PROGRAM NOTE & PREMIERE HISTORY

“So, like a child after its mother, I flutter.” - Sappho

‘Awakened Flutters’ is a collection of duos retracing Sappho’s fragments in Ancient Greek where the violin and soprano seamlessly interchange their voices, awakening the new, here and now, bringing this ancient language out of sleeping.

The first five pieces were composed soon after I felt the first flutter of my baby within the womb at the beginning of the pregnancy. The live performance premiered in Laurindo, Brazil (2017) in the Capela Santa Maria, with Kaoko Amano (soprano) and Marianna Oczkowska (violin), just a couple weeks after the birth of my daughter.

Part 2, A Silver Birth, was composed in memory of the birth which happened over a full bright, silvery moon in the middle of a hot Summer.

“The stars about the full moon lose their bright beauty when she, almost full, illumines all earth with silver.” – Sappho

7 March 2022 Awakened Flutters: A Silver Birth Imago Dei Festival, Musiksalon, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien, Ensemble Platypus;
8 March 2020 7:30pm | Awakened Flutters & A Silver Birth | Ensemble Platypus | Reaktor | Vienna International Women’s Day Concert; Kaoko Amano (soprano), Marianna Oczkowska (violin);

14. December 2017 8:00pm | Awakened Flutters | kultum [im Cubus] Graz, IGNM Steiermark Kerstin Gente (soprano), Lorenzo Derinni (violin);

24. August 2017 7:45pm | Awakened Flutters | Ensemble Platypus | Capela Santa Maria Espaço Cultural | Laurindo, Brazil Premiere with Kaoko Amano (soprano), Marianna Oczkowska (violin)

Commissioned/sponsored by Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport, Vienna, Austria