Sample Recordings
Teaser from Come Closer: Chamber Opera Workshop
Come Closer, which began as a song cycle has been commissioned by Opera 5 as a 100 minute chamber opera which will be premiered in Toronto in June 2025. (See Calendar for details.) Come Closer explores the the grief of losing a sister to addiction.
Come Closer: Songs on Texts by Elizabeth Krehm
Come Closer: Songs on Texts by Elizabeth Krehm is a 35 minute orchestral song cycle which was commissioned by Dawn Davis, Jonathan Krehm, and Dawn Davis. It sets eight poems by the late Elizabeth Krehm ranging from poems of an innocent and imaginative child to a teenager struggling with addiction and feelings of isolation and ends with a prophetic hopeful poem about looking down from the sky.
Threepenny Submarine
Opera 5 and Gazelle Automations
Winner of Opera America’s 2024 Digital Excellence Awards in Opera - Noteworthy Project
Threepenny Submarine
Threepenny Submarine follows junior officers in the Trifecta Fleet, Iona the cockatiel and Lydian the vixen, as they explore the deep sea in Threepenny Submarine near the mysterious Salieri sector. After a scare, they accidentally come across a strange sea creature who sounds like a flute and their adventure begins. Threepenny Submarine Theme Music by Ryan Trew This episode features the music of Ryan Trew composed for this episode.
Watch the whole series at www.threepennysubmarine.com
Starlike
Starlike was commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2010 Olympic Commissioning Project. It was premiered during the 2010 Paralymics in Vancouver. The work is a meditation on the “twinkling points of light” that serve as a broadening source of inspiration and explanation of the human experience. From the theft of the fire by Prometheus to the recent photos of cosmic radiation revealing the age of the universe, the sky has continually heightened our experiences with perspective and provided answers to our deepest questions.
Four Pieces for Flute Ensemble
Four Pieces for Flute Ensemble was commissioned by the Wilfrid Laurier University Flute Octet and has since been performed at the National Flute Association Convention, the Canadian Flute Association Convention, the University of British Columbia and at the Flute Shindig at West Texas A&M University.
Four Pieces for Flute Ensemble featured on Centrediscs recording 8 pieces for 8
Taste
Taste was commissioned by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra. It is a musical presentation of each of the four basic human physiological tastes: bitter, sour, sweet and salty. Drawing upon the physical properties and emotional associations of each taste, this work connects the senses of taste and hearing through musical form, texture, rhythm and pitch. As each physical taste is distinct, this piece incorporates a diversity of styles among the different movements, assisting in the depiction of mood and ultimately evoking a suggestion of different musical and aesthetic “tastes.”
Four Detuned Pianos
This piece was featured as part of the Westcoast Composer Symposium. It requires three regular pianos and one piano tuned a quarter-tone lower than standard concert pitch. The instruments chosen for first three “in tune” pianos were ordered in terms of tone-quality and approximately when they were most recently tuned by a technician. The fidelity of intonation within the piece degrades as each new piano enters and the piece unfolds.