At the Edge of the Body’s Night (2006)

for guitar and soprano

Commissioned by Duo Sureno

At the Edge of the Body’s Night was commissioned premiered by the Duo Sureno, Robert Nathanson, guitar and Nancy King, soprano on March 17th, 2006 at the NPR Radio Hawiaii studio in Honolulu. The piece is a setting of the poems, Seven Poems the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Mark Strand.

Duo Sureno, Rob Nathanson, guitar, Nancy King, soprano.

Audio from the premiere

Nancy King, soprano
Rob Nathanson, guitar.

II and III

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VII

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…Notable performances…

As a 2017 Concerto Competition winner, Fàtima performed the world premiere on July 15, 2017 with the Music Academy of the West Festival orchestra conducted by Matthew Aucoin in Santa Barbara, CA.

Video excerpts from the premiere performance View video of the premiere performance Click here to contact Fàtima Click here to view and purchase score

Think About It

The amount we can endure is directly proportional to what we will gain. Sarah Blondin

We will all fly in our own good time. WN

Ocean Vuong:

“By enduring we earn a place in the world.”

“Its late in the season-which means the winter rose, in full bloom…are suicide notes.”

“They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”

“(But) why can’t the language for creativity be the language of regeneration?”

“Let me stay here until the end, I said to the lord, and we’ll call it even.”

“Let me tie my shadow to your feet and call it friendship, I said to myself.”

“Too much, joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”

Future Events

2020

March 15th-April 15th, Badlands National Park, SD, Artist-in-Residence

June, Canis Lupus, Artaria String Quartet, Bonfire Chamber Music Festival, Grand Rapids, MN

July, 27 Birds, Artaria String Quartet, Lanesboro, MN

2019

January 27th, 27 Birds and Canis Lupus: Lamentation for piano and saxophones and digital acoustics, with Laurent Estoppey, saxophonist, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC.

April 6th, Objets Trouvés for Flute and Piano, Out of Our Minds Chamber Series, Jonathan Borja, flute and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI click here for more info

April 11th, Love poem with a Knife, Pro Musica Concert Series, for two guitars, violin and soprano, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC

May 15th, High On A Mountain, South Point High School, for solo clarinet and symphonic band, Belmont, NC

May 25th, Six Tangos for solo piano, Giacomo Dalla Libera,piano, Teatro alla Specola, Via San Tomaso 3, Padova, Padua, Italy

July 26th, Spiritual Adaptation to Higher Altitudes for Clarinet and Vibraphone, ClarinetFest 2019, Corey Mackey, clarinet and Keith Lienert, vibraphone, Knoxville, KY

November 6th, 7:30 PM, Night of Wolves, with Karyn Quinn, double bass, and Tom Gullion, saxophones, alto flute and bass clarinet, The La Crosse New Music Festival, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

November 11th, Six Preludes for Piano Solo, , Live from WFMT, Martin Jones, piano WFMT Radio in Chicago https://www.wfmt.com/listen/

2018

November 9th, 6 Preludes for Piano, Martin Jones, piano, Radford University, Radford, VA

November 4th, (3pm) Cabaret Songs, Out of Our Minds Chamber Series, Ann Schoenecker, soprano and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

October 12th and 13th, 12:15 PM Canis Lupus, International Wolf Symposium, Minneapolis, MN

October 7th, 7PM Six Tangos for Solo Piano, TheComposerStudio.Com-HouseConcerts, with Tom Gullion, April Dahl, and Bassem Elhassan, Castle La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

April 21 (7:30pm) The Waters are Shaking the Moon, Down to Earth,Out of This World, Ann Schoenecker, soprano and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano. Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

March 22nd (7:30pm) Out of Darkness into Light, UNCW New Music Festival, Univ. of NC, Wilmington, NC

March 18th (3pm) Spiritual Adaptation to Higher Altitudes, Corey Mackey, Clarinet, & Keith Leinert, vibraphone, Brodbeck Hall, Univ. WI, Platteville Performing Arts Center

March 11th (5PM) 3 Tangos, Between Italy and America, Giacomo Dalla Libera, piano, Sala SOSAT, Trento, Italia

2017

October 8th, (6pm) Four Tangos for Piano, Tango Society of Rochester, MN, William Neil, piano, Rochester, MN

September 23rd Premiere of A Feather in a Shell, a cycle of 6 songs on original poems, Paola Velvet, alto, William Neil, piano, Auditorium Convento dei SS Apostoli, Rome, Italy

July 15th (7:30PM) Concerto for Piccolo Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra, Fàtima Boix Canto’, Clarinet, The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA

May 27th (4PM) Prelude No. 3, Tango No. 1, and Nocturne No. 1, Giacomo dalla Libera, pianist
Morley College, London, UK

March 30th, Out of Darkness Into Light,
Pro Musica Ensemble
Cameron Art Museum
Wilmington, NC

2016

December 23rd, 8PMApril 11th, 2015 Project FourthStream Nostras Voces Concert Broadcast
, WFMT Radio in Chicago

November 13th, Project FourthStream CD Release Concert
Letihold Music, La Crosse, WI

November 6th Tango No. 1 for Piano and Clarinet
Mark Tollefsen, piano and Corey Mackey, Clarinet
Viterbo University Recital Hall
La Crosse, WI

September 18th, New Work
Project FourthStream with Issam Rafea, Oud
Benefit Concert for Syrian Refugee
In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

2015

November 1st Twenty Seven Birds, Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano, William Neil, piano and digital acoustics
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL

October 24th Sinfonia delle Gioie, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, La Crosse, WI

June 27th Green,White and Red Concert, William Neil piano,
Accademia della Musica
Santa Sofia d’Epiro, Italy

June 18th Piano Trio “Notte dei Cristalli”, Trio Malipiero, Padua, Italy

April 11th Nostras Voces with Project FourthStream, St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago, IL

2014
November 11th Project FourthStream, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, WI

September 26th Sound Design for Glass
Menagerie, Tandem Theatre Milwaukee, WI

January 27th Notte dei Cristalli, Cadoneghe, Italy

2013
November 26th We All Sing, Citywide Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, St. John’s Catholic Church Charlotte, NC

November 6th Where There is No Autumn, La Crosse, WI

August 25th Tango for Malgosia for guitar and cello, Gargnano, Italy

June 17th – World Premiere of Notte dei Cristalli , Crespano sul Grappa (VI), Italy

March 1-24th Sound Design for Beast on the Moon, In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

February 2013 Twenty Seven Birds with Project FourthStream, Viroqua, WI

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