Hwa (Flowering)
2023
8 minutes
2/2/2/2, 4/3/3/1, Timp, 2 Perc, Hp, Str
Commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gustavo Gimeno, with generous support from the RBC Foundation, as part of the RBC Affiliate Composer Residency (2022-24) with the TSO. Premiered by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jader Bignamini, Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 24, 2023.
Recording available upon inquiry.
Flowing Waters
2022
13 minutes
2/2/2/2, 2/2/3/1, Timp, 2 Perc, Str
Commissioned by Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO), Music Director Alexander Shelley, and the Canada Council for the Arts, as part of the Carrefour Composer Residency (2020-22) with the NACO. Premiered by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, conducted by Jordan de Souza, Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada, March 8, 2023.
Sanctuary
2020
13 minutes
2/2/2/2, 2/2/2/1, 2 Perc, Hp, Pn, Str
Commissioned by Esprit Orchestra with support from the Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation. Premiered by Esprit Orchestra, conducted by Alex Pauk, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 9 2022.
Recording available upon inquiry.
River Memory
2018
10 minutes
3/3/3/3, 4/3/3/1, Timp, 3 Perc, Hp, Pn, Str
Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in partnership with University of Ottawa, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Premiere conducted by Janathan Darlington at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Canada, July 26 2018.
River Memory is a work inspired by the Niagara Falls, contemplating on the transformation of human identity as part of the immigration and diaspora experience.
CLICK HERE for program note.
CLICK HERE for a blog post for Esprit Orchestra on the composing process of River Memory.
Full recording:
2 minutes
3/3/3/3, 5/3/3/1, Timp, 3 Perc, Hp, Pn, Str
Commissioned by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. Reading and recording session with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, conducted by Cliff Colnot, Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, IL, USA, Feb 5 2019.
Recording available upon inquiry.
Espace Lumière
2018
Waves, Exile
2016
10 minutes
3/3/3/3, 4/4/3/1, Timp, 3 Perc, Hp, Pn, Str
Winner of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra call for scores (2016). Reading by the TSO, conducted by Gary Kulesha in Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Canada, Jan 28 2017.
The work is about journeys of no return. It was inspired by poetry excerpts from the American poet Tim Nolan’s My Dead:
“They live in The Land of Echo, The Land
Of Reverb, and I hear them between
The notes of the birds, the plash of the wave
On the smooth rocks. They show up
When I think of them, as if they always
Are waiting for me to remember”
Full recording:
8 minutes
3/3/3/3, 4/3/3/1, Timp, 3 Perc, Hp, Pn, Str
Bachelor of Music degree thesis composition. Premiered by the Manhattan School of Music Composers’ Orchestra, conducted by David Gilbert, New York, NY, USA, Feb 2015.
Full recording:
JOURNEY
2014