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Buddha and the Monkey King

Tête à Tête Opera Festival 2020 Composer: Anna Vienna Ho Librettist: Michael CT Lam The Monkey King: Lixin Liu The Buddha/Ruanist: Michael CT Lam Piano: Lingling Yu Conductor/Wooden Fish Player: Anna Vienna Ho Venue: The Cockpit, London Date: Saturday 19th September 2020 Description An adaptation of ‘Journey to the West’ by Wu Cheng’en, one of… Read More

The Sorceress

Full Score   The Sorceress   About the Artist Daniel Aaron Ramirez strives to create music with a breadth and scope that reflects his unique and distinctive experiences. Described by the New York Times as “magically atmospheric” and a “vivid capsule of self expression, often at impressive levels of accomplishment”, his compositions blend the intricacy… Read More

Embers in the Black

Full Score   Program Notes: While selecting music for my graduate wind conducting recital, my goal was to create a program that utilized a number of members from our ensemble. As I began the process, I found it challenging to involve the saxophones, low clarinets, and percussion. From what I discovered, chamber wind repertoire tends… Read More

Here

Here Full Score Artist Statement: "Here" is one of the songs in a musical I am developing called "Life Song." This song zooms in and expands upon a mother's last words to her children. In the scene, a single mother, after months of fighting stage 4 cancer, has made peace with her fate. She knows… Read More

Dusk-Line Runner

Full Score and Program Notes Description: “Dusk-Line Runner” is a piece by Jake Miles that explores the power and facility of the saxophone in an intimate chamber setting. The piece aims to pay tribute to the instrument and its esoteric classical tradition in a lively, driving style, with a mood reminiscent of classic American film… Read More

Isolation

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Isolation_Submission_Julia_Vasiliev.mp3 Isolation Full Score   Isolation   About the Artist Julia Vasiliev is a Canadian music composer and pianist. Currently writing music for short films, commercials, and promotional clips. Starting to play piano at the age of 6, improvising and composing has always been a heartfelt passion. Using melancholy moods and themes, Julia uses piano… Read More

Chain of Circumstances

Full Score Description Chain of Circumstances is one of a series of open-form compositions that have occupied my creative interest in recent years. As with the other related works of mine, Chain of Circumstances explores aspects of recombinance, modularity, and non-linear musical structures. In this instance, the work is conceived as a series of disparate,… Read More

New Mexico

Full Score New Mexico About the Artists Gabriel Almazan is a music composer and performer from Southern California, he has his bachelor's degree in music composition from California State University, Los Angeles, and he has performed and has had his music performed around the United States and in Europe. Gabriel started his music career as… Read More