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Generations (2010)

Written as part of the Peabody Opera Etudes Program.


Performance by Peabody Opera - May 2010, Baltimore MD

Duration: 15 minutes

Instrumentation: 4 sopranos, piano, percussion (vibraphone + glockenspiel) and double bass

Premiere: May 5 2010, Baltimore, MD | Peabody Opera Theatre + Peabody Musicians
Annie Laing - great-grandmother / Katherine Krueger - grandmother / Danielle Edwards - mother
Alexandar Iranfar - daughter / Gemma New - conductor / Hyejin Kwon - piano
Tatevik Khoja-Eynatyan - percussion / Emily Koh - double bass / Katherine Krueger - librettist
Roger Brunyate - stage director / JoAnn Kulesca - music director

Synopsis: Generations is a one-act opera set in the Korean War and in modern times telling the stories of four generations of women within a single family. A single woman struggling to survive in a time when divorce was not yet acceptable (Great-grandmother). A young teenager willing to risk everything to be with the man she loves (Grandmother). A woman broken by a terrible secret (Mother), and a modern young woman just starting her life (Daughter). Generations is the story of this youngest woman's discovery of the stories of the other women in her family, as well as her own reflection and self discovery.

Reflections on a Dialect (2009)

Commissioned by the ArtsSphere Chamber Ensemble.


Duration: 9 minutes

Instrumentation: mixed chinese ensembled

Premiere:

At the End of the End (2009)

Performed by Khor Ai Ming and Conservatory musicians conducted by Jun Wong - March 2009, Singapore.

Duration: 17 minutes

Instrumentation: solo mezzo soprano, SATB choir, 3 percussionists, piano, cello

Premiere: March 19 2009, Singapore
Khor Ai Ming - mezzo soprano / Rhoda Wong - soprano / Michelle Yeoh - alto
Gerald Tan - tenor / Harris Ang - bass / Low Shao Suan - piano
Ekachai Maskulrat - cello / Sun Yi, Sun Cheng, Su Shu - percussion
Jun Wong - conductor

Synopsis: A woman dies and enters the realm of the 'In-Between' - a place where someone goes after physical death to evaluate their lives. In the In-Between, the woman meets other people and gets acquainted with other ideas and philosophies, which helps her evaluation of herself.

Folly Folio (2009)

Performed by Leah Greenfield and Conservatory Chamber Singers conducted by Dr Katherine Wallace - April 2009, Singapore.

Duration: 5 minutes

Instrumentation: SATB choir and violin obbligato

Premiere: April 2009 | Conservatory Chamber Singers/Dr Katherine Wallace
Leah Greenfield - violin

Longing Full Circles (2008)

Duration: 10 minutes

Instrumentation: chamber orchestra

Premiere: April 2008 | Conservatory New Music Ensemble/Maestro Chan Tze Law

III. als Leben (2007)

Represented Singapore at the Young Composers Competition organized by Asian Composers League.
Presented at Asia-Pacific Contemporary Music Festival 2009, Seoul, South Korea.


Performed by Conservatory New Music Ensemble conducted by Chan Tze Law - November 2007, Singapore.

Duration: 10 minutes

Instrumentation: chamber orchestra

Premiere: November 2007 | Conservatory New Music Ensemble/Maestro Chan Tze Law

Performances: April 2009 | Asian Festival Ensemble

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