Instrumentation: string quartet
Duration: 12 minutes
Year: 2015
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Program Notes
Breathe (2015) explores in musical terms the various ideas related to breathing, such as representing musically the phrasing of a natural breath to incorporating sounds of breathing along with the string quartet. As a starting point for the composition, I imagined the four members of the quartet becoming an organism that for the most part would move and respire together. Lines converge and blur in a piece where simple gestures and repetition are used to evoke different states of breathing and being.
Listen. Breathe.
Performance History
- February 04, 2016, Cecilia String Quartet
University of Toronto New Music Festival
Walter Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
- November 23, 2017, DMA String Quartet
Doctoral Composition Recital, University of Toronto
Walter Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
- May 24, 2024, Astralis String Quartet
Marda Loop C-Space
Calgary, AB, Canada
Roydon Tse 