Stephen Yip: By the Lotus Pond

Stephen Yip

…Prize, the Singapore International Composition Competition for Chinese Orchestra, the Haifa International Composition Prize, the ALEA III composition Competition, and the fourth NACUSA Texas Composition Competition. His works have been…

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2010 Sydney

…this world event. One that counted numbers of ‘premieres’ in many other fields than music, and a festival during which one could rejoice of the successes and evolution of the…

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João Madureira: Open Enclosure

João Madureira

…dimensions. About his 2019 composition Open Enclosure, the composer writes: After the work Ausgraben und Erinnern (2006, commissioned by the Miso Music Portugal), – which literally means “dig out and…

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María Eugenia Luc: Jing

Maria-Eugenia-Luc

…In ten minutes approximately, Jing explores different sonorities and densities inside a climax of pleasant circular evolution. The piece is segmented in four sections, defining fractal proportions between them: each…

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Emily Doolittle: The Wise Daughter

Emily Doolittle

…des Arts et Lettres du Québec, and with artist residencies at MacDowell, Ucross, Blue Mountain Center, Banff, and the Center for Contemporary Art in Glasgow. The Wise Daughter (2009), for…

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Johannes Maria Staud: Listen, Revolution

Johannes Maria Staud

…the piece progresses. These mixtures are capable of unexpectedly “tipping over” at any time, igniting and “instigating” revolutions that radically and permanently change the musical environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NnOHqW6Tsk Johannes Maria Staud:…

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1978 Stockholm, Helsinki

…of compositions or should they be directed toward some central theme?” –Priscilla Proxmire Fennelly, “The 1978 ISCM World Music Days,” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 16 No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1978),…

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