See through me (2021) written for Trio Immersio
(piano trio)
Empathy requires perspective. It is the process of positioning one in another’s experiences and worldview, as if they are seeing through that different pair of eyes as their own. Yet, perspective also questions empathy, where embodying someone’s experience may not always initially gel with another, necessitating work, space, and contemplation.
Two perspectives encompassed by a weight of resonance unravels how the beauty of dissonance can create its own unique form of unity, reflecting the true, complex nature of empathy itself and how it reveals what is truly worth fighting for.
~ Dedicated to Tom ~
This work was written for Trio Immersio as part of the 2021 ICEBERG New Music Institute.
*This work received 2nd Place Prize in the 2022 International Luna Nova Composition Contest and received its US premiere on 17/06/2022 at the 16th Annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival (Tennessee, USA).
*This work received its AUS premiere at Hanson Dyer Hall on 06/05/2022 as part of Helen Shen’s Wattle Fellowship EnviroSound Concert.
*This work received its world premiere performance on 30/07/2021 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria (EU).
PERFORMANCES TO DATE
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Changing Wilds Ensemble performing as part of Music Matinees at Scots Church Melbourne.
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Officially and internationally selected for FOCAM 2024 and feature ensemble Palouse Trio, alongside works by Michael Salvatore Grebla and Oliver Caplan.
Program
About the eventFeaturing music for the in-residence piano trio, Palouse Trio.
The Festival of Contemporary Artists in Music celebrates the music of our time, highlighting the work of WSU student and faculty composers alongside special guests and visiting composers and performers. The 2024 Festival of Contemporary Artists in Music is made possible through generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Music.
FOCAM website: https://music.wsu.edu/focam/
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Curated and performed in Robert McIntyre’s ‘Our Duty to Care | Worlds Collide’ co-presenting with Tempo Rubato and the 2024 National Sustainability Festival.
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Curated and performed at Robert McIntyre’s ‘Our Duty to Care’ concert at Hanson Dyer Hall, as part of his 2022-23 Wattle Fellowship - co-presenting with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and the Melbourne Law School.
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Performance at fortyfivedownstairs in ‘Melody at my Will’, as part of the 2023 fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival.
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This work placed 2nd in the 2022 Luna Nova International Composition Contest and received its US premiere at the 16th Annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, Grace St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Memphis, Tennessee, USA, featuring Hannah Schmidt, Maeve Brophy, Marisa Polesky.
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EnviroSound concert curated and presented by 2021-22 Wattle Fellow Helen Shen and Australian premiere of ‘See through me’.
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This work was written for the award winning Trio Immersio as part of the 2021 ICEBERG New Music Institute.
This work received its world premiere performance on the 30/07/2021 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria (EU).
