Commissioned by Dominic Donato for SUNY Purchase Percussion Ensemble
Duration: in progress Instrumentation: percussion ensemble Premiere: Fall 2012, Purchase NY
in-retro|re-intro:spect (2011)
written for the 2011 Wellesley Composers Conference
Performed by Resident Ensemble of the Wellesley Composers Conference conducted by James Baker - August 2011, Wellesley MA.
Duration: 7 minutes Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, horn, trombone, 2 percussions, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass Premiere: August 3 2011, Wellesley MA | James Baker - conductor / Barry Crawford - flute / Peggy
Pearson - oboe / Jean Kopperud - clarinet / Patrick Pridemore - horn / Tom Hoyt - trumpet /
Benjamin Herrington - trombone / Dominic Donato - percussion / Ben Paysen - percussion / Blair
McMillen - piano / Owen Dalby - violin / Miranda Cuckson - violin / Louise Schulman - viola /
Joshua Gordon - cello / Pascale Delache-Feldman - double bass Performance: Fall 2012, Purchase NY
There is a Painted Bus (2011)
Commissioned by the Singapore Lyric Opera Co. Ltd. Duration: 5 mins Instrumentation: acapella SSA childrens choir Premiere: July 15 2011, Singapore | Singapore Lyric Opera Childrens Choir / Ai Ming Khor - conductor
Singapore Lyric Opera Childrens Choir
The Remorse of the Dead (2011)
Performed by Peabody Singers conducted by Lee Mills - April 2011, Baltimore, MD.
Duration: 6 mins
Instrumentation: acapella SATB choir
Recording: April 2011 | Baltimore, MD
Peabody Singers
Lee Mills - conductor
trans-[migra].nation (2010)
First Prize Winner - Prix d'Ete
Finalist - ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
Presented at the 2011 Asian Composers League Festival and Conference
Winner - ABLAZE Records Millenial Masters Vol.3
In memory of Steven Baxter
Recorded by Jason Rogers at the Peabody Recording Studios - March 2011, Baltimore, MD.
Performance at the Prix d'Ete prize presentation ceremony - April 2011, Baltimore, MD.
Performance by Peabody Musicians and Maestra Gemma New - February 2011, Baltimore, MD.
Duration: 11 mins Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, horn, bass trombone, percussion, piano, violin, double bass Premiere: February 2011, Baltimore, MD | Stephanie Ray - flute and piccolo / Gleb Kanasevich -
clarinet / Shona Leopold-Goldberg - french horn / Joe Buono - bass trombone / Sao Aoki -
percussion / Kyoohye Hannah Lim - piano / Alan Choo - violin / Dennis Caravakis - double bass /
Gemma New - conductor Performance: April 2011, Baltimore, MD | Stephanie Ray - flute and piccolo / Gleb Kanasevich -
clarinet / Shona Leopold-Goldberg - french horn / Joe Buono - bass trombone / Sao Aoki -
percussion / Kyoohye Hannah Lim - piano / Alan Choo - violin / Dennis Caravakis - double bass /
Gemma New - conductor
November 2011, Tachung Taiwan | Members of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Fusao
Kajima - conductor / Shuo-Yu Chang - flute / Yee-Ching Hsiou - clarinet / Pei-Chin Tsai - horn / Yu-
Chien Yu - bass trombone / Che-Ming Tsai - percussion / Hui-Chun Lin - piano / I-Hsien Chang -
violin / Pey-Shiun Dai - double bass
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 ensemble 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: 10 minutes Instrumentation: chamber orchestra Premiere: April 2008, Singapore | Conservatory New Music Ensemble / Chan Tze Law - conductor
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, Singapore | Conservatory New Music Ensemble / Chan Tze Law - conductor Performances: April 2009, Seoul South Korea | Asian Festival Ensemble
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