The wonderful people at MusicSpoke have chosen my Pie Jesu as their “Score of the Week”, and posted a thoughtful review of the work over on their blog. I invite you to read it, when you have the time!
There is a powerful beauty in repetition when it doesn’t cross the line into redundancy. I find it most powerful in musical contexts when…
Source: blog.musicspoke.com/score-of-the-week-pie-jesu-julia-seeholzer-a56bf5d15155
I’ve been waiting to post until my profile went live, and now it that it is, I can! I’m so excited to announce that I’ve recently joined the roster at MusicSpoke. MusicSpoke is a wonderfully innovative sheet music distribution platform created “by musicians, for musicians”. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to promote my scores to a larger network of conductors and performers, and to be part of such a welcoming, talented team. I have two pieces up at the moment, and will add more over the coming months. I hope you will visit my artist profile to see the pieces I have available, and I will keep you posted! I look forward to working with the MusicSpoke community.
Last night, pianist Kristofer Rucinski performed the premiere concert of his Scriabin Response Project, in which he commissioned twelve composers to respond to Alexander Scriabin’s 12 Etudes, Op. 8. While I was not able to attend, I heard that the concert went wonderfully. Not only did Kris perform all 24 pieces, but he memorized them as well! The second part of this project will be a studio album recording– I greatly look forward to hearing the results and sharing them with you.
For now, have a listen to the Scriabin etude to which I was asked to respond:
…And the poster for my individual etude:
