a vapor (no body, no image)
for baritone voice & orchestra
2025

written for the Tectonics Festival, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, and Ty Bouque

www.timothy-mccormack.com/a-vapor-no-body-no-image

a vapor (no body, no image) - excerpt

mostly modern/contemporary piano and chamber music, also some of my compositional projects

richard valitutto is a Grammy-nominated piano soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. Described as “a keyboard superstar” (The New Yorker) and as a “vigorously virtuosic,” “all around go-to new music specialist” (LA Times), their soloistic charisma, flexible collaborative artistry, and inquisitive scholarship distinguish them as a performer with a dynamic spirit and openness to experimentation, interdisciplinarity, and creative reflection. They have collaborated and performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Tiny Desk Concerts, PBS Great Performances, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and the American Academy in Rome, among many others.

Their debut solo album of contemporary work premieres, nocturnes & lullabies (New Focus Recordings) was released in March 2020 to critical acclaim. richard is a founding member of the Los Angeles ensemble Wild Up, most notably as “pianist, and resident [Julius] Eastman scholar” (Vogue), contributing their piano artistry, incisive writing, and tenacious research efforts to the ensemble’s ongoing Julius Eastman Anthology, dedicated to the late composer’s music.

Composer, Musician and Researcher based in Tours, FR. 
SACEM Claude Arrieu prize 2020.

Working internationally with Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, C Barré, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble Ars Nova, New European Ensemble, Carolin Widmann... Music featured at festivals such as Présences, Musica, Eclat, or Gaudeamus. Former composer-in-residence at Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Aquitaine.

For any informations about commissions or anything else, get in touch at augustinbraud@gmail.com
For scores, reach my publisher at info@artchipel.net

composer/audiovisual artist/filmmaker/percussionist/improviser/dj
BGSU MM '27
Oberlin TIMARA alum '25

phd fellow in multimedia composition @ brown university
mm royal conservatory of the hague '23

I'll follow you back when SC lifts the follower limit (!)
Loving listening to everyone's music on here :-))))))))))

Albums out on Another Timbre & KAIROS:

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/mine-but-for-its-sublimation

www.kairos-music.com/cds/0018003kai

a vapor (no body, no image) - excerpt

Timothy McCormack