MODART provides emerging compsoers with the opportunity to develop a new work for vocal ensemble and receive a public performance by the Song Company
MODART
MODART is a professional development project that provides opportunities for emerging composers to develop works for vocal ensemble, and which then receive public performance by The Song Company.
Biography: Alison Duncan
Alison Duncan has studied with Eric Gross, Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards and is currently undertaking a Masters degree with Anne Boyd. Her original submission for ModArt03 was performed in February and other works of her’s have been performed by soloists such as pianist Clemens Leske and oboist Anna Rodger. She is active as an arranger and orchestrator and regularly composes and performs works for weddings and church services.
Program Notes: Psalm
This poem by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, a Jewish American poet, comes from her poetry volume The Volcano Sequence, 2002. I enjoyed the poem’s references to phrases and imagery from the Biblical psalms and was affected by its tone of honesty and intimacy, which is similar to many of the Biblical psalms. My musical setting attempts to emphasise the emotional journey of the poem.
