Commissioned by

The Graham Sommer Competition for Young Composers.
Winner of the People’s Choice Award.

World Premiere

Ensemble Paramirabo
Jeffrey Stonehouse, flute
Gwénaëlle Ratouit, clarinet
Hubert Brizard, violin
Viviane Gosselin, cello
Krystina Marcoux, percussion
Pamela Reimer, piano

Tanna Schulich Hall
McGill University
Montréal, QC, Canada
May 18, 2025

Program Note

Little Chamber Concerto is a vehicle for the six musicians to each display their powers of expression and virtuosity.

I wrote the first movement, “My Soul Wrought Bare” during my 97-year-old grandfather’s last week of life. It is both a lament and celebration of life. I wrote the second movement, “Sometimes The World Moves Too Fast” in early 2025, a period in which it felt like the world was changing at an alarming rate. As such, the music is at times menacing, magnificent, militant, manic–and always relentlessly fast.

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