Gemstones for piano solo

"Internal Monologue" for Violin and Piano, Yujing Bai

"Foul Murder", Yujing Bai

MILEVA, opera in two acts, 90 minutes, commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad. Premiered on October 21st, 2011. 

Mileva is an opera about Mileva Maric Einstein, the first wife of Albert Einstein. 
The work is commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of Srpsko Narodno Pozoriste (Serbian National Theater) in Novi Sad, Serbia, Maric’s and Vrebalov’s hometown.  The opera is in two-acts (10 scenes), for full orchestra, chorus, 10 soloists, and tape - with documentary audio material such as Albert Einstein’s voice and tamburica band. 
The complex character of Mileva Maric is portrayed by two singers – a lyric soprano for young, idealistic Mileva, and a dramatic soprano for Mileva in later years of her marriage with Einstein, as a way to juxtapose different and often conflicting psychological tendencies of the main character. 
The libretto is written by a Serbian playwright, Vida Ognjenovic, and is based on Ognjenovic’s play Mileva Einstein.  The libretto includes fragments from Shakespeare, and Urworte, a poem by Goethe.  The poem is like a thread of memento mori throughout the opera, always sung by Mileva. The languages in the opera are Serbian, English (the excerpt from Shakespeare and the explanation of the E=mc2 formula in Einstein’s original voice) and German (excerpts from Goethe’s Urworte, and Einstein’s letters). 

for more info: http://www.aleksandravrebalov.com/Aleksandra/MILEVA.html


Epilogue - MILEVA

Piano- Coco Chen
Gemstones
I. Sapphire  II. Opal  III. Amethyst IV. Ruby

Gemstone I - Sapphire

Gemstone II - Opal

Gemstone III - Amethyst

Gemstone IV - Ruby

Movement from The Local Group.

This piece was inspired by our local neighborhood group of galaxies. Some think of these as being massive, but in relation to the observable universe, they are actually quite small.

Yangchunzi Duan, Conductor

Kathleen Shin and David Light - Flute
Liam Boisset and Sebastian Pereschica - Oboe
Nicolas Harrington - Clarinet, Cristian Barazal - Bass Clarinet
Emily Lazernik - Bassoon
Tyler Neufer and Liam Herb - Horn
Daniel Gelman and Mason Grainger - Trumpet
Michael Kiely - Timpani
Ani Bukujian, Samuel Weiser and Alexandros Petrin - Violin 1
Daniel Johnson and Wilton Huang - Violin 2
Justine Preston and Paulina Flores - Viola
Abigail Monroe and Edward Luengo - Cello
Michael Minor and Hsin Jung - Bass

Gemstone IV - Ruby

Yujing Bai

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