Syriac Fugato 2

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Awards, Performances

• Winner, Pennsylvania State University – 2024 International Call for Scores
• Winner, Earplay – 2023 Annual Vibrant Shores Composition Prize (Syriac Fugato 2,  Violin and Viola Version)
• Selected work, American Viola Society – 2024 Recording Project Album (Syriac Fugato 2, Viola Duo Version)

Premiered by Natalie Clarke and Dominick Douglas at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME, July 30 2022

Other Performances: 

• Performance by Zephyr Wills and Carla Mendoza—Pennsylvania State University—Living Music Festival, Recital Hall, State College, PA, March 13 2024
• Performance by Earplay (Violin and Viola version), Old First Church San Francisco, CA, May 20 2024
• Performance by Tallā Rouge Duo—Dumbarton Oaks—Washington, DC, May 3 2024
• Performance at by Shaleah Feinstein (Violin) and Noémie Chemali (Viola) (Violin and Viola Version) at The Church of the Transfiguration (AKA: The Little Church Around the Corner), New York, NY, March 13 2024
• Performance (Violin and Viola Version) by Ensemble Phoenicia: Charlotte Loukola (Violin) and Noémie Chemali, (Viola), Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY October 2 2023
• Recorded by Joseph Skerik and Brian Isaacs, at Harkness Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 17 2022
• Performed by Natalie Clarke and Dominick Douglas at Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, ME, July 31 2022

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Performance Notes

Syriac Fugato 2 is a derivative work of Syriac Fugato 1. This series draws inspiration from Eugene O’Brien‘s Black Fugatos. What captures my imagination in O’Brien’s work is the seemingly independent time-layers of the various instruments in the ensemble – this sort of beautiful, organized chaos fascinates me. In Syriac Fugato, I employ a totally different technique to that of O’Brien’s controlled aleatory to achieve a comparable effect, all while crafting the work in my own aesthetic.

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