Trace
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Trace
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Melissa Hui
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Trace was commissioned by flutist Marya Martin for the Flute Book for the 21st Century project as part of Meet The Composers, Inc.'s, New Music New Donors initiative. Ms. Martin’s objective was to create a collection of eight diverse contemporary works that would introduce pre-professional students to new techniques and expressions.
This work traces the evolution of two musical materials in each of the instruments within a suspended space, or "ma," the Japanese sense of space and silence that is as integral to the music as the events that envelope it.
Now published as part of Theodore Presser's "Eight Visions” anthology for flute and piano, the collection is also available on Naxos, as recorded by flutist Marya Martin. The publication was recently selected by the National Flute Association as one of the winners of its Newly Published Music Competition.
Melissa Hui