BMI Composer Awards

Vaughan String Quartet premiering Ka Spoojmai Shwa Poh Hala Ke by Seare Farhat at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Evolution: Quartet in Summer 2022.

Ka Spoojmai Shwa Poh Hala Ke (like the halo around the moon...)

Recorded by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, February 2023
Conducted by Juliano Dutra Aniceto

Frika (Excerpt)

Riven BMI COMPOSER AWARD WINNER 2023 Natasha Frank ft, Suuvi

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

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

Arboreal - Maxwell Lu

Compositions

Pulse, Echo for Orchestra

Penelope

Butterflies and Dragons (2011)
Daniel Temkin (b. 1986)
Written for Nonsemble 6 and the Melos Music Festival

Winner, 2012 BMI Composer Award

Butterflies and Dragons was composed for the 2011 Melos Music Festival in San Francisco, CA.  Throughout the piece, I was interested in exploring textures and colors that would sparkle and shimmer, while always maintaining a kinetic dialogue between the instruments.  Writing about the premiere (in which I played the percussion part), Bay-Area critic Adam Broner remarked:

Composer and percussionist Daniel Temkin chose bursts of energy in his sextet.  Here, each instrument is treated almost as a form of percussion: short motifs come off the strings as an explosive force, then refer back to Temkin’s own playing on an array of percussion…[This sextet,] though exuberant, contains a thoughtful core, perhaps the butterfly within the dragon.

Butterflies And Dragons (2012)

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Butterflies And Dragons (2012)

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