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MISSA LAUDATO SI’ (2023-25)

Four Excerpts from MISSA LAUDATO SI’ for for Six Singers, SATB Chorus, Treble Chorus, and 12 Instruments
World premiere, In conjunction with The EcoVoice Project, Ignatian Voices, University Singers, and University Chorale
March 15, 2025, Jo Ann Rooney Hall, Loyola Universich Chicago




TIMESTORY, Book I: An Astropastoral (2020-21)


1. Motuum Cælestium
2. Star  flies         over                 dark                            matter (at 9:56)

Commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago
The Grossman Ensemble, Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, December 3 2021




A finite island in the infinite ocean (2020)

2021 Fromm Players at Harvard Co-curated by Miranda Cuckson and Anne Shreffler
Streamed on Harvard's Music Department YouTube Channel, April 2021




Le Tombeau de Harvey (2018 rev. 2019)

Live recording from the world premiere of the full/revised version:
"Callithumpian Consort: Karchin, Murail, Chacon, Rădulescu, Lee, and Montgomery"
Ariel Mo, piano, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, US, January 18, 2022




"Quaerendo Invenietis" from Unending Rose (2017-19 rev. 2021)

“Quaerendo Invenietis,” first movement from Unending Rose
Nov 2018, Jupiter Quartet, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, US





On a winter’s night a traveller [The Deeply Learned Clavier] (2022-23 rev. 2025)

Live recording from the premiere, 2023 ver. (ca. 30 min.)
April 29, 2024 at 8:00 PM (ET), Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston




"Gleichsam auf einer geistigen Leiter" from Goethe's Garden (2016-17)

Scoring: two pianos tuned in a quarter-tone apart
Hanah Choi and Hanqian Zhu, piano 18th Annual 21st Century Piano Competition Concert, February 10, 2017
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts




RESEARCH


A Thousand Bells: Acoustical Implementation of Bell Spectra Using the Finite Element Method and Its Compositional Realization (DMA dissertation, deposited in September 2020)


31 FEM (Finite Element Method) Bell sounds are now available to listen to in the Research section:


Bell 002–an ideally optimized bell
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 15/8, 9/7, 3/2, 7/4
Object function value = 0.0000017053


Bell 023–a non-octave bell with just major 7th prime with “pure” beatings
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 16/15, 14/6, 16/11, 15/4
Object function value = 0.0013977


Bell 013–the bell sound material that is used in TIMESTORY, "Overtone Bell"
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 15/8, 10/4, 3/2, 7/4
Object function value = 0.000033162
 


Lehr-Bell 001–a traditional minor-3rd bell from the undertone series
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 9/5, 6/5, 3/2, 4
Object function value = 0.000033162




MEDIA



A finite island in the infinite ocean for solo violin, Miranda Cuckson
Fromm Concerts online at Harvard, April 16, 2021

Video Interview with Anne Shreffler and Miranda Cuckson,
Fromm Concerts online at Harvard, April 16, 2021


Le Tombeau de Harvey for solo piano, Ariel Mo
Live recording from the world premiere
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, January 2022

Le Tombeau de Harvey for solo piano, Balázs KÁLVIN, Bartók World Competition (first half only)
Finalist Gala ConcertGrand Hall, Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary, Nov 2018


Lessons on Light and Darkness for solo piano, Eugenia Jeong
Concert Stream – SOUND/SITES, A co-presentation of UChicago Presents and the Department of Music, Nov 2021

“Quaerendo Invenietis,” first movement from Unending Rose for string quartet
Nov 2018, Jupiter Quartet, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, US



Goethe's Garden for 2 pianos tuned a quarter tone apart
V. gleichsam auf einer geistigen Leiter–as on a spiritual ladder
The 21st Century Piano Competition Concert, Hanah Choi / Hanqian Zhu, piano, Krannert Center, Feb 2017

On Goethe's Garden
36 min. video lecture-presentation on Goethe's Garden, May 2021


Unsmeared, Like a Bodiless Horn for horn and cello
Matthew Oliphant, horn, Hannah Collins, cello
Commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago, Mar 2021


On a winter’s night a traveller performed by Ariel Mo
Live recording, Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, April 2024