush
Me needs you to embrace

Lush is divine moment like this
Heroine like
Pleasure ecstatic
Satellites are your fingertips

And all I want to do now is to make them resonate
I could be born and I could die right in your hands
Devoted to you
It never lasts too long
So
Let this
Divine moment last


Lush

ORFEU

Growing on the roses
Petals blue as the sky
Heritage of our faults
Can‘t wait to see you smile

Smile upon our fears
Sacrifice is inevitable but I
Through the haze of doubts
Hope to see you smile

Hope you feel joy
Despite the pain world has ready for you
Hope you feel the bond
To the world
Love it for it burns with desire
Desire for blue
Are the roses 
That we were fighting for

Blue, blue, blue, blue
Blue as the sky
Blue as the ocean
Blue as happiness
Served in a potion

But I hope you feel joy
Despite the pain world has ready for you
Hope you feel the bond
To the world
Love it for it burns with desire
For blue are the
Roses
Blue are the roses
Blue roses
We keep on fighting for


Orfeu

The Island of Doctor Moreau - Brass Band (NotePerformer Mockup)

The Cosmographic Mystery - Brass Band (Live - Oslofjord Brass)

For SATB choir

Music by Marybeth Kurnat
Poetry by William A. Moore (1922)

Commissioned and premiered by Vox Venti - Ed Frazier Davis, director
December 14, 2024
Chicago, IL

In The Time Of The Winter Morn (Live)

Ein Walzer. Eine Erinnerung. Der verträumte Blick auf ein Damals, das es so nie gegeben hat.

Live-Mitschnitt der Uraufführung - Ausschnitt / 26.9.2024 im schwere reiter in München /  Laura Konjetzky, Klavier

Der verträumte Glanz in Reihe 8

Lux Musicae -festivaalin kantaesitystaltiointi 17.11.2024, Siuntion Kirkko.
Esiintyjät: Artturi Aalto, sello, ja Juho Pohjonen, piano
Kuvat: Tuomas Tenkanen (Artturi Aalto) & Lisa-Marie Mazzucco (Juho Pohjonen)

Konserttiarvio: "Haapa-sävellyksessä kuultiin myös Linjaman musiikillinen jazz-muistimerkki. -- Suomalainen säveltaide on saanut ajassa elävän aarteen!" (Arja Alho, Ydin, 4/2024.)

Haapa on 12-minuuttinen kannanotto suomalaisen musiikkikulttuurin puolesta. Haluan teoksella muistuttaa, mitä kaikkea olemme saavuttaneet, ja olenkin sisällyttänyt siihen häivähdyksiä tunnetuista suomalaisista sävellyksistä. Ajatonta kauneutta huokuva teos tuo esiin kulttuurimme upeaa historiaa ja kysyy: ”tämänkö te aiotte leikata?” Teos on itsessään ylistys ajattomalle kauneudelle, ja haluan sen myötä tarjota kulttuurialan myllerryksen keskelle levähdyksen ja voimaantumisen hetken.

Haapa (Populus tremula) (2024) - Maleena Linjama

'Gesang der Maschinen' is an immersive audio walk that unveils the hidden sonic landscapes behind the scenes of the opera house. Through a ten-channel sound installation, Nathalie Brum brings to the forefront the often-overlooked mechanical sounds that underpin opera and theatrical productions. Presented both inside and in the outdoor spaces of the opera house, the installation transforms the venue into a space resonanting into public space where the backstage machinery takes center stage. 

By capturing and recontextualizing the ambient noises of ventilation systems, dimmer cabinets, and other backstage equipment, Brum invites listeners to experience the opera house from a new auditory perspective. The project challenges traditional notions of music and noise, encouraging a deeper appreciation for the acoustic environments that often go unnoticed.

'Gesang der Maschinen' not only highlights the intricate interplay between architecture and sound but also prompts a reflection on the often-invisible infrastructures that shape our sensory experiences in public spaces.

presented as an immersive soundwalk 27 - 28 August 2021 at Oper Wuppertal in Germany
More info: www.nathaliebrum.eu
printed catalogue available: hello@nathaliebrum.eu

Klimazentrale

Tonschaltschrank

Hush- Documentary/Videogame - MIDI

This is a Christmas-themed jingle I wrote for the David White Show on BBC Radio Cornwall. Performed by Kana, a female folk band from Cornwall. This jingle was played on a live episode on BBC Radio on Friday 15th December 2024.

Christmas jingle for the David White Show on BBC Radio Cornwall

“În canon” (In cannon) is a didactic piece designed to help students understand and sing a simple canon. Through accessible melody and clear structure, it introduces the joy of polyphonic singing in a playful, practical way.

Text & music: Iulia Sinescu 
Interpretation: First year's students choir, FCMPM, conductor: Aurel Muraru
Bucharest, 2023

În canon - Third Prize, Coraliada Competition 2023

Digital composer for TV, film and social media

Marybeth Kurnat (1987) is an emerging voice in modern choral music. Her debut work, Epitaph For A Romantic Woman, was premiered by the St. Charles Singers in October 2021. Her recent work, I, Lover, was the 2021-22 winner of True Concord’s Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers’ Competition, and she was selected as a 2023 Composition Fellow for the PREMIERE|Project Festival in Orange County, CA. Eight of her works are slated to premiere throughout 2023 in Illinois, California, Louisiana and Arizona. She has also submitted works to several additional competitions, including HerVoice, Florida State New Music Festival, VOCES8, and ACDA-Illinois. She has been commissioned by soprano Elizabeth Shuman,  Chicago Choral Artists, Baker Memorial Church of St. Charles, Giving Voices Collective, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb High School and the Spectra Choir of Savannah, GA. 

Described as “transcendent” and “otherworldly,” Marybeth's authentic style is strongly influenced by her origin as a jazz saxophonist, most clearly illustrated in her colorful and adventurous harmonic vocabulary and unique command of rhythm. Her piano parts have been frequently praised as “the fifth voice.” Her compositional influences include Brad Mehldau, Wayne Shorter, Jacob Collier, Rollo Dilworth, Dale Trumbore and Stephen Paulus. Her arranging portfolio also includes music for jazz ensemble, concert band, chamber music and commercial a cappella.

Marybeth earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Northern Illinois University, where she studied voice with Diane Ragains and saxophone with Steve Duke. She has taught in Illinois public schools since 2011, and currently serves as a vocal and instrumental music educator in DeKalb, IL. She is a District 8 representative for the Illinois Music Education Association.

In addition to teaching and composing, Marybeth writes poetry, and maintains an active performance schedule as a choral singer and soloist in the greater Chicago area. She is a member of the St. Charles Singers, Chicago Choral Artists, and the Grant Park Music Festival Chorus.

Finnish composer / pianist / jazz singer enjoying life and great music. Currently writing her second piano concerto.
IG: maleenalinjama

Nathalie Brum (born 1988 in Katowice in Poland) is a sound artist and architect living and working in Cologne. Her main interest lies in underlying and overseen infrastructures and its soundscape. Her fieldrecordings of background noise and technical sounds are the basis of her sound transformations. The installations strongly connected to the space of its origin translocate sounds from hidden places to the public.

Composer & Pianist // Alumna of Mozarteum University Salzburg

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