Sonic Grace
Our Sonic Grace audio blog is a place where musicians and composers tell us about a piece of music that changed everything.
Alex Matterson - The Banshee for piano strings by Henry Cowell
I first heard Henry Cowell’s The Banshee when I was still in highschool. I remember falling down some long winded YouTube rabbit hole when I…
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Steven Webb - Hitchcock Études (2010) by Nicole Lizée
As a young composer, the moment I heard Nicole Lizée’s Hitchcock Études (2010) was a revelatory experience. It was a time in my life when…
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Alice Ping Yee Ho 何冰頤 - Traces for solo piano by Tan Dun
As a young composer with ambitions to become a pianist specializing in contemporary music in the 1990s, I had the rare opportunity to premiere Tan…
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Pamela Reimer - Nataraja (1983) for flute/piccolo and piano by Jonathan Harvey
I became aware of Jonathan Harvey’s Nataraja (1983), for flute/piccolo and piano, during my doctoral studies, which focussed on ‘theatrical’ piano repertoire, that is, solo…
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Sandeep Bhagwati - Killmayer's Quiet Beauty
First sponsored a hundred years ago by a local prince, the Donaueschingen Festival in the Germany’s Black Forest was the first official festival of “New…
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Anthony R. Green - Sketches Set 7 by Ed Bland
In my teens, I often listened to CDs from my local library. One such CD, Black Diamonds from pianist Althea Waites, concluded with this incredible piece from…
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Lina Cao - "Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra" by Tan Dun (譚盾)
When I was a student in high school, I visited a small town called Zhujiajiao located near Shanghai. There was a place there called "Shui…
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Andrew Staniland - Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies
Of all the contemporary repertoire that I encountered as a student in my early education, Eight Songs really stood out. It was just SO weird,…
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