Projects

So She Wants to Write a Fugue?

Taken from the title of Glenn Gould’s delightfully silly fugue for a quartet of four voices, this program features fugues written by female composers including Clara Schumann, Lera Auerbach, Irene Britton- Smith, and Grazyna Bacewicz, interspersed with famous fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Here is a clip of the Fugue, from Lera Auerbach’s Chorale, Fugue, and Postlude, written in 2008.

Photo credit Aleksandr Karjaka, 2016I’ve always been intrigued by the different ways composers approach the daunting compositional form of the fugue. This program explores the different methods used by a plethora of composers old, new, and historically excluded. Featuring fugues by Bach, Clara Schumann, Lera Auerbach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Irene Britton-Smith, and Grazyna Bacewicz. — Photo credit Aleksandr Karjaka, 2016
From an ongoing series of performances

Stories Without Words

In “Stories Without Words”, I wanted to bring attention to music that tells a story, and in so doing create a narrative arc using the connections between each piece. Stories Without Words features a journey across Europe, great love stories between artists and composers, a little opera, the world’s most famous storyteller, murderous mermaids, and ends with a fiery Polish dance.

Isolde’s dramatic death scene, the “Liebestod”, or Love-Death”, the end of Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde.