solo piano [5'30"] 2017. Commissioner: Stephen De Pledge Funder: Creative New Zealand and NZ On Air Recording: RNZ Concert & SOUNZ Premiere: New Zealand International Festival, 27 February 2018 [audio mp3="https://www.julietpalmer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/burl.mp3"][/audio] Program note: Of all the movements in J.S. Bach's Partita no.3 in A minor, it's the burlesca that speaks most compellingly to me. I love its obsessive ornamentation and the...
imaginary composition of indeterminate duration, 2020. Imagined Compositions (2020) by of-the-now Commission: Decolonial Imaginings series produced by of-the-now with the Vancouver Foundation and the Canadian Music Centre BC region, October 2020 Excerpt: "Come with me to the edge of the tracks, through the rotting wood and rusting metal of the train turntable, where under the Manitoba maples and aspens...
for violin, shamisen, voice, bass koto, percussion, piano & & video projection [28′] 2019. [embed]https://vimeo.com/844276884[/embed] Funding: The Canada Council for the Arts Premiere: Thin Edge New Music Collective & Urbanvessel. Ongaku Festival, September 22, 2019 at 918 Bathurst, Toronto Ukiyo, floating world is a poetic contemplation of the detritus of our disposable economy, inspired by improvisations with marine plastic...
vn & pno [11'] 2019. 11 Frames by Andrew Beer | Sarah Watkins Commissioner: Sara Watkins Funder: The Toronto Arts Council Recording: 11 Frames (Rattle Records D093 2019) with Sara Watkins piano & Andrew Beer violin Program note: small excesses is the name of the I Ching hexagram no. 62: “flying birds leave behind their sound.” The composition was initially inspired by...