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For Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2025), duration: 7’
‘Aubade of a Broken Sky’ was written as a reaction to a similarly titled poem by Ocean Vuong – ‘Aubade of a Burning City’. I was struck not only by his evocation of the Vietnam War, but by the visceral, raw quality of his writing. He often places pleasure and pain side by side, blurring the lines between the two in an unbearable way. Similarly, the photography of Peter Hujar – specifically the queer-centered collection ‘Orgasmic Man’ – blurs a similar line. You are unsure whether the subjects of the work are in pleasure or in pain. Yet you know in both cases that through being a witness to the art, you’re trespassing on something intimate. My own work reacted to this – to how closely these innermost feelings sit to one another. This work was first performed on the 10th of October by Ensemble Liaison at the Athenaeum Club, winning the 2025 Athenaeum Club Composition Competition.
For Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2025), duration: 7’
‘Aubade of a Broken Sky’ was written as a reaction to a similarly titled poem by Ocean Vuong – ‘Aubade of a Burning City’. I was struck not only by his evocation of the Vietnam War, but by the visceral, raw quality of his writing. He often places pleasure and pain side by side, blurring the lines between the two in an unbearable way. Similarly, the photography of Peter Hujar – specifically the queer-centered collection ‘Orgasmic Man’ – blurs a similar line. You are unsure whether the subjects of the work are in pleasure or in pain. Yet you know in both cases that through being a witness to the art, you’re trespassing on something intimate. My own work reacted to this – to how closely these innermost feelings sit to one another. This work was first performed on the 10th of October by Ensemble Liaison at the Athenaeum Club, winning the 2025 Athenaeum Club Composition Competition.