Student Recital: Solo Works by Curtis Composers

Join us for the 2020–21 Student Recital Series at Curtis with new performances each Friday. This collaborative concert features five new solo works by Curtis composition students. We first hear It’s coming by Nathan Sean Bales, a foreboding and surprisingly melodic work for solo timpani. Next, the solemn and mysterious Scenes from Snow’s Alley uses the organ to depict scenes from composer Alistair Coleman’s childhood experiences in Snow’s Alley, Washington, D.C. Maya Miro Johnson’s Life after death? guides the performer through an improvisatory process, translating spectrograms from a scientific dataset into music and asking, “What does it take to make an afterlife?” Elise Arancio’s Made From Broken Mockingbirds follows, in which the performer both plays their instrument and simultaneously speaks a text written by the composer. Elizabeth Younan’s Fantasia IV for solo violin concludes the program in free and fiery fashion.

Recitals are free and open to the public online. Free registration is required and grants you on-demand access to the recital video.

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