Performed by the Liverpool Oboe Quintet, May 2018
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Performed at Bowdoin 2018 by Anite Stroh and Nina Wong.
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Performed at Bowdoin 2018 by David Alexander at the Bowdoin Museum of Art, July 28th 2018.
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Frechilla-Zuloaga International Piano Prize winner Ryan Reilly performs "Étude: Shattered Hands" at the 2018 Bowdoin International Festival.
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Performed at Bowdoin 2018 as part of the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, June 2018
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Performed as part of the 3rd Momenta Festival Michael Small (b. 1988): White Space - Meditation on Saenredam (2015). Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin Dixon Place Theater, NYC recorded live 10-1-17 www.momentaquartet.com
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Michiko Theurer performs my three miniatures from the multi-artform project Circling the Waves. This work was recorded in May 2017, and has since received five further performances, four with Michiko, and with Anite Stroh at Bowdoin.
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Performed here by the American Composers' Orchestra, conducted by George Manahan. Eastern Point is a short orchestral study based on the late seascapes of Winslow Homer.
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In June 2016, Michael was a Composition Fellow at the Copland House’s “CULTIVATE” program mentored by Derek Bermel. While there he worked on a short piece for clarinet, violin, cello and piano called “the sky a silver” - a title from e.e. cummings.
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Michael’s 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize resulted in a commission for a solo violin piece for BBC Music Magazine Award winner Fenella Humphreys, and premiered at the Presteigne Festival. This recording is from the fourth performance of the work, at the University of Liverpool. White Space has now been performed seven times in the UK and US, including a 2016 performance in the National Galleries in Edinburgh, in front of a painting by Saenredam who inspired the piece.
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The Momenta Quartet performs my Memory Palace at their 2nd Momenta Quartet in New York in 2015. This recording was subsequently featured on WFMT’s Relevant Tones in June 2017.
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Andrew Zhou performs Hasegawa Sketch at Cornell. This piece was prompted by Hasegawa’s “Pine Trees” - which may be one of the earliest known paintings to feature solely a landscape, devoid of any figures.
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Chris Kim and the Cornell Festival Chamber Orchestra perform Visible World at Cornell in April 2015. Visible World was inspired by Samuel van Hoogstraten’s “perspective boxes”.
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain is performed here by Elizabeth Lyon (cello) and Ryan McCullough (piano) at Cornell. Inspired by Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, I was the shadow of the waxwing slain is a surreal narrative about dreams, flight, and maniacal hallucinations. It has received several performances including one at Aspen in the summer of 2015.
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