https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Raghs-Recording.mp3   Raghs Full Score Description Raghs (the Farsi word for dance) is a celebration of Persian dance music and an exploration of my Iranian heritage. Raghs was premiered on May 7, 2019 at the UCLA Spring Undergraduate Composition Concert, Jan Popper Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. The performers in this recording are: Alice Townsend… Read More

This piece was performed for the CLUTCH II Recital Series on November 12, 2019 at the Butler School of Music in Austin, TX. Camera shutter – stutter, flash, click-ck and s-snap. A cinematographic technique in which a single frame shows repeatedly, producing a static shot that resembles a still photograph. “freeze-frame, or: the beauty myth”… Read More

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Clutch_ENS_11-12-2019_Nell_TwoVariationsOnAThemeBySousa.wav Two Variations on a Theme by Sousa Full Score "Two Variations on a Theme by Sousa" is a playful expansion of the first few seconds of one of John Phillip Sousa's famous marches, "The Fairest of the Fair." The piece was conceived during a car ride; I was overcome with inspiration by a particular… Read More

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mayfield_-MIDI-Collin-Kemeny.mp3   Mayfield Full Score Preface Mayfield is the second movement to a suite that captures the composer's nostalgia for his old home. Each movement is based on a place of particular importance, the first being Random Road and the third being Cleveland's Botanical Gardens. This movement, Mayfield, takes place in a cemetery, a setting… Read More

Random Road by Collin Kemeny (b. 1995) performed at the 13th Annual Colorado Composers Concert Flute: Sonya Yeaker-Meeks Clarinet: Brian Ebert Violin: Sarah Whitnah Piano: Joshua Sawicki Cello: Jake Saunders Percussion: Rachel Hargroder Conductor: Richard vonFoerster Program Note Random Road is the first piece to a suite that captures the composer’s nostalgia for his old… Read More

  Songs of Uncertainty is a song cycle in four parts, written for two sopranos and mixed chamber ensemble set with poems from writer and poet Stephen Crane's The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895). While the poems date back over a century, its themes remain strongly relevant today. Our search for something idealized and… Read More