Rachel C. Walker

XelmYa+ – points of return

03/10/2020 RCW

Online concert tonight with XelmYa, including the EU premiere of the alto recorder solo I wrote for Sylvia:

Full program:

XelmYa+ – Freddi Börnchen, oboe & Sarah Saviet, violin & Sylvia Hinz, recorder

Scramble (1971) – Simone Forti (*1935, US)
Lágrimas de sol (2018) para oboe EUA – Melissa Vargas Franco (*1980, CO)
undone (2020)*** for violin solo UA – Soosan Lolavar (*1987, IR/UK)
Points of return (2018)** for alto recorder solo EUA – Rachel C. Walker (*1994, US)
decessio (2019)* – Jeanne Strieder (*1980, DE)

* for XelmYa+, ** for Sylvia Hinz, *** for Sarah Saviet

Beiguan rehearsal

21/09/2020 RCW

A photo from the rehearsal earlier today with Liu Yu-Hsiu and Li Chi-Chien, who will premiere The space in between for two Beiguan musicians and electronics on the 23rd during the opening concert of the Kuandu Arts Festival.

Autumn wrote an introduction to her text and the piece here.

Live Concert

28/07/2020 RCW

Pianist Humay Gasimzade gave an online concert last weekend:

The full program was:

Turkar Gasimzada: Dhikr for piano and live electronics (2016)
Ben Damann: The Baby Duck in You Has Died for piano and electronics (2020)
Ka Hei Cheng: The Engulfing Turbulence for piano and electronics (2020) – premiere
Julius Eastman: Piano II- 2nd movement (1986)
Rachel Walker: Fú’ōu (2016)
Brian Ferneyhough: Lemma Icon Epigram (1981)

Frühling

21/07/202028/07/2020 RCW

I haven’t made an update for a little bit; here is some of what I’ve been wrapped up in the meantime.

I spent time this Spring finishing a work for Ensemble Adapter (for piccolo, bass clarinet, prepared harp, prepared xylophone)…

…and also a piece for two Beiguan 北管 musicians (voice/percussion, voice/sanxian) and electronics, which will premiere at the end of September in Taipei.

Both are with text from Autumn Tsai.

Beiguan brainstorm

28/02/2020 RCW

I spent the day at the Sprengel Museum with Autumn, brainstorming over our new work for Beiguan ensemble and electronics which will premiere there in November of this year.

浮沤 in Regensburg

24/01/2020 RCW

A few photos from pianist Judith Goetze’s performance of 浮沤 (2016) during the Tage Neuer Musik Regensburg 2020:

Beiguan workshop / Regensburg performance

21/01/2020 RCW

A few photos from last week’s workshop in Hannover with Ensemble Water-Stage from Taipei:

And the poster for tonight’s concert during the Tage Neuer Musik Regensburg, where pianist Judith Goetze is performing 浮沤 (2016):

Only for noise (Recording)

06/12/2019 RCW

The recording from Departure Duo‘s premiere in late October:

Photos from Juxtatonal Concert

12/11/2019 RCW

A few photos from Juxtatonal‘s performance of Reverberations last night in Cincinnati:

Photos from Departure Duo premiere

06/11/2019 RCW

A few months ago, I finished a new work for soprano and double bass with text by poet Eleanor Goodman. Departure Duo had commissioned the work, and gave several performances last month in New York and Boston — they are ideal collaborators and were so attentive to the world of the piece.