Birds

Photo by Hans Falklind

Cecilia Ekmark commissioned me (thanks to generous funding from Statensmusikverk) to write a new piece for flute(s) and piano (Roger Johansson), inspired both by Hans Falklind‘s bird photographs and birdsong, for her ongoing project called Birds. This project is also supported by Sveriges ornitologiska förening (SOF) and BirdLife International. We met twice in Göteborg to develop material through improvisation, which I have now used as raw material to create the piece. Tomas Tranströmer’s early poem ‘Preludium’ is woven throughout the piece, which is titled ‘Vingarna breddas’ (‘The Wings Spread’). The project premiered 26 May 2013 in Gothenburg’s 3.e Våningen.

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Chamber Music * PROJECTS: Upcoming

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Somniloquy

for bass clarinet, tenor/bari sax, piano; also for bass clarinet, cello, piano

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Romanska Bågar (Romanesque Arches)

soprano, bass, and chamber orchestra (flute/alto flute, oboe/English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, harp, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, contrabass)
[Swedish text: Tomas Tranströmer] Read more »

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Zosa

oboe and piano Read more »

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The Bears Wake Up

2-part children’s chorus with piano
(text: Marilyn A. Johnson)

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Groundings

alto sax, cello, and piano

also: cl. (A)-vc-pno • alto fl.-vc-pno • alto fl.-bsn-pno • alto sax-bass cl.-pno • piano trio • soprano-Indian harmonium-vn-pno • alto fl.-contrabass fl.-pno
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Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky

solo marimba
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I Dream’d in a Dream

TTBB choir, violin, and piano
SATB choir, violin, and piano
[text: Walt Whitman] Read more »

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Aspetuck Waters

piano with string orchestra and percussion

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Chants d’Amour et de Mort

tenor, violin, cello, and piano
[song cycle of poetry by Isabelle Balot] Read more »

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Pastorale and Invention

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