Into a Woman's Lunacy - for soprano (2021) - 8'30''
*This work was awarded the second prize of the World Championship in Composition by the Franz Schubert Conservatory in 2022, and the second prize of the World
Championship in Music Art by the Academia Musica of Vienna in 2021
Championship in Music Art by the Academia Musica of Vienna in 2021
Blackmud - for contralto and piano (2020) - 4'
Commissioned by Art Song Lab (2020)
Poem by Kim Trainor Lynne McMurtry, contralto Alison d’Amato, piano |
About Solitude - song cycle - for soprano and piano (2016-2019) - 20'
Peiqi Huang, soprano
Yi-Ning Lo, piano |
Mvt. 1 - Solitude I - 0'00''
Mvt. 3 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree - 3'19'' Mvt. 5 - Solitude II - 6'50'' Mvt. 7 - Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude - 12'10'' Mvt. 9 - Alone - 15'17'' |
This song cycle uses five different poems by Anna Akhmatova, William Butler Yeats, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Edgar Allan Poe, with four Matsuo Basho's haikus inserted between them. Performer can choose to perform all of them (including the haikus) consecutively, or independently perform any number of them from the five poems in any order without the haikus.
1. Solitude I
2. The Old Pond
3. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
4. Shaking the Grave
5. Solitude II
6. On This Road
7. Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude
8. Won’t You Come and See
9. Alone
1. Solitude I
2. The Old Pond
3. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
4. Shaking the Grave
5. Solitude II
6. On This Road
7. Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude
8. Won’t You Come and See
9. Alone